Box Score (St. Louis, Mo.) – The Missouri S&T Lady Miners avenged an earlier loss to Missouri-St. Louis with a 69-56 win at Missouri-St. Louis on Thursday evening. With the victory the Lady Miners clinched second place in the GLVC West Division.

The game started out as a track meet in the first five minutes with each team racing up and down the floor answering each other bucket for bucket. The game was tied at 12 all when S&T (14-12, 8-9 GLVC) went on an 18-5 run to build a 13 point advantage with just over seven minutes left in the opening frame. Andrea Downs and Katelyn Heil got the run going with back-to-back three's; Julie Meyer (Marthasville, Mo./St. Francis Borgia) gave the Lady Miners a double digit lead with a jumper.

The Tritons (10-16, 6-11 GLVC) cut it to nine before S&T finished the half strong 11 of the final 16 points. Brittany Percival hit a pair of three's in the run including one with seven seconds left to give the Lady Miners their biggest lead of the half at 41-25.

S&T finished the frame shooting 54.5 percent (18-of-33) while holding UMSL to only 33 percent (10-for-33) shooting. The Lady Miners had the slight edge on the boards 19-to-16, outscored the Tritons 11-0 in fast break points and in the paint 22-to-14.

Percival had 10 to lead S&T while Meyer dropped in eight and Jazmine Bell had seven. Kelly Mitchell led UMSL with seven points.

The Lady Miners built an 18 point lead five minutes into the second half and would hold that advantage for roughly the next three minutes.

The lead remained at 18 with 13:06 to go in the contest; S&T then went the next seven minutes scoring only two points allowing the Tritons to cut into the lead. The Lady Miner defense withstood further damage by holding UMSL's offense to just 3-of-9 shooting during that stretch.

After a pair of free throws by Meyer extended the lead to 58-44, the Tritons began to climb back into the contest scoring eight straight points to get within 58-52 with less than three minutes to play.

Fareedah Washington gave S&T a spark with five straight points including a fast break layup and ensuing foul shot to extend the lead back to double digits nearly a minute later.

The Lady Miners put the game away at the foul line as Downs hit four straight free throws for a 13 point advantage, then Meyer made a layup making it 69-54 with less than a minute to play.

S&T shot 50 percent (9-of-18) from the floor, but turned it over 15 times and was just 10-for-21 at the foul line. The Tritons shot it a little better making 12-of-29 (41.4 percent) from the floor but was only 2-for-9 from downtown.

Despite its struggles in the second half the Lady Miners still shot 53 percent for the game and held Missouri-St. Louis to 37.3 percent. The Tritons held a slight edge in rebounding 35-33.

Meyer led all scorers with a career-high 19 points. Percival dropped in 10 while Downs and Bell had nine apiece. Heil and Washington chipped in seven each. Hailee Parks finished with nine rebounds.

Hailee Deckard had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Tritons. Mitchell and Kelly Carter finished with nine each while Lindsey Ransome dropped in eight and Kristi White had seven.

S&T closes out the regular season on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Kansas City, Mo., to take on Rockhurst University beginning at 1 p.m.