ROLLA, Mo. – Joe'l Bland (St. Charles, Mo./Homeschooled) scored a career-high 22 points, but it wasn't enough as the Missouri S&T Lady Miners dropped its home finale to William Jewell 72-59 on Saturday afternoon. S&T finished the game outshooting the Cardinals, but allowed eight three-pointers in the first half which proved to be the difference.

The Lady Miners (6-19, 2-15 GLVC) scored the first points of the game for their only lead of the contest on a layup by Leigh-Ann Kesper (Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville) less than a minute in. S&T then went cold from the floor missing its next four shots and turned the ball over five times as William Jewell went on a 17-2 run to take a double digit lead eight minutes into the contest.

Katie Finn came off the bench to spark the run for the Cardinals (14-11, 9-8 GLVC) hitting a pair of three's while Christian Benton-Keys added seven points. William Jewell led by as many as 19 points on the first half and took that advantage into the locker room.

The Lady Miners were just 9-for-23 (39.1 percent) from the floor, 1-6 from three and made all three of its free throw attempts. Bland led S&T with nine points while Kesper dropped in seven.

The Lady Miners turned the ball over 14 times in the frame resulting in 14 points for the Cardinals.

William Jewell was 14-of-35 (40 percent) from the field, connected on eight of its 15 attempts from beyond the arc and was 5-for-7 at the line. It outrebounded S&T 21-15 including 11-3 on the offensive glass. Benton-Keys led all scorers with 14 points while Finn and Maddie Nelson dropped in nine points each.

The Lady Miners began to claw their way back into the contest opening the second half on a 22-14 run over the first nine-plus minutes to cut the deficit to 55-44 after an old fashioned three-point play by Janie Arand (Washington, Mo./St. Francis Borgia).

They wouldn't get any closer than 10 points the rest of the way as the Cardinals held them at arms bay pushing the lead to as many as 16 points with more than seven minutes to go in the game. William Jewell scored four of the final five points of the game to finish on the 13-point margin.

Bland led all scorers in the second half with 13 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the floor and was 5-for-7 at the foul line. Arand contributed eight points in the frame as S&T outscored the Cardinals 37-31 in the stanza.

The Lady Miners finished the game going 20-for-46 (43.5 percent) from the field, converted on just three of their 10 attempts from beyond the arc and hit 16-of-21 free throws. Bland was 7-for-9 from the field and at the foul line. The seven free throws were also a career-high for her. Kesper was the only other S&T player to finish in double figures with 12 points.

William Jewell cooled off in the second half making only 36 percent of its attempts from the field but still shot 38.6 percent (22-for-57) for the contest. It was 9-of-24 from beyond the arc, just 1-for-9 in the second half, and made 19 of 23 at the foul line. Benton-Keys led four Cardinals in double figures with 22 points while Nelson had 15, Finn added 13 and Aerial Smith dropped in 11.

The Lady Miners conclude their 2014-15 season next Thursday traveling to Springfield, Mo., to take on the 11^th ranked Drury University Panthers beginning at 5:30 p.m.