Box Score (Rolla, Mo.) – The Missouri S&T Lady Miners held a 13-point lead with 9:32 to play but couldn't hold on as the Missouri-St. Louis Tritons outscored them 35-14 in the final nine-plus minutes to rally for a 83-75 win on Monday evening in Rolla.

The game was back-and-forth for the first 13 minutes as neither team held more than a four point advantage. Caitlyn Moody accounted for 13 of the Tritons (5-8, 1-3 GLVC) 19 points early on keeping them in the contest. S&T (7-5, 2-2 GLVC) began to take control with an 11-4 over a four minute span to build its largest lead of the half at 32-23 with 2:40 to play. Courtney Kemp had four points in the run while Andrea Downs hit a three and Julie Meyer and Brittany Percival each had a bucket.

Both teams shot the ball well in the opening frame as the Tritons shot 43.3 percent (13-of-30) from the floor while the Lady Miners were 12-for-23 (52.2 percent) and made four three's compared to just two for UMSL. S&T shot 10 more free throws than the Tritons did making nine of them compared to just two for the Tritons.

Moody finished with 13 to lead Missouri-St. Louis while Kemp led the Lady Miners with nine in the opening frame.

S&T began the second half strong stretching its lead to double digits on a three by Downs just over a minute in. The Tritons closed to within seven on a lay-up by Moody but the Lady Miners quickly responded with back-to-back buckets by Downs and Kemp to stretch the lead back to 11 with 14:37 remaining.

UMSL cut the lead to 52-46 on a three-pointer by Kelly Carter almost three minutes later, but S&T again had an answer going on a 9-2 run over the next two minutes building its largest lead of the game at 61-48. Meyer had four points in the run while Kemp hit a three and Fareedah Washington buried a jumper.

Missouri-St. Louis began to make its run by burying back-to-back three's by Carter and Kristi White to get back within seven. Washington put the Lady Miners back up by nine with a lay-up before the Tritons rattled off four in a row to get within 63-58 with just over seven minutes remaining.

Hailee Parks made a pair of lay-ups sandwiched around a Kelly Mitchell jumper to keep S&T up 67-60 with 4:34 left. Carter hit another three to cut it to four point game, and then White hit a pair of free throws pulling the Tritons within two, their closest margin of the game since the midway point of the first half.

Parks put the Lady Miners back up by four with a pair of free throws, but UMSL refused to go away cutting it to a one-point game on a three by Mitchell with 2:57 left. Jazmine Bell put S&T up 73-70 with a jumper but 0:10 later Moody had the answer to cut it back to a one point game.

Kemp hit a jumper in the lane pushing the lead back to three with 1:50 to play, but it would be the Lady Miners last points of the night as White buried a three to tie the game with 1:36 to play then Carter put the Tritons ahead for good on a jumper with 0:55 left.

Bell tried to tie the game for the Lady Miners but her jumper was off the mark and S&T was forced to foul down the stretch as UMSL went 6-for-6 at the charity stripe to seal the deal.

The Tritons shot 64.3 percent (18-for-28) in the final stanza were 6-of-9 from behind the three-point line and 11-of-13 at the foul line. Moody had 14 points in the second half to finish with a game-high 27. White tallied 13, Deckard had 13 and Carter finished with 11.

The Lady Miners on the other hand shot 14-of-29 (48.3 percent) but were just 2-for-9 from downtown and 8-of-12 at the foul line.

Kemp finished the night with a career-high 16 points leading five S&T players in double figures. Parks had 12, Downs dropped in 11, while Bell and Meyer had 10 apiece. Percival finished with nine.

The Lady Miners return to action on Thursday evening when they play host to Southern Indiana beginning at 5:30 p.m.