Joplin, Mo. -- The Missouri Southern baseball team tied it up in the ninth and Denver Coffee hit a walk-off homer to lead-off the tenth and the Lions defeated Missouri S&T 9-8 in 10 innings at Warren Turner Field. 

Southern (14-3) tied it in the ninth as Joe Kinder beat out a double-play to score Kearon Redmon. Logan VanWey pitched a perfect top of the tenth, striking out the final batter to set up the tenth and Coffee's long ball. 

VanWey picked up the win to move to 1-0 on the season. Seth Mesey started and went three and two thirds, striking out five and walking none. Joey Reeves threw three and a third, while Jared Flores pitched two innings. 

Jon Leighton had a mammoth home run to left field in the game, while Alec Alvarez and Cory Canterbury drove in a pair of runners each. Mike Million scored twice and Easton Fortuna had two hits with an RBI and a run scored. 

The Miners (3-8) got three hits from Cameron Burk and two from Kaleb Reid. 

Southern started the scoring with a run in the first and after S&T tied it at one in the top of the second, the Lions answered with five runs in the bottom half of the inning. Leighton homered to start the inning, while Fortuna, Alvarez and Canterbury had RBIs in the inning. 

The Miners scored four runs in the fourth to tie it up at six and the Lions answered with an RBI double from Alvarez in the bottom half of the inning to go back ahead 7-6. 

Two more runs for the Miners in the sixth put them on top 8-7 before the Lions' late-inning heroics. 

Southern will be back in action this weekend as the Lions play host to Lindenwood in a three-game MIAA series at Turner Field.