QUINCY, Ill. -- The 2006-07 Miner basketball season ended Saturday night with a game that has become all too familiar to them throughout the campaign.

UMR stayed in the game for much of the night with Quincy University, but the Hawks were able to break free in the latter stages of the game and came away with a 92-83 win at Pepsi Arena.

The Miners played well at the outset, grabbing a 19-11 lead on Shea Wiemann’s three-point play with under 13 minutes to go in the first half. However, the Hawks rattled off 13 straight points to take a five-point lead and maintained the advantage for the balance of the half.

UMR hung in with the Hawks, however, cutting the lead to two at 38-36 on a three-pointer by Marquis Jones with 4:06 left in the half. Another three, this one by Casey Noll, brought UMR to within one at 40-39 moments later, but the Miners couldn’t overtake the Hawks before the half drew to a close.

Quincy led 46-43 at halftime.

UMR, however, did take the lead back when Tyrone Davidson sunk a jumper at the 18:12 to give the Miners a 49-48 lead. Quincy reclaimed the lead about 90 seconds later on a basket by Andre Muse, but UMR got field goals from Noll and Yamani Ball to go up 53-50 with 15 minutes to go.

The teams swapped possession of the lead with mini-runs over the next several minutes, with UMR taking a 60-57 lead on Justin Taylor’s layup with 11:45 left.

Noll’s basket with just over eight minutes to play tied the game at 67, which came moments after the Miners lost Tyrone Davidson to an injury when he came down awkwardly after attempting to block a shot.

After Noll’s basket, the Hawks outscored UMR 12-2 over the next two and a half minutes to take a 10-point lead and held off the Miners from there.

UMR got 21 points from Ball, 16 from Davidson in his final game as a Miner and 15 from Noll. Marquis Jones also reached double figures with 10 points while Shea Wiemann, who was also playing in his final game at UMR, had nine points and 10 rebounds.

The Miners finished the season with records of 7-20 overall and 2-17 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.