Box Score (Rolla, Mo.) - The Missouri S&T Lady Miners took a break from Great Lakes Valley earning a 71-46 victory over future GLVC member McKendree on Thursday evening at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. The Lady Miners shot 49.2 percent in the contest and improved to 15-6 on the season.

The Bearcats (7-16) scored the first point of the contest for their only lead of the night and held S&T scoreless for the first two minutes. Quintonia Evans (Evansville, Ind./) put the Lady Miners on the board with a follow up shot off a Hailee Parks (Sullivan, Mo./Sullivan) miss. That basket sparked S&T as it scored the next seven points.

Leann Voss made it a 3-point game nailing a trey from the wing less than five minutes into the contest. That would be the closest McKendree got the rest of the evening as the Lady Miners scored the next six points to increase their lead to nine by the 12:25 mark.

The game remained to hover around a 10-point margin over the next 10 minutes before S&T closed the first half out by scoring eight of the final 10 points to take a 31-17 lead into the locker room at the break.

The Lady Miners shot 47 percent (14-for-30) from the floor in the opening stanza and outrebounded the Bearcats by a 21-17 margin. Kyesha Hall (Dodson, La./) and Julie Meyer (Marthasville, Mo./St. Francis Borgia) led the with eight and seven points respectively.

McKendree was just 7-of-28 (25 percent) from the floor in the frame and were led by Ashley Agee's seven points off the bench.

The Bearcats scored the first bucket of the second half on a layup by Brittany Willis to make it 31-19 just 0:21 in.

From that point S&T took control going an 18-5 run over the next five minutes. Meyer scored six points in the run while Evans and Courtney Kemp (Fredricktown, Mo./Fredricktown) had four apiece.

The lead grew to 31 points on two different occassions with the last one coming at the 1:42 mark on a layup by Karli Sample (St. Joseph, Mo./Benton).

The Lady Miners shot 52 percent in the second half and were 4-for-7 from downtown as they finished the contest 29-of-59 from the floor and outrebounded McKendree by a 39-to-32 margin. Meyer and Hall were the only two in double figures finishing with 13 and 10 respectively.

S&T forced 24 turnovers in the contest turning those into 16 points. The Lady Miners also had the edge in the paint outscoring them by 22 points.

The Bearcats shot 40 percent (10-for-25) in the second half to finish the contest shooting 32.1 percent. Agee was the lone player in double figures for McKendree finishing with 10 points.

S&T begins a three-game road swing with a trip to St. Louis on Thursday to take on the Tritons of Missouri-St. Louis beginning at 5:30 p.m.