Box Score The Missouri S&T Lady Miners reached the century mark for the first time in almost a year while the defense held an opponent to its lowest point total in 20 years in its 100-36 victory over Blackburn College on Wednesday night at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. The 64 point margin of victory ranks as the third largest in school history while the 100 points is the sixth highest in the record books and is the 11th time in school history that it topped the century mark.

Blackburn (0-1) scored the first points of the game getting a lay-up off the opening tip from Natalia Gregory for its only lead of the contest. The Lady Miners (2-1) scored the next four points on jumpers by Tamara McCaskill (Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville) and Katie McElrath (Owasso, Okla./Owasso) to take the lead. After a Blackburn jumper tied it up S&T went on a 26-0 run that lasted 7:17 stretching its lead to 30-4. The Lady Miners built their lead to 51-15 at the 1:33 mark before the Beavers went on a 5-2 run to end the half cutting the lead to 33 at the intermission.

S&T got a balanced performance on the offensive end shooting 55 percent (22-of-40) from the floor and connected on 6-of-11 (55 percent) from downtown as 10 different Lady Miners recorded a basket in the half led by McElrath with 10 points.

S&T opened the second half the same way it closed the first one by scoring the first eight points eventually building its lead to 76-25 at the 11:36 mark. It pushed its lead to 60 on a lay-up by Lydia Karlefors (Sunderbyn, Sweden/Lulea Basketgymnasium) at the 2:56 mark and then scored six points in the final minute from Jenny Dorman (Pella, Iowa/Pella) to reach the century mark.

Defensively the Lady Miners held Blackburn to just 4-of-25 (16 percent) from the field in the second half and 23 percent (11-of-47) for the game

The Lady Miners finished the contest with four players in double figures led by McElrath with 16. McCaskill and Lauren Dubbert (Madison, Mo./Madison) had 12 apiece while Dorman finished with 11. In all 12 different players scored for the Lady Miners.