MARION, Ill. - The No. 4 seed Lewis University baseball team scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning to take down No. 8 seed Missouri S&T 4-3 Friday (May 12) in a Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament elimination game.

TEAM RECORDS
Lewis 30-22 | Missouri S&T 24-23

SUMMARY
The Miners scored twice in the fifth inning and once in the sixth inning to pull ahead 3-0.

Lewis got on the board in the top of the seventh as Patrick Keaty (South Elgin, Ill./South Elgin) scored an unearned run off the bat of Angelo Cantelo (Blue Island, Ill./Marian Catholic). Kevin Barry (Bartlett, Ill./South Elgin) then lined out to center field, scoring Thomas Fox (Norfolk, Va./Norfolk Christian) to make it a 3-2 game.

That would be the score entering the ninth inning. George Bilecki (Chicago, Ill./Marist) opened the inning with a double. After a strikeout, Michael Alt (Appleton, Wis./Kimberly) singled, advancing Bilecki to third. Cantelo walked, loading the bases. Barry singled, scoring Bilecki to tie the game. Cain Headrick (Custer Park, Ill./Providence Catholic) then drove home the eventual winning run on a fielder's choice, scoring Alt. 

The Miners had one more chance in the bottom of the ninth. They opened the inning with a walk but the runner was picked off by Cantelo. Another walk and a hit by pitch put two runners on with one out as Matt Piento (Indian Head Park, Ill./Lyons) was called in to close the game.

Piento only had to pitch to one batter as he forced a line out and the lead runner was doubled off to end the game.

Alt, Barry and Tony Fleischauer (Joliet, Ill./Joliet Catholic) had two hits each for the Flyers. Matt Helwig (Mokena, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) (2-2) picked up the win in relief, allowing one run on no hits in four innings of relief, striking out five. Piento picked up his third save of the year.

UP NEXT
The Flyers will face the loser of the No. 1 Quincy vs. No. 5 Indianapolis game Saturday at 12:30 p.m.