OWENSBORO, Ky. -- After dropping the first two games of the weekend series at Kentucky Wesleyan, the Miners won the final game by taking a 4-3 decision in 12 innings Sunday afternoon.

Brandon Cogan's single in the 12th scored Robbie Martin with the go-ahead run as the Miners overcame the Panthers' ninth inning rally that sent the contest into extra innings. Martin had doubled to open the inning, then moved to third on Owen Madison's sacrifice bunt. Cogan followed that with the hit to score him.

Matt Campbell, who entered the game in the ninth, got the Panthers out in order in the bottom of the 12th to get the win in relief. He allowed just one hit in 3 2/3 innings of work, but was victimized by an error in the bottom of the ninth that allowed the tying run to score.

UMR scored twice in the opening inning when Nick Zurweller homered with two outs and Eaf Redden singled home Thomas McCormick, who tripled after Zurweller's home run.

Kentucky Wesleyan got a run back in the bottom of the first, but that was all it would get off of UMR starter Stephen Read through the first eight innings. Read scattered nine hits, but left seven Panthers on base while he was in the game.

The Miners added a run in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Martin and that 3-1 lead held up until the ninth, when the Panthers started a rally with one out. An RBI double by Steven Lee cut the lead to one, then a two-out error allowed pinch-runner Tyler Chew to score the tying run. Another error kept the inning alive before Campbell got Tim Wimsatt to ground a ball back to him to close the inning.

Yaimel Javier-Cury had three hits for the Miners (9-12, 2-9 Great Lakes Valley Conference), while McCormick and Martin had two hits each.

Saturday's games

The Miners dropped a pair of one-run contests to the Panthers Saturday, as KWC rallied in the ninth for a 6-5 win in game one followed by a 1-0 victory in a pitcher's dual in the second game.

UMR led for nearly the entire game in the opener, scoring twice in the first and fourth innings to take a 4-0 lead.

In the first, the Miners got a two-run double from McCormick to take the early lead, then got a successful squeeze bunt from Josh Hanrahan and an RBI double from Cody Bass to go up 4-0 through four innings.

The Panthers got single runs off starter Brandon Cogan in the fifth and sixth innings, then tied the game off reliever Brian Rickert in the seventh.

UMR regained the lead in the top of the ninth as Gerad Fox delivered a two-out single to score Zurweller, who walked to start the inning.

However, KWC was able to rally against Andy Draper, who had retired the Panthers in order in the eighth. A bases loaded single by Matt Martin tied the game, then the Panthers won it on a hit by Wimsatt.

UMR had 11 hits in game one, with five different players getting two apiece.

The nightcap turned into a pitcher's dual between UMR's Tavish Hill and KWC's Dean Futrell, as Hill gave up just four hits in six innings of work but was outpitched by Futrell, who shut out the Miners on just two singles.

The only run of the game came via a sacrifice fly by Neil Holmes in the second inning. UMR didn't get its first hit until the fifth when Zurweller singled with one out; that inning provided the Miners their best scoring chance as they loaded the bases but couldn't get a run across.

The Miners will play host to Southern Indiana in a GLVC doubleheader Wednesday starting at noon at the UMR Baseball Field.