QUINCY, Ill. - The Missouri S&T baseball team concluded its Great Lakes Valley Conference series at Quincy by dropping both ends of a doubleheader Sunday, as the Miners dropped the first game by the score of 11-2 and the second game by a 19-11 count.

Game 1:
 
The Miners (9-10, 1-7 GLVC) fell behind in the opening inning as Quincy's Gino D'Alessio tripled to center and later scored on a sacrifice fly out to center off the bat of Luke Napleton. But in the second, Tommy Ruether (Washington, MO/Washington) tied the game with a solo homer over the right center field wall.
 
In the fourth, Quincy (14-4, 3-1 GLVC) broke the tie on a two-run single by Napleton that scored D'Alessio and Brock Boynton. With the bases loaded and two outs, S&T called upon reliever Matthew Kaiser (St. Louis, MO/Vianney) as he got out of the jam with a fly out.

With the score still at 3-1 heading into the sixth, the Miners loaded the bases but stranded all three runners, then the Hawks broke the game open with an eight-run inning. The scoring started with a Dustin Dupont single that scored two, then Quincy continued to add onto its lead throughout the inning.

S&T scored in the seventh when Nick Krodinger (DeSoto, MO/DeSoto) led off the inning with a walk and scored when Logan Alexander (Olathe, KS/Olathe Northwest) legged out an infield single with two outs in the inning.
 
For the game, six different S&T players recorded one hit as the Hawks outhit S&T 11-6. Starting pitcher Ethan Morrow (Lenexa, KS/Shawnee Mission West), who threw the first 3.2 innings, was charged with the loss. 

Game Two:
 
Ben Belgrave (Cary, IL/Cary-Grove) got his third start of the season for the series finale and retired Quincy's first two hitters on just three pitches. However, the Hawks got on the board as Lance Logsdon doubled and scored on a hit by Nolan Wosman. In the second inning, Logsdon belted a three-run homer to extended Quincy's lead to four.  
 
In S&T's third, Burgess was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, then stole second and advanced to third on a Dakota Sill (Lansing, KS/Lansing) groundout. Burgess would then score on a wild pitch to get S&T on the board. The Miners were not done in the inning, as Tommy Ruether (Washington, MO/Washington) cut the deficit to two on a single that scored Doug Wood (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) and Cole Hampton (Edwardsville, IL/Edwardsville) followed with a hit to bring home Ruether to cut the lead to one.
 
But in the bottom of the frame, QU's Zach Parks increased the lead back to three with a two-run homer and the Hawks got another run in the inning when Joe Huffman scored when Boynton hit into a double play.
 
Brady Voss (Lake St. Louis, MO/Liberty) cut the deficit down to three with a solo home run over the right field wall in the fourth, but Quincy added two runs in their half of the inning on a Huffman double that scored Zach Parks and Logsdon that it 9-4. 
 
S&T kept chipping away, cutting the deficit to three on a two out, two-run RBI double off the bat of Aaron Berkhoff (Colorado Springs, CO/Cheyenne Mountain). In the fifth Quincy increased the lead back to six at 12-6 on a three-run home run from Wosman in the bottom of the frame. The Miners then exploded for five runs in the sixth to get back to within a run.

Wood singled in the first run of the inning and a second run scored on an error on the play.  Garrett Weiner (Alton, IL/Marquette) reached on an error to allow another run to cross the plate, then with the bases loaded, Hampton was hit by a pitch to score Wood to make it 12-10. S&T cut the deficit down to just one when Berkhoff reached on a fielder's choice that scored Weiner. 
 
However, Huffman homered in the bottom of the sixth to extend the Hawk lead back to two, then the Miners missed a scoring chance in the seventh when Burgess led off with a double and Sill followed with a fly ball to right to allow Burgess to advance – but he was called out for leaving early. 

As was the case in game one, Quincy had another big inning late in the contest as it scored six times in the seventh. The Hawks got a home run from Austin Simpson – the last of five hit by the Hawks in the nightcap – then Quincy tacked on five more runs after the homer to close the scoring.

Quincy had a 16-10 advantage in hits in the second game; Wood and Hampton had two hits apiece for the Miners while Wood scored three times. On the mound, S&T used six different pitchers as Nate Kemp (O'Fallon, MO/St. Dominic), Elijah Gross (Lee's Summit, MO/Lee's Summit West) and David Kephart (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley Northwest) recorded two strikeouts each. 
 
Wosman and Huffman had three hits apiece for the Hawks while Logsdon scored four times. 
 
The Miners will host Missouri Southern Tuesday in a single game starting at 2 p.m at the Ballpark at S&T.  
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