Box Score (Kirksville, Mo.) – A pair of early goals proved costly as the Missouri S&T Lady Miners fell 2-0 to Truman State on Sunday afternoon at the Bulldog Soccer Park in Kirksville, Mo. The Lady Miners (2-6, 2-4 GLVC) were outshot 10-6 overall, but it was just 5-4 in shots on goal and S&T took seven corner kicks to three for the Bulldogs.

Truman (7-2, 5-1 GLVC) scored the game's first goal in the 11^th minute off a free kick. Melanie Hunt connected with Lauren Seawright for Seawright's first goal of the season. The Bulldogs added to their lead in the 33th minute on a goal by Alexis Heffernan for her seventh on the season off an assist from Allie McDonell.

Truman outshot S&T 5-2 in the opening half and put four of those shots on goal.

The Lady Miners started the second half trying to cut the deficit in half and had a pair of shots on goal in the first eight minutes, but were unable to get anything past the Bulldog goalkeeper.

S&T put together another late fury of shots in the closing minutes of the game as Sammy Minea (Leawood, Kan./Blue Valley North ) and Meredith McGhee (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette) both had shots on goal but once again was unable to get anything past the keeper. The Lady Miners put all four of their shots on goal in the second stanza compared to just one for Truman.

Six different players recorded a shot for S&T with four of those players putting a shot on goal. Carrie Levy (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge ) stopped three of the five shots she faced in the contest.

The Lady Miners are back at home on Friday when they host Missouri-St. Louis at 5 p.m.