ROLLA, Mo. – Buoyed by a pair of double-doubles as part of a balanced scoring effort Saturday afternoon, Missouri S&T snapped a seven-game losing streak by taking control of matters early in the second half to defeat William Jewell 90-83 in a Great Lakes Valley Conference game at Billy Key Court.

Trailing by two at the start of the second half after they shot just 28.9 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes, the Miners scored on five of their first seven possessions following the intermission and never trailed again as they were able to hold off a late surge by the Cardinals.

The slow start allowed William Jewell to take a pair of six-point leads in the first half, the latter at 24-18 after Matt Lassen hit three-point shots on back-to-back possessions.  S&T bounced back and regained the lead three minutes later on a foul line jumper by Dulan Scott (Chicago, IL/Farragut Academy), then the game remained tight for the balance of the half with the Cardinals taking the halftime lead on Patrick Whelan's three-pointer in the final minute.

But as the second half started, it was S&T's foreign connection that got things rolling.

The trio of Canadians Juwan Miller (Kitchener, Ont./Huron Heights) and Telloy Simon (Kitchener, Ont./St. Mary's) and Lithuanian Rokas Paulauskas (Talsiai, Lithuania/Hamilton Heights Acad.) scored S&T's first 13 points of the half, with Simon's three-pointer at the 18:29 mark putting the Miners ahead as S&T posted the first nine points of the period and outscored Jewell 13-5 in that stretch to build a six-point lead.

The Miners would never trail again, building the lead to 10 after Randy Holmes (St. Louis, MO/Soldan International Studies) hit a pair of free throws with 9:17 to play and eventually up to 19 when Holmes drained a trey with 5:56 remaining.

William Jewell, behind the long-range shooting of Whelan – who had a game-high 26 points – and Lassen, cut into the Miner advantage and had it down to six with under a minute to play.  However, after struggling a bit at the line in the final two minutes, S&T made five of its final six free throws in the last 35 seconds to salt the game away.

Holmes and Paulauskas both recorded double-doubles for S&T, as Holmes led the way with 16 points to go along with 12 rebounds and Paulauskas has 12 points and 10 boards.  The Miners, who overcame the first half shooting struggles with a 52.9 percent showing in the second half, also got 14 points from Miller and Simon as well as 11 from Scott.

Miller also had six assists and five steals in the contest, while Simon added four steals as the Miners (8-8, 2-7 GLVC) recorded 13 in the game to go along with a 51-33 rebounding advantage.

Lassen added 20 points for William Jewell (4-12, 0-8 GLVC), who made 46 percent of its shots from the floor and connected on 14-of-33 from three-point range.

Missouri S&T will hit the road for its next four games – all against teams that currently reside at the top of the two conference divisions – beginning Thursday when it takes on Quincy in a 7:30 p.m. matchup in Quincy, Ill.