ROLLA, Mo. - After two weekends of Great Lakes Valley Conference play, the Missouri S&T baseball team will return home to the S&T Ballpark and step outside of conference action Wednesday as it hosts the hosts the Lions of Missouri Southern to open a five-game homestand. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.   
 
The Miners (9-10, 1-7 GLVC) enter this midweek contest coming off a weekend series where they dropped three of four at Quincy, a series where Cole Hampton (Edwardsville, IL/Edwardsville) led S&T with seven hits and 10 RBI which included a grand slam in the game one victory. 
 
S&T is led at the plate by Chase Burgess (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley West) with a .349 batting average; he also leads the team with six doubles, 23 runs and 12 stolen bases while also sharing the team lead in hits with Dakota Sill (Lansing, KS/Lansing) with 22. Hampton is batting .327 on the season and Doug Wood (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) leads the squad with 28 RBI and three home runs.
 
Over the weekend series, S&T used 14 different arms on the mound, with Ethan Morrow (Lenexa, KS/Shawnee Mission West) leading the team with 20.2 innings pitched and a team-high 19 strikeouts in five starts. Estin McBroom (Monett, MO/Monett) has pitched 20.1 innings while striking out 18 batters. 
 
The Lions (19-7, 10-3 MIAA) enter the game coming off winning a three-game series over Washburn, taking victories in the first two games before the Ichabods snapped the Lions' six-game win streak with a 10-5 victory in the series finale.
 
Missouri Southern, who was ranked 11th in last week's National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II poll, is led in batting by Nate Mieszkowski with a .414 average as he leads the team with 46 hits and 34 RBI. Garrett Rice is batting .351 and has recorded 39 hits, while on the mound, the Lions are led in innings pitched by Cole Woods with 41.2 innings as he has struck out 45 batters in seven starts. 
 
Another top arm for the Lions is Kyle Moore, who has appeared in ten games and struck out 31 batters while recording two saves in 29.1 innings.