Box Score MARION, Ill. – Missouri S&T's baseball team was two outs away from knocking off the top seed at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, but Quincy scored twice to knock off the Miners 9-8 in the opening round contest at Mtn Dew Park.

The seventh-ranked Hawks (41-9) took advantage of four walks in the bottom of the ninth, scoring the winning run on the last of them to the conference's Player of the Year, Luke Napleton, to complete the comeback after trailing 8-7 heading into their last at-bat.

S&T (24-23) grabbed the early lead when Dakota Sill (Lansing, KS/Lansing) reached base with a chopper over the third basemen's head; he advanced to third on a single to left from Doug Wood (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) and scored when Cole Hampton (Edwardsville, IL/Edwardsville) ripped an RBI double down the right field line.  Wood ended up at third on Hampton's double and came in to score when Sam Monroe (Moline, Ill./Moline) followed with a groundout.

The Miners extended their lead to 5-0 two innings later when Chase Burgess (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley West) was hit by a pitch and Wood singled ahead of a three-run homer by Hampton. The home run, the 12th of the season for Hampton, allowed him to tie Michael Ward for the most in a season in program history.
 
In the bottom of the inning, the Hawks got two of those runs back on back-to-back solo homers from Napleton and Lance Logsdon before tying the game with three runs in the fourth. An error on a bunt allowed the first two runs to score, then Logsdon tied the game at five with an RBI double to left that scored Brock Boynton.

The Miners regained the lead in the fifth on a two-out double to center from Hampton and an error on a ball off the bat of Monroe that allowed Hampton to score. QU tied the game again in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI double by Ben Dahlof that scored Boynton. 

Quincy took its first lead of the game in the seventh on a fielder's choice that allowed Zach Parks to score, but the Miners responded in the eighth to regain the lead without the benefit of a hit.  S&T loaded the bases against Quincy reliever Chase Gockel on three consecutive walks drawn by Monroe, Garrett Weiner (Alton, IL/Marquette) and Tommy Ruether (Washington, MO/Washington), then knotted up the score when Michael Hughes (St. Clair, MO/St. Clair) was hit by a pitch.
 
With two outs and the bases still loaded, Burgess was awarded catcher's interference on Napleton that brought Weiner across the plate with the go-ahead run.

The Miners escaped a two-on, one-out jam in the eighth when David Kephart (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley Northwest) got Austin Simpson hit into a double play, then turned to Dylan Mollett (St. Louis, MO/Oakville) to hold onto the lead in the ninth. Mollett struck out pinch-hitter Gino D'Alessio to start the inning, but issued a pair of walks ahead of a hit by Boynton to tie the score. After a walk drawn by Dupont that loaded the bases, Mollett walked Napleton that scored Dahlof to force in the game-ending run.
 
Quincy outhit the Miners 13-8 in the game; Hampton had three of the S&T hits and drove in four runs. Matthew Kaiser (St. Louis, MO/Vianney) got the start on the mound and struck out six in his five innings.
 
The Miners will face Lewis in an elimination game Friday at 12:30 p.m.