ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's basketball teams will return to the floor before the 2012 calendar year runs out, as the squads will resume their schedules with games over the final two days of the year.

The Lady Miners head to Louisville, Ky., to take part in the Metro Medical Solutions New Year's Classic at Bellarmine University with games on Sunday and Monday afternoons.  The Lady Miners will face Alabama-Huntsville Sunday at 3 p.m. (Central time), then take on Millersville Monday at noon Central before returning home to prepare for the resumption of Great Lakes Valley Conference play on Thursday, Jan. 3 against Wisconsin-Parkside.

Meanwhile, the Miners will play host to Benedictine-Springfield – a first-year program from the NAIA's American Midwest Conference – in a 2 p.m. contest Monday at the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.  It will be the Miners' final non-conference game before they face UW-Parkside on Jan. 3.

Women's Games

Missouri S&T is 4-3 on the season heading into the two-day event and is led in scoring by senior forward Hailee Parks (Sullivan, Mo./Sullivan) with an average of 15.3 points per game.  Parks currently ranks seventh in the GLVC in scoring, fourth in field goal percentage at 56.9 percent for the season and 10^th in rebounding with a team-best 7.9 a game.

S&T is also getting 12.1 points per game from Toni Knar (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein), one of the top three-point shooters in the conference at 45.7 percent.  Knar's 21 treys – or three per game – is second in the GLVC to Southern Indiana's Stephanie Carpenter's mark of 3.1 per contest.  Kyesha Hall (Dodson, La./) is scoring 8.3 points per game and Kylie Cooper (Andover, Kan./Andover) is at 7.4 per contest in the scoring column.

Alabama-Huntsville is 5-5 on the year and is paced by guard Jasmine Hammond, who ranks second in the Gulf South Conference in scoring with an average of 18.4 points per game.   She is one of three Charger players along with Jordan Smith and Halle Jarnagin that have posted a 20-point scoring game for UAH thus far on the season.  Smith is averaging nearly 16 points per game and leads her team in assists with 22.

Millersville comes into the weekend action at 6-1 (the Marauders will face Bellarmine Sunday) and its only loss was a two-point setback to Gannon just before the Christmas break.  Four players are scoring in double figures in a balanced scoring effort for Millersville, led by the 13.6 points per game posted by Carly Gallagher and Aurielle Mosley; the latter ranks in the top 10 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in both scoring and rebounding (8.7 per game).

Men's Game

The Miners are looking to return to the .500 mark – they come into Monday's game at 3-4 on the season – in their last non-conference tilt before GLVC begins for good on Thursday.  MissourI S&T will get back the services of leading scorer Mudi Eruteya, who had to serve a one-game suspension in the Dec. 19 loss to Lindenwood; he comes into the game averaging 13.2 points per contest as well as team highs in rebounding (7.8 per game) and assists with 23.

Nusrath Khan (Morton Grove, Ill./Maine East) is averaging just over nine points per game and Michael Nesbitt (Evansville, Ind./LaLumiere School) is at 8.9 a contest heading into the game.

Benedictine-Springfield brings a 3-9 record into Monday's outing and has won three of its last five since dropping its first seven games of the season.  The Bulldogs are led in scoring by guards Reggie Thomas and Justin Smith, each of whom are averaging 9.4 points per game, while Stephen Shepherd is scoring 8.7 a game to go along with a team-best 5.8 rebounds per contest.

Women's Game Notes: Lady Miners vs. Millersville
Men's Game Notes: Miners vs. Benedictine-Springfield

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Women's Live Stats vs. Millersville
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