Rolla, Mo. – The Missouri S&T Miners dropped its third straight match falling 3-1 to Missouri-St. Louis on Friday evening at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. The Miners (10-19, 5-12 GLVC) struggled to get their offense going hitting just .159 for the match and couldn't contain the Triton (17-11, 11-6 GLVC) attack in the contest.

S&T started the match strong racing out to an early 6-2 lead forcing UMSL to take an early timeout. Out of the timeout, the Tritons responded with a 6-2 run of its own to square the frame up. The Miners held leads of 10-8 and 12-10 but were unable to pull away as UMSL went on a 7-3 run to grab a two-point lead late. S&T battled back to tie it at 17 on a kill from Carlie Combs (O'Fallon, Mo./St. Dominic), but the Tritons countered with four straight taking a 21-17 advantage. Claire Friedlund (Parkville, Mo./Park Hill South) sparked the Miner attack with back-to-back kills and a double block from Alexis White (Auburn, Wash./Riverside) and Carson Talley (St. Louis, Mo./Affton) brought S&T within 21-20 and forced another Triton timeout. UMSL finished the set scoring four of the final six points to take the opener 25-22.

The second set saw six ties and two lead changes before the Tritons were able to pull away down the stretch ending the frame on a 10-5 run to win 25-19 and take the 2-0 lead into the intermission. Kyley Thompson (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) accounted for six kills for S&T in the frame but it wouldn't be enough as UMSL hit 31.6 percent in the stanza.

S&T trailed by as many as six in the third set before starting to chip away at the lead eventually tying the frame on a kill from Thompson. The two sides swapped the next six points to remain tied at 21-21 when the Miners got a break as Lexi Rogers committed a service error to give S&T the lead and then White added a kill forcing the Tritons to take a timeout trailing 23-21. UMSL got back to within 24-23 before Emilee Schlader (Lewiston, Idaho/Lewiston) ended the set giving the Miners a 25-23 win to extend the match.

S&T built a six point lead early in set four but were unable to maintain the lead as the Tritons used a 13-6 run to come back and take an 18-17 lead after back-to-back kills from Serena Nolte. The Miners hung around and were tied at 21 after a double block from Marketa Illetskova (Klatovy Czech Republic/Gymnazium Jaroslave, Vrchlickeho Klatovy) and Schlader. However, UMSL closed out the match scoring the final four points to win the set 25-21.

Thompson finished with a match-high 15 kills to lead S&T while Combs added 11 and White dropped in six. White also had 36 assists and seven digs while Cydney Denning (San Antonio, Texas/Brandeis ) finished with 16 digs.

The Tritons finished the match with an attack percentage of .257 and had four players reach double figure kill totals led by Kylie Rudsinski with 14. Nolte added12, and Gaylnn Jones and Kristen Uradzionek finished with 10 kills each. Madyson Abeyta and Kendall Buchman had 23 assists each while Danielle Waedekin finished with 21 digs.

The Miners conclude the 2016 season on Saturday hosting Maryville in a 3 p.m. contest at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. They will be honoring their five seniors before the start of the contest.