EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Playing its sixth game in the last four days, the Miner pitching staff was unable to slow down Southern Illinois Edwardsville's bats Sunday afternoon as the Cougars ended Missouri S&T's season with a 20-8 win.

SIUE scored in six of the eight innings in batted in and scored multiple runs in five of them, banging out 23 hits against four Miner hurlers used in the game.

The Cougars, who entered the game still in contention for a GLVC playoff spot, jumped on Miner starter Caleb Smith for three runs in the first inning, but the Miners tied the score in the second. A leadoff double by Thomas McCormick got things started, then he scored on a one-out single by Eaf Redden. After an SIUE error, Brandon Cogan delivered a sacrifice fly and Owen Madison, who had the go-ahead hit in Saturday's win, tied the score with an RBI single.

SIUE put seven runs on the board in the third to go up 10-3, but the Miners were able to trim that lead down with three runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth.

In the fourth, Madison drove in the first run with an RBI single, then a hit by Andrew Vance and a sacrifice fly by Gerad Fox brought the margin down to four.

S&T drew even closer in the fifth when Cogan doublhed home Redden and Yaimel Javier-Cury, but the Cougars got a single run in the bottom half of the inning and then scored three runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.

Cogan had two hits and three RBI to lead the Miner attack. S&T finished its season at 22-26 overall and 15-17 in the GLVC.