ROLLA, Mo. — Senior left-hander Eddie Mathis tied the all-time program record for pitching wins and the visiting Bellarmine University baseball team went deep five times in an 11-3 romp over Missouri S&T in the opener before the Miners regrouped for a convincing 15-5 victory in the tail end Saturday in Great Lakes Valley Conference play.

Bellarmine (25-19, 16-13 GLVC) racked up eight homers over the doubleheader, backing Mathis with an impressive show of power in the latter innings of Game 1, but the Miners (27-14, 19-10) pulled away early in Game 2 in securing a split.

Game 1: Bellarmine 11, Missouri S&T 3
In the opener, Mathis and the Knights halted Missouri S&T's seven-game winning streak. In the process, the southpaw tied Willie Yates (1975-79) for the most career pitching wins in program history with 25 after recently becoming the career leader in innings pitched (331.1 and counting). He'd already established himself in second in career strikeouts.

Mathis (7-2) tossed 7.0 innings and allowed two earned runs on seven hits with six strikeouts. The Miners scored once in the second, fourth and seventh, the latter run being unearned, before the reigning GLVC Pitcher of the Year departed. Junior right-hander Anthony Ethington entered to start the eighth and struck out five of the seven batters he faced in 2.0 scoreless innings.

Bellarmine was coming off its first shutout loss of the season, as the Knights fell 4-0 to Quincy in last weekend's series finale. Bellarmine's offense didn't have an encouraging start against the Miners, getting blanked over the first four innings, but the Knights busted out of their funk with 11 runs over the final five frames.

Bellarmine piled up nine extra-base hits. Five of those were home runs. Sophomore shortstop Clayton Mehlbauer launched two of them, including a go-ahead two-run blast in the sixth that gave the Knights a 3-2 lead. Senior right fielder Zac Wiley hit a towering solo shot in the seventh, which wound up as the winning run.

With Bellarmine clinging to a 4-3 lead in the eighth, senior first baseman Tyler Neeley roped a three-run homer to left center. Mehlbauer made it back-to-back long balls, stroking a solo shot to the same area as Neeley. Junior designated hitter Deylen Miley then got in on the act in the ninth, creaming a three-run homer to center.

In addition to his two round-trippers, Mehlbauer doubled in going 3 for 5 with three RBIs. Sophomore left fielder Matt Higgins tripled and doubled while also collecting three hits. Neeley and Miley had two hits and three RBIs each. Senior center fielder Alex Phillips, junior catcher Chris Gambert and sophomore third baseman Jacob Mulcahy also notched two hits apiece.

Mehlbauer bumped his home-run total to three, Wiley to 13, Neeley to 10 and Miley to seven.

Game 2: Missouri S&T 15, Bellarmine 5
An error allowed Missouri S&T's first run to cross the plate, and unfortunately for the Knights, that tone was not only established but maintained in the lopsided loss.

Bellarmine committed four errors in the first three innings, and the Miners built a 10-3 lead after a seven-run third. They'd add three more the next frame to essentially run away with the game. Missouri S&T had 13 hits and the contest ended after seven innings due to the 10-run rule.

Once again, Higgins was a bright spot, hammering his eighth and ninth homers of the season and finishing with three RBIs. Mulcahy added a solo homer, his second of the season. Higgins, Mulcahy and Phillips had two hits each, accounting for all of the team's hits.

The teams will conclude the series with a single game starting at 1 p.m. (ET) Sunday.

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