Somers, Wis.- The UW-Parkside baseball team went toe-to-toe with 22^nd-ranked Missouri S&T on Sunday afternoon but in the end it was the Miners who found a way to finish out both ends of a doubleheader.  The Rangers put together a big rally before falling in game one, 9-7 in 13 innings. The Miners broke through in game two and fought off another Parkside comeback for a 6-3 win.
 
The Rangers moved to .500 overall and in the league at 10-10 and 4-4. Missouri S&T improved to 15-4 overall and 5-1 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Parkside will now play the remainder of its conference games against its own division beginning next weekend at home versus the University of Indianapolis.
 
Below are recaps of Sunday's games.
 
Game One (Box Score)
The Miners appeared to be in control of the opener as they took a 5-0 lead into the seventh inning. To that point the Rangers had collected just three hits and saw their last ten batters retired by Chris Bowe.
 
That changed after the seventh-inning stretch when Mike Anderson and Cody Gilles singled to start the comeback. Corey Stonelake then rolled one down the third base line that came to rest on the chalk to load the bases.
 
Tyler Gieseking got Parkside on the board with a fielder's choice grounder. Chris Glynn followed with a sac fly and the score was 5-2.
 
The Rangers then put up a five-spot in the eighth to steal the lead. Ben Korman reached on an infield and with one out was safe at second when Eric Abel's grounder was thrown away. Anderson then walked to load the bases and put the pressure on the Miners.
 
Gilles followed that with a tough hop grounder to second that was mishandled, cutting the lead to two. Stonelake drove in another run with a base hit to right while keeping the bases juiced.
 
Gieseking tied the game up with a grounder to second and moving everyone up 90 feet. Glynn completed the rally with a liner to center field to score two runs and give the Rangers their first lead of the game.
 
But the Miners wouldn't go away starting the top of the ninth a pair of singles. After a sacrifice bunt, Michael Lockett ripped a single to center to tie the game.
 
Josh Geiger pitched out of a tenth inning jam but the Miners finally broke through in the 13^th inning with a couple of doubles and a base hit to score two.
 
The Ranger offense was unable to even things up as Missouri S&T pitchers retired 15 of the final 16 hitters.
 
Stonelake and Glynn led the offense with two hits. Glynn also had three RBI while Gieseking had two.
 
Game Two (Box Score)
Missouri S&T once again opened up a 5-0 lead before the Rangers began to fight back. They scored four in the fifth inning, two of which were unearned, to a build the cushion.

The Rangers trimmed two off the deficit when John Brennan doubled with two outs in the fifth. That scored Gieseking who had singled and Sean Lena who walked.
 
They added another in the sixth when Gieseking grounded out to drive in Anderson. The Rangers left a runner on third, one of three stranded in scoring position.
 
Missouri S&T added an insurance run in the seventh and tossed a 1-2-3 ninth to secure the win.
 
Gieseking had two of Parkside's four hits in the game. The Rangers also hurt themselves with four defensive miscues.
 
UW-Parkside will continue its' ten game home stand with a pair of doubleheaders next weekend. They'll host Indianapolis on Saturday and Sunday beginning at noon. The Greyhounds split a doubleheader with William Jewell on Sunday.