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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- For the second straight night, a first half run put the Miners in a hole that they couldn't escape from as they dropped a 76-62 decision to Truman State in the Hillyard Classic at Missouri Western.
UMR grabbed a 3-0 lead on its opening possession as freshman guard Justin Taylor drained a three-pointer, but that turned out to be the Miners' only lead of the contest. Truman scored the next 10 points and led 20-11 before UMR scored eight straight points to cut the lead to one.
A pair of baskets by Yamani Ball, who led the Miners in scoring Saturday with 17 points, and a three-point basket by Joe Shardo at the 10:14 mark made the score 20-19. However, the Bulldogs rattled off the next 10 points to go up by 11 and never led by less than five points for the duration of the contest.
UMR was down by seven at halftime at 34-27, but that deficit quickly reached double figures after Shea Wiemann scored the initial points of the second half. The Miners had the Truman lead down to 10 with 2:40 to go but couldn't get any closer.
The Miners shot 47 percent in the second half but ended up at 38.6 percent for the game after they made only 11 of their 36 shots (30.6 percent) in the opening half. The Bulldogs (2-1), meanwhile, connected on 46.3 percent of their tries and also outrebounded UMR 44-31 in the contest with Andy Calmes pulling down a game-high 16 boards.
Besides the 17 points Ball provided, UMR also got 16 from Tyrone Davidson and 12 from Shardo on four three-point baskets.
The Miners (1-2) will return to action Nov. 25 with a 3 p.m. game at Lincoln University in Jefferson City.
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