ROLLA - Drury bounced back from a tough loss in the opener to post a 7-1 victory over Missouri Science and Technology for a split of their Great Lakes Valley Conference baseball doubleheader here on Wednesday.

The Miners held off a strong Drury rally to win the opener 6-5, as the Panthers moved to 12-10-1 overall and 8-5-1 in the GLVC with the day's results. S&T is now 14-12 and 9-6.

The Miners built a 5-0 lead over the first six innings of the nine-inning opening game against usual DU relievers Ryan Wedermyer (0-1) and Brian Quasebarth, while S&T's Blake Stephens (2-0) stymied the Panthers with 6 2/3 shutout innings, allowing just three hits.

But Drury scored four runs in the top of the eighth to make it 5-4, keyed by a two-run triple from Spencer Wilmes. S&T pushed across a run in the eighth for a 6-4 cushion, and the Panthers could add only one more in the ninth - on Luke Tewes' team-leading seventh homer of the season - as the Miners claimed the victory.

Conner Wilson had two of DU's six hits in the opener, while Tyler Bodenstab, Lance Portwood and Nick Ulrich drove in two runs each for the Miners.

But Drury's bats came alive in the seven-inning nightcap, as the Panthers outhit the Miners 12-5 and saw freshmen pitchers Matthew Tipton and Nick Costantino combine to hold S&T to one run and five hits over the first five innings before senior Gage Jacobs came in to pitch the final two innings for his seventh save (tied for third-most in a single season in DU history).

Down 1-0 entering the third, the Panthers took the lead for good in the frame when Jacob Green and Dallas Williams opened with singles and later came around to score on a Tewes sacrifice fly and a Wilson RBI single for the 2-1 advantage.

Drury added two more in the sixth on a Ryan Colombo run-scoring single and a Michael Pfeiffer pinch sacrifce fly, then broke it open with three runs in the seventh on a Wilmes RBI single and a two-run double from freshman Ryan Wadkins.

Costantino (2-0) got the win for DU, surrendering just three hits in his three shutout innings of work after Tipton allowed two hits and an unearned run over the first two.

The Panthers will visit Missouri-St. Louis for a four-game GLVC set with doubleheaders scheduled for 2 p.m. on Friday and noon on Saturday in St. Louis. Drury returns home next Tuesday to entertain Central Missouri in a non-conference doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. at Meador Park.