ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's women's basketball team will seek to break back into the win column this week as it plays a pair of Great Lakes Valley Conference contests, beginning with a Thursday matchup at Quincy to wrap up a three-games stretch away from home.

The Lady Miners, 7-10 overall and 2-7 in the GLVC, will face a Quincy team in Thursday's 5:15 p.m. contest that is also 2-7 in league play; the Hawks come in at 6-12 overall.  Missouri S&T will return home to take on Rockhurst Saturday at 1 p.m. on Military Appreciation Day at S&T, as all military personnel – active or retired – will admitted free along with their immediate family members with a military identification card.

After falling to nationally-ranked Southern Indiana on the first game of the three-game road swing, the Lady Miners were unable to clear the final hurdle Saturday and ended up on the short end of a 78-69 decision at Bellarmine.  The Lady Miners were within one possession with just over a minute to play, but the Knights went 10-of-10 at the free throw line over the final minute to hold on.

Maddie Raley (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) scored a career-high 22 points in Saturday's contest and is averaging 13.5 points per game as the week begins.  S&T's top scorer continues to be Janie Arand (Washington, Mo./St. Francis Borgia), who is seventh in the GLVC with her average of 15.4 points per game and is closing in on the 1,000-point mark for her Lady Miner career.

Arand is currently the top free throw shooter in the GLVC at 91.7 percent and is among the top three-point shooters as well as she is hitting 43.1 percent of her long range attempts.  She has a team-high 31 three-point baskets, while Raley has hit 25 treys and Jordan Kabetske (Republic, Mo./Republic) has made 17 at a clip of 38.6 percent.  Kabetske is also the Lady Miner leader in assists with 46 and steals with 21. 

Meanwhile, Bria Pierce (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley North) has averaged 8.9 points and 6.6 rebounds a game since rejoining the lineup and Kabetske is scoring 8.7 points per game.

ABOUT QUINCY: The Hawks enter the week at 6-12 overall and 2-7 in the GLVC, but own victories in three of its last seven games.  However, Quincy dropped both of its games over the past weekend with losses to McKendree and Missouri-St. Louis after picking up a two-point win at Maryville last Monday.

The Hawks, who as a team are shooting only 39.4 percent from the field, made only 31.7 percent of their shots in their 80-60 loss Saturday to UMSL in a game where they fell behind by 14 points after a quarter of play.  Quincy got 16 points in the loss from Annika Webster, its leading scorer for the season with an average of 16.2 points per game which ranks fifth in the GLVC entering play this week.

Webster has also connected 31 times from three-point range, second on the team to Jessie Rabas' 36, while also pulling down 4.9 rebounds per contest.  She is the Hawks' lone player in double figures, as Julia Ruzevich is at 7.6 points per game after scoring a team-high against UMSL and Rabas, a 49.3 percent three-point shooter, comes in at 7.2 points a game.  Quincy's top rebounder is Alexa Low with 5.1 per game.

Despite their overall struggles from the floor, the Hawks are shooting a GLVC-best 36 percent from three-point land and are fifth in the conference with 7.2 treys per game.  Quincy has five players with at least 13 made three-pointers this season, with Webster shooting 36.5 percent from beyond the arc and Taylor Hickey at 35.1 percent.

ABOUT ROCKHURST: The Hawks bring an 8-9 overall record and 4-5 GLVC mark into Thursday's game at Missouri-St. Louis before coming to Rolla for Saturday's matchup with the Lady Miners.  Rockhurst has lost seven of its last night games following a 6-2 start, but one of the wins came Saturday in an 80-75 victory at Wisconsin-Parkside.

Jillian Myers, who had a team-high 19 points in that game as well as in the Hawks' setback last Thursday at Lewis, is one of two double figure scorers with an average of 12.9 points per game.  The other in double figures is Madeline Ronshausen, the eighth-leading scorer in the GLVC with her average of 15.2 points per contest.  Ronshausen has done a good deal of her damage from three-point range, where he she has connected 42 times.

Kaci German is the Hawks' rebounding leader with 5.4 per game, while Myers and Morgan Harwood are pulling down 4.4 per game apiece.   Myers is also the Hawks' leader in assists with 74 and in steals with 44, as she enters the week ranked second in the conference in assists and fourth in steals.

As a team, Rockhurst is shooting only 39.6 percent from the field – but has held its opponents to 39.5 percent at the other end of the floor – and is just over 30 percent from three-point range.  Besides Ronshausen, Briathia Sebek has made 22 three-pointers and Myers has 15, but no other Hawk has made more than four on the year.