St. Louis, Mo. – Missouri S&T dug an early hole in a 5-1 loss at Missouri-St. Louis allowing three goals in the first 24 minutes of play at Don Dallas Field on Sunday afternoon. The loss snapped the Lady Miners recent domination in the series as they had won six of the past eight meetings and three straight in St. Louis.

The Tritons (6-1-2, 5-1 GLVC) opened the scoring with a goal in the ninth minute as Sidney Allen converted a penalty kick for her first of the year. UMSL added to the lead nine minutes later as Miriam Taylor scored her seventh goal of the season taking a pass from Allen and Hunter Wagoner and shooting it from the right side past Carrie Levy (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge ).

Wagoner then scored in the 24^th minute off a feed from Taylor and McKayla Harder on a ball that was played down the right side and crossed across the field where Wagoner hit a one-timer in. The Tritons added fourth goal with less than seven minutes remaining in the first half as Kali Thomas scored with an assist from Brooke Blasingame.

UMSL scored again 15 minutes into the second half as Harder scored her sixth of the season of a cross from Cassie McFadden.

S&T (1-8-1, 0-7-1 GLVC) broke the shutout in the 76^th minute as Catherine Hawn (Waterloo, Ill./Waterloo) put home a free kick from Kendall Fitzpatrick (Houston, Texas/Memorial ) for her first goal of the year.

The Tritons outshot the Lady Miners 30-5 in the contest, 18-3 in shots on goal. Both sides had two corner kicks. Hawn, Fitzpatrick, Morgan Sikora (Highland, Ill./Highland), Sarah Hostler (St. Louis, Mo./Cor Jesu Academy) and Johanna Jeffryes (Anchorage, Alaska/Dimond) all registered shots for S&T while Levy made 13 saves.

The Lady Miners return home on Friday to take on Truman State at 5 p.m. It'll be the start of a four-game homestand for S&T as it'll play five of its final seven games at home.