LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- After dropping its first two conference games of the season Saturday, the UMR baseball team salvaged the final game of its three-game series with Bellarmine by beating the Knights 7-1 Sunday afternoon.

After giving up a run on three hits in the opening inning, Stephen Read shut the door on the Knights over the next seven innings as he gave up just two hits and fanned three without a walk to improve his record to 3-0. Brian Rickert pitched the ninth to finish off the Miners' eighth win of the season in 13 games.

The Miners tied the game in the second on an RBI single by Cody Bass, then took the lead by scoring three times in the third.

Gerad Fox led off the inning with a hit and stole second, then after being sacrificed to third scored on Robbie Martin's infield hit. The MIners then loaded the bases and added to the lead when a passed ball scored Martin. Nick Zurweller followed with an RBI single to make it 4-1.

UMR got two more runs in the fourth when Martin hit a sacrifice fly to score Fox and Joe Montgomery's ground out brought home Thomas McCormick. The Miners got their final tally in the seventh when a throwing error allowed Zurweller, who had stolen third, to come home to score.

Read retired 10 straight hitters in one stretch and allowed only two hitters to reach base from the second through the seventh innings. One of the two reached an an error and was later caught stealing, while the other was erased on a double play.

UMR had 11 hits in the game, with Martin collecting two to go along with his two runs batted in. McCormick, Eaf Redden and Zurweller all had two hits as well.

The Miners (8-5, 1-2 GLVC) will open a five-game homestand Wednesday with a noon doubleheader against Missouri-St. Louis.