ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's basketball teams will return to the home court Thursday night in their final tune-ups before the start of Great Lakes Valley Conference play, as the Miners and Lady Miners will host Westminster College in a doubleheader at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

The Lady Miners' contest with the Blue Jays will get underway at 5:30 p.m., followed by the men's tilt at 7:30 p.m.

The Lady Miners will look to snap a three-game losing streak against a Blue Jay squad that has split its first two outings of the 2012-13 campaign.  Two of the three S&T losses, however, have come to teams that are currently ranked or received votes in the latest USA Today/WBCA Division II rankings.

Hailee Parks (Sullivan, Mo./Sullivan) leads the Lady Miners in scoring with an average of 17.8 points per game and is coming off a performance at the Rollins Thanksgiving Classic where she earned all-tournament honors by averaging 22.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game.  Parks also scored the 1,000^th point of her Lady Miner career in Saturday's game against then No. 4-ranked Rollins.

Toni Knar (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) is also scoring in double figures for S&T with an average of 12 points per game and is shooting 40 percent from three-point range.

Westminster has three players averaging in double figures over its first two contests of the year, as Leigh Ann Lutz is scoring 19.5 points a game and Hannah Kloster has scored 16 per outing.  The Blue Jays have two players on their active roster with ties to the local area in sophomore forwards Kayla Walters (St. James) and Danielle Williams (Waynesville).

In the men's game to follow, the Miners (1-2) will face a Westminster squad that is undefeated through four games.  The Blue Jays are shooting 52.8 percent as a team on the season – and at a 43.8 percent mark from three-point range – while scoring better than 80 points per game.  Westminster has outscored its foes by nearly 20 points per game.

Joe James leads a contingent of three Blue Jays in double figures with an average of 13.5 points per game.  Westminster's men's squad also has a former Rolla High School player on its active roster in freshman guard Jay Zalis, who is averaging just over four points per game.

The Miners are led in scoring by junior guard Mudi Eruteya, who is averaging 14.3 points a game and had a season-high 22 points in S&T's most recent home contest, a 75-61 win over Southwest Baptist on Nov. 17.  Nusrath Khan (Morton Grove, Ill./Maine East) is scoring 10 points a game and is coming off his best scoring outing of the year with a 17-point showing last week at Emporia State.

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