OWENSBORO, Ky. -- Playing for the first time in 11 days, the Missouri S&T dropped the first game of Sunday's doubleheader at Kentucky Wesleyan in extra innings before routing the Panthers 9-0 in game two to gain a split of the twinbill.

The Panthers took game one 5-4 in nine innings.

S&T grabbed a 6-0 lead after three innings and then ended the game after six innings after scoring three more runs in the top half of that inning.

The Lady Miners got two runs in the first when Kristen Drage reached on an error with the bases loaded to score a run, then Becca Kueny delivered an RBI single. S&T extended its lead in the second when Emily Tucker drove in a pair of runs with a double and scored herself moments later on a hit by Drage.

Rachel Wilkinson's RBI hit in the third pushed the S&T lead to 6-0, then the Lady Miners put the game away in the sixth with an RBI double by Kueny and a two-run homer off the bat of Coley Naughton.

Ashley Wallingford allowed just three hits over the first five innings to get the win; Drage, who played her prep softball near Owensboro, threw a scoreless sixth to wrap up the game.

Wilkinson, Tucker and Kueny all had three hits for S&T in game two as the Lady Miners banged out 14 hits.

In the first game, the Panthers scored three in the opening inning to take an early lead, but S&T scored single runs in the second and third and took the lead with two runs in the fifth.

Drage got the first of her three hits in the game to start the second and came in to score on a ground out off the bat of Kueny, then Kandi Wieberg scored in the third after a leadoff hit, a stolen base, a ground out and an RBI single by Tucker.

S&T got its first lead of the game in the fifth on a rally that started with a one-out hit by Kelsey Musselman. That hit was followed by another single by Tucker, then Drage doubled to bring home Musselman. Naughton followed that with a successful squeeze bunt that scored Tucker to give S&T a 4-3 lead.

However, the Panthers' Mariel Hamer led off the sixth with a double off Jen O'Hara, then after a sacrifice bunt moved pinch-runner Mindy Woolsey to third, an error with two outs allowed the tying run to score.

The Lady Miners left runners on base in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, leaving two on in the eighth. The Panthers won the game in the bottom of the ninth after a hit by winning pitcher Haleigh Ashworth brought home Gabrielle Simmons, who had reached on an error to start the inning.

The Lady Miners (21-16, 12-6 GLVC) will play at Southern Indiana Monday (2 p.m. start) in a make-up doubleheader from Saturday's postponement. The Eagles lost both ends of their twinbill Sunday to Missouri-St. Louis.