The Miners got a good pitching effort from starter Andrew Page Friday, but couldn't generate enough offense to support his efforts as Rockhurst came away with a 2-1 win in the opening game of the four-game weekend series at the Missouri S&T Baseball Field.
Rockhurst got single runs in the third and seventh innings, which turned out to be all it would need. The Miners closed the gap to one in the ninth on an RBI hit by Yaimel Javier-Cury, but Hawk closer Frank Allen retired the next two hitters to secure the win.
The Hawks scored in the third on a double play with the bases loaded that brought in Nick Troilo, then Rick Pisani delivered a two-out to score Tyler Knust in the seventh.
Page left the game after the seventh after giving up nine hits but striking out eight. Kyle Griffin got the Miners out of a bases loaded, one out jam in the eighth and then stranded two more runners in the ninth as the Hawks left 15 runners on base in the game.
Thomas McCormick led off the ninth with a triple into the right field corner, then scored on a one-out hit by Javier-Cury. However, Allen got a pair of pop-ups to end the rally and send the Miners to 9-13 overall and 3-6 in GLVC play.
Javier-Cury and Drew Davenport had two hits apiece for the Miners, who had seven in the contest.
S&T and Rockhurst (10-15, 4-5 GLVC) will play a doubleheader Saturday at noon, then conclude the series with a single game Sunday.
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