Box Score (St. Charles, Mo.) – The Missouri S&T Lady Miners couldn't overcome a slow start in its 85-68 loss at Lindenwood on Monday evening at the Hyland Arena in St. Charles, Mo. The Lady Lions (7-2) won their sixth straight and got 64 points from their starters compared to just 39 for S&T (4-4). The 85 points were the most allowed by a Lady Miner team since an 89-70 loss at Quincy on Dec. 5, 2009.

The Lady Miners trailed by as many as eight points in the first 10 minutes, but Erica Askew (Chicago, Ill./Morgan Park) came off the bench to provide a spark scoring five out of seven points to see S&T close within 20-19. Lindenwood stretched the lead back to five, but Askew cut the lead two a bucket with her second trey of the frame.

The Lady Lions then went on a 14-2 run spanning the next six minutes to take its biggest lead of the half at 38-24 on a free throw by Marissa Lehnig with 2:01 left in the stanza. S&T finished the half strong scoring the last eight points to cut the lead to six at the intermission.

The Lady Miners were led in scoring by Askew's 12 off the bench in the opening stanza while Kylie Cooper (Andover, Kan./Andover) dropped in nine. S&T shot 48 percent (12-for-25) in the opening half, but was just 2-of-7 from beyond the arc. The Lady Miners outrebounded Lindenwood 16-to-15.

The Lady Lions were led in scoring by Kassidy Gengenbacher with 11 points while Jenny Rocha and Caroline Bouriloux had eight apiece. Lindenwood shot slightly better than S&T making 48.6 percent (17-for-35) from the field.

The Lady Miners scored the first bucket of the second half to cut the lead to 38-34, but the Lady Lions then went on an 18-4 run to build a 56-38 advantage with less than 15 minutes to play. S&T closed the gap to 13 points on a 3-pointer by Mia Wesley (Philadelphia, Pa./John Bartram), but that would be the closest it would get as Lindenwood answered with another run to build its largest lead of the game at 82-62 with 1:35 to go.

The Lady Lions forced the Lady Miners into 18 turnovers and turned those into 29 points. Lindenwood was a plus 15 in that category. S&T held the edge in second chance points at 10-6 and bench points 29-21.

The Lady Miners shot 35.3 percent in the second half and finished the game shooting 41 percent (24-for-59). S&T was 4-of-17 (23.5 percent) from beyond the arc which was a season-low. It did shoot a season-high 84 percent (16-for-19) at the foul line. The Lady Miners were outrebounded 22-14 in the second half. Askew and Wesley had 14 points apiece to lead S&T while Cooper finished with 11. The 14 points for Askew were a career-high.

Lindenwood finished the contest shooting 48.2 percent (27-of-56) from the field, was 7-for-21 (33.3 percent) from three and shot 80 percent (24-of-30) at the foul line. Gengenbacher led all scorers with 22 points. Dru Haertling added 14 while Rocha and Bourlioux finished with 13 apiece.

The Lady Miners are back in action on Saturday when the travel to Arkadelphia, Ark., to take on Henderson State at 2 p.m.