ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T rallied from a 14-point deficit in the final five minutes of regulation time Thursday night, but was unable to pull out a victory as Rockhurst took the lead for good in the final two minutes of overtime to come away with a 99-96 Great Lakes Valley Conference victory at Billy Key Court.

Alex Hagan's three-pointer with 5:07 remaining in the second half gave Rockhurst an 80-66 lead, but the Miners began chipping into the lead as the Hawks were trying to run down the clock -- but not scoring in the process -- and eventually tied the game on a lay-up by Juwan Miller (Kitchener, Ont./Huron Heights) with 4.4 seconds to go.

S&T had a three-point lead in overtime and led until Kaleb Warner drained a three-pointer with 2:09 on the clock that put Rockhurst ahead to stay.  Those were the only points Warner scored in overtime on an evening that he led all scorers with 30 points, including 22 in the second half.

At the outset of play Thursday, Rockhurst scored the game's first five points, before the Miners came back to knot the score and that set the tone for much of the front end of the first half as the teams went back-and-forth on the scoreboard.

Rokas Paulauskas (Talsiai, Lithuania/Hamilton Heights Acad.) tied the game at 14 with a basket at the 13:59 before the Hawks used a 5-0 spurt to take their second five-point lead of the half.  However, Telloy Simon (Kitchener, Ont./St. Mary's) hit three-pointers on consecutive possessions for the Miners to put them back in front a little over two minutes later.

A couple of minutes after that, a Jalen Myers (Shorewood, IL/Minooka) foul line jumper gave S&T a three-point advantage, one that Rockhurst wiped out on its next two trips down the floor when Warner and Mason Loewen hit shots from the beyond the arc as part of an 8-0 run that put the Hawks up 31-26.

Rockhurst maintained the lead – despite not making a field goal for nearly five minutes in one stretch – then was able to extend it to 10 before a Miller basket cut the margin to eight at 43-35 at the intermission.

The Hawks' lead grew to 11 after Hagan hit a three-pointer early in the second half, before the Miners cut it to four after Miller sunk a pair of free throws at the 14:57 mark.

S&T trailed by six near the midway point of the second half and got a defensive stop, but Warner stole the outlet pass and converted a three-point play and hit a three-pointer moments later to extend the Hawk lead to 12.

After Hagan's three-pointer with 5:07 to play that made it a 14-point game, the Miners ran off nine straight points before Malachi Nix hit two free throws with 1:16 left to give the Hawks an 82-75 lead.  But a basket by Miller, a Rockhurst turnover and a three-pointer by Danylo Zuikov (Kiev, Ukraine/LaLumiere School) cut the margin to two – then Nix traveled in the backcourt with 26 seconds remaining allowed the Miners a chance in the final seconds.

Paulauskas was fouled with 10 seconds  to play and missed the front end of a one-and-one, but S&T got the ball back and Miller drove to the basket and scored to knot it up at 82.

Rockhurst took the initial lead in overtime, but the Miners took their first lead since the opening half when Zuikov answered with a three.  The Miners held one more lead at 89-86 with under three minutes to play and still had the advantage until Warner hit the contested trey out of the corner that put the Hawks up for good.

S&T (7-8, 1-7 GLVC) had six players finish in double figures in the scoring column, led by Simon with a career-high 23 points.   Miller added 18 with a career-high 11 assists, while Myers, Paulauskas and Zuikov all had 13 each.  The Miners shot 46.3 percent from the field and outrebounded the Hawks by a 43-33 margin, but were outscored 26-15 off turnovers as S&T gave the ball away 14 times.

Besides Warner, who made five-of-six from three-point range during his second half flurry, the Hawks (10-6, 4-4 GLVC) also got 21 points apiece from Nix and Hagan, as that trio combined for all but 27 of Rockhurst's points in the game.  The Hawks shot 52.5 percent from the field and connected 17 times overall from three-point range.

The Miners will host William Jewell Saturday in a 5 p.m. contest at Billy Key Court.  The Cardinals fell 77-53 Thursday at Drury.