ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's women's basketball team will look to snap a two-game losing streak and keep itself in contention for a spot in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament Saturday afternoon when it faces one of the league's hottest teams in St. Louis.

The Lady Miners, 8-13 overall and 3-10 in the GLVC, will face a Missouri-St. Louis team in a 1 p.m. contest that is on a seven-game winning streak heading into its home game on Thursday against Indianapolis.  The Tritons are 14-5 overall and 8-4 in the GLVC as play begins this weekend.

Missouri S&T is looking to bounce back from losses last week to William Jewell and ninth-ranked Drury and is currently tied for 12^th among the eligible teams for the GLVC Tournament.  The top eight teams will qualify for the tournament and the Lady Miners have three of their five remaining games against teams that would be in the field if the season ended today.

Janie Arand (Washington, Mo./St. Francis Borgia), who has led or tied for the team lead in scoring in seven of S&T's last eight games, continues to lead the Lady Miners in scoring with an average of 15.5 points per game which is good for seventh in the GLVC.  Arand is also fourth in the league in free throw percentage at 88.9 percent and is among the top three-point shooters as well as she is hitting 41.6 percent of her long range attempts. 

She has a team-high 37 three-point baskets, while Maddie Raley (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) has hit 33 treys and is 16^th in the conference in scoring at 13 points a game.  Meanwhile, Jordan Kabetske (Republic, Mo./Republic), who is shooting nearly 37 percent from three-point range and has a team-high 58 assists, is averaging 9.1 points per game and Bria Pierce (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley North) comes in with a scoring average of 8.9 points a game.  Pierce is also S&T's top rebounder with 6.6 per game on the year.

ABOUT MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS: The Tritons enter their home matchup Thursday against Indianapolis with the second-longest active winning streak in the GLVC, as they have won seven in a row to own the lead in the GLVC Central Division at 8-4.  The winning streak, which included a rally from a 16-point deficit after three quarters to beat Lewis last Thursday, has UMSL at 14-5 heading into this week's action.

A trio of players has paced the Tritons throughout the season, as Jordan Fletcher is averaging 13.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game and Arielle Jackson is also scoring 13.7 points a game with 40 three-pointers, while the third player in that group, Shaunta Jackson, is averaging 11.2 points per game with a team-high 85 assists.

UMSL is also getting key contributions from Sammie Sproul, who leads the team with 45 three-points and is shooting just over 40 percent from outside the arc and Alex LaPorta, who is the Tritons' top rebounder with 8.6 per game despite not starting a game all season.  Sproul is just outside of double figures in the scoring department at 9.4 points per game as is Kaitlynn Henning, who hit the game-winning three-pointer in the final seconds in last week's win at Lewis.

The Tritons lead the GLVC in three-point shooting with a mark of 36.4 percent and the seven-game winning streak for UMSL is its longest in four seasons – when it won 10 in a row early in that season – which also came in the last season in which the Tritons reached the NCAA  Division II Tournament.