Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LIBERTY, Mo. – Missouri S&T returned to the win column on the softball field Thursday afternoon as it took a pair of 1-0 decisions from William Jewell in Great Lakes Valley Conference play.

The Miners captured the first game in the sixth inning and scored their only run in the opening inning of game two, with Sydney Anderson (Elkhart, IA/North Polk) driving home both runs to support the pitching of Bryn Wooldridge (Salisbury, Mo./Salisbury) and Charlye Rowland (Pearcy, Ark./Lake Hamilton).

The Miners will face Rockhurst in a GLVC doubleheader on Friday starting at noon.

Game 1: Missouri S&T 1, William Jewell 0

The Miners and Cardinals battled through five scoreless innings before S&T broke through in the sixth. The inning started when Mackenzie Shields (Kansas City, MO/Platte County) reached on an error and then moved along to second on a wild pitch, then with one out, Trista Grobe (DeSoto, MO/DeSoto) reached on an infield single.

Jewell elected to walk Wooldridge intentionally to load the bases, but Anderson hit a sacrifice fly to score Shields with the go-ahead run.

The Cardinals got a double from Alexis Almejo in the bottom of the sixth, but the Miners cut her down at third on a ground ball and got out of the inning with the lead.

Wooldridge, who got the win in the circle in the opener, finished her four-hit complete game shutout by retiring Jewell in order in the seventh.  She finished with 10 strikeouts without issuing a walk along the way.

S&T had four hits in game one as well, which came from Grobe, Wooldridge, Anderson and Natalie Cuadras (Huntington Beach, CA/Edison).

Game 2: Missouri S&T 1, William Jewell 0

The Miners jumped on top in the opening inning of the second game on another run driven in by Anderson, as she delivered a two-out double to score Grobe.

That would turn out to be the only run Rowland would need in the circle, as she completed the double shutout with a three-hitter and struck out 11 along the way.  The Cardinals threatened in the bottom of the seventh after a double by Lexi Lopez put the tying and winning runs on base with one out, but Rowland got a pop up and a fly out to end the game.

Anderson had two of the Miners' six hits in the nightcap.