Marquis Jones

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- The Miner basketball team overcame a sluggish start in the first half Thursday night, but a run by Southern Illinois Edwardsville in the second half sent Missouri S&T to an 81-62 defeat at the Vadalabene Center.

The Cougars scored the first 14 points of the game, as Taurance Townsel’s basket at the 14:59 mark ended the scoring drought. The Miners then proceeded the spend the next several minutes whittling away at the lead, getting it down to three at 24-21 before SIUE took a 38-31 lead to the locker room.

S&T trailed 43-36 after a three-pointer by Curtis Mosley with 17:21 to go, but consecutive threes by T.J. Gray allowed the Cougars to extend their lead to 13 over the next 39 seconds. SIUE would get the lead to the 20-point mark in the next five minutes.

The Miners were led in scoring by Marquis Jones with 16 points and Curtis Mosley with 13. S&T finished the night shooting just 37 percent from the floor to SIUE's 52.6 percent. S&T did made 16-of-17 from the free throw line.

Missouri S&T (3-15, 0-10 GLVC) will face Quincy Saturday in a 7:30 p.m. game in Quincy, Ill.

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Katie Bunge

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- In danger of seeing its winning streak fall one game short of the school record, the Missouri S&T women's basketball team used a surge over the final 14 minutes of the game to secure a 67-60 victory Thursday at Southern Illinois Edwardsville.

Down 46-37 in the second half, the Lady Miners outscored SIUE 28-14 over the final 14 minutes to win for the tenth straight time and for the 15th time in 17 games. S&T tied the school record for the longest winning streak -- set by the 1986-87 Lady Miners -- with the tenth win in succession and is 15-2 for the first time in the program's history.

S&T opened the game by scoring on its first two possessions of the night, but then went into a drought that lasted over five minutes which allowed the Cougars to take a lead they would hold for the duration of the half.

Katie Bunge’s basket at the 4:24 mark drew the Lady Miners back to within three after SIUE had been up by nine, but the hosts – who shot 44.8 percent in the first half – pushed the lead back out to six at 35-29 by the intermission.

The Cougars pushed the lead back to nine in the first five minutes of the second half after a pair of free throws by Amy Austin, but a three-pointer by Chism McEntire and back-to-back treys by Lauren Dubbert, the last at the 12:03 mark, drew the Lady Miners even at 46.

S&T then got its first lead since the early going 35 seconds later on a layin by Katie McElrath, then extended the scoring run to 14 when McEntire hit another three.

SIUE tied the score on a basket by Amber Shelton and a three by Whitney Sykes, but a putback by Dubbert at the 8:12 mark put S&T back in front.

Dubbert’s basket, which made it 53-51, started the Lady Miners’ decisive 12-2 run, which saw the lead end up at 63-53 after McElrath hit two free throws at the 2:29 mark.

McEntire led the Lady MIners with 17 points, while Dubbert had 13 points off the bench. Bunge had 12 points and 14 rebounds for her third straight double-double and Tamara McCaskill had 11 points in her return to her hometown.

The Lady Miners will play at Quincy Saturday in a 5:15 p.m. contest. Quincy (12-6, 7-3 GLVC) knocked off Missouri-St. Louis 92-78 Thursday night.

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The Missouri S&T men's track and field team is ranked 25th in this week's Division II power rankings as released by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

The Miners are one of three teams from the Great Lakes Valley Conference in this week's Top 25 along with No. 4-ranked Southern Illinois Edwardsville and No. 21 Lewis.

S&T has two individuals who have provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division II Championships in March, pole vaulters Jordan Henry and Jared Anders.

The S&T track teams will compete this weekend at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

USTFCCCA Power Rankings (Jan. 31, 2008)
1. Ashland
2. Shippensburg
3. Northern State
4. Southern Illinois Edwardsville
5. Grand Valley State
6. Saginaw Valley State
7. Adams State
8. East Stroudsburg
9. Northwest Missouri State
10. Kutztown
11. Lock Haven
12. Central Missouri
13. Wayne State (Neb.)
14. Minnesota State-Moorhead
15. Nebraska-Kearney
16. Hillsdale
17. Emporia State
18. Mary
19. Findlay
20. Massachusetts-Lowell
21. Lewis
22. Colorado School of Mines
23. Wheeling Jesuit
24. Concordia-St. Paul
25. Missouri S&T

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Missouri S&T has two promotional dates coming up next week when the men's and women's basketball teams begin a four-game homestand.

The Thursday, Feb. 7 game will be Spirit Night at S&T, and all fans who attend the doubleheader with Drury University will $2 off a ticket if you are wearing Missouri S&T or Miner apparel to the game.

The doubleheader will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the women's game, which features the top two teams in the Great Lakes Valley Conference's West Division. The Lady Miners are currently leading the division by one game over the Lady Panthers, who are ranked seventh nationally. Both teams are currently ranked among the top four in the Great Lakes region.

S&T will then host Fort Leonard Wood Appreciation Day on Saturday, Feb. 9, an event that will be sponsored by Miner Corporate Club platinum member Forum Dental.

All military personnel, active or retired, will be admitted free to the 1 p.m. doubleheader with Rockhurst University with a military identification card. A contingent of soldiers from Fort Leonard Wood is also expected to be in attendance for the games that afternoon.

For more information on the games, please contact the Missouri S&T athletics department at (573) 341-4973.

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The Missouri S&T women's basketball team is ranked fourth in the Great Lakes region in the first regional rankings of the 2007-08 season that were released today by the NCAA.

The Lady Miners, who will take a 14-2 record into Thursday's game at Southern Illinois Edwardsville, are one of seven Great Lakes Valley Conference teams among the top 10 this week. Of the other six in the rankings, S&T has wins over three of them, has lost to one and have the other two teams on the upcoming schedule.

Drury, who is 15-2 overall, is atop the regional rankings this week. The Lady Panthers, who will play at S&T on Feb. 7 in the first of two meetings between the teams, are followed by Ferris State and Indianapolis, the team that has handed the Lady Miners their only GLVC loss of the year and only loss within the region..

Missouri S&T is followed by Bellarmine, Hillsdale, Wisconsin-Parkside, Michigan Tech, Quincy and Northern Kentucky. The Lady Miners already own wins over Bellarmine, UW-Parkside and NKU and will play at Quincy Saturday ngiht. S&T and the Lady Hawks will square off in Rolla on Feb. 14.

The Lady Miners did receive votes in this week's WBCA/Division II national poll, but not enough to reach the Top 25.

NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional Rankings
(January 30, 2008)
1. Drury
2. Ferris State
3. Indianapolis
4. Missouri S&T
5. Bellarmine
6. Hillsdale
7. Wisconsin-Parkside
8. Michigan Tech
9. Quincy
10. Northern Kentucky

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Kandi Wieberg

The Missouri S&T softball team, a few months removed from its first appearance ever at the NCAA Division II Tournament, has been picked to finish third in the Great Lakes Valley Conference for the upcoming 2008 season.

The Lady Miners, who finished third in both the regular season race and conference tournament a year ago in the GLVC, were picked behind only defending NCAA Division II champion Southern Illinois Edwardsville and Lewis, the two teams that finished ahead of them in the league standings last season.

The Lady Miners split two games with SIUE and won three of four from Lewis a year ago, including a victory in the opening round of the NCAA Great Lakes Regional.

S&T was 29-18 a year ago and returns a large portion of that team, including All-America second baseman Kandi Wieberg, the GLVC's "Player of the Year" in 2007, all-region outfielder Emily Tucker and honorable mention all-GLVC pitcher Jen O'Hara.

The Lady Miners will open the 2008 season Feb. 22 at the Charger Chillout in Huntsville, Ala., against Alabama-Huntsville. S&T's first GLVC contest will take place March 14 at Drury.

2008 GLVC Pre-Season Softball Poll
1. Southern Illinois Edwardsville
2. Lewis
3. Missouri S&T
4. Southern Indiana
5. Quincy
6. Wisconsin-Parkside
7. (tie) Northern Kentucky
7. (tie) Saint Joseph's
9. Indianapolis
10. Missouri-St. Louis
11. Kentucky Wesleyan
12. Bellarmine
13. Drury
14. Rockhurst

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Katie Bunge

For the second week in succession, a Lady Miner basketball player has earned the Great Lakes Valley Conference's "Player of the Week" award as Katie Bunge was named today as the recipient of the weekly honor.

Bunge, a senior forward from Mexico, Mo., posted double-doubles in both Missouri S&T wins last week to keep the Lady Miners atop the GLVC West Division. She posted 13 points and a career-high 13 rebounds in S&T's 76-65 victory over Bellarmine, then had a game-high 17 points and 12 boards to help lead the Lady Miners to a 66-42 victory Saturday over 14th-ranked Northern Kentucky.

Bunge also added a blocked shot in Thursday's win over Bellarmine, while adding to her stat line with an assist and three steals in the win over NKU. She was also a part of a strong defensive effort by the Lady Miners last week, as they held the two opponents to under 33 percent from the field, including a combined 27.1 percent mark in the second half of the contests.

Last week, S&T's Tamara McCaskill earned the conference's weekly honor after the Lady Miner victories at Wisconsin-Parkside and Lewis.

Missouri S&T returns to action Thursday at Southern Illinois Edwardsville.

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Katie Bunge

As the university was evolving into its new identity as Missouri S&T, the campus did a "Hello" campaign to introduce the new name to the world.

On Saturday, the Missouri S&T women's basketball team had an announcement of its own -- that it plans to be a part of the Great Lakes Valley Conference and regional races for the duration.

Trailing 23-22 at the half, the Lady Miners made their statement in 20 minutes of playing time as they outscored No. 14-ranked Northern Kentucky 44-19 in the second half and blasted the Norse 66-42 at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

The victory, the ninth in succession for S&T, came as a result of its 66.7 percent shooting in the second half and a defensive effort that saw it hold the Norse to just 32.6 percent for the day and force 27 turnovers.

After a sluggish start to the game on both sides -- neither team made a field goal in the first 4:21 -- the Lady Miners captured their first lead at 7-5 on a fast break layup by Jaime Forsberg at the 12:50 mark. Northern took the lead back a few moments later on a three-pointer by Jessie Slack, but Chism McEntire answered with a three at the other end on S&T's next trip down the floor.

The Lady Miners built that lead to eight points, but the Norse came back and took the lead right before the intermission on a steal and lay-in by Danyelle Echoles.

But once the second half started, it was all Lady Miners.

Tamara McCaskill's layup just seconds into the half put S&T back in front 24-23 and the lead reached double figures after a basket by McEntire at the 15:11 mark made it 37-27. Katie Bunge's three-pointer nearly two minutes later pushed the advantage to 13 and the Norse never got closer than 10 after that.

Bunge posted a double-double for the second straight game with a game-high 17 points and 12 rebounds. S&T also got 11 points apiece from McCaskill and McEntire -- who hit three of the Lady Miners' seven treys in the contest. Katie McElrath added nine points, eight rebounds and a career-high eight assists in the the Lady Miners' first-ever win over the Norse in six tries.

Slack led the Norse with 11 points, but the Lady Miners held NKU's Angela Healy to six points and three rebounds after she entered the game averaging a double-double for the year.

S&T, 14-2 overall and 8-1 in the GLVC West Division, maintained its one-game lead over Drury with Saturday's win. It will return to action Thursday when it travels to Edwardsville, Ill., to take on Southern Illinois Edwardsville in a 5:30 p.m. contest. SIUE (13-4, 6-3 GLVC) beat Southern Indiana 73-70 Saturday in Evansville.

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Northern Kentucky entered Saturday's game leading the Great Lakes Valley Conference in three-pointers per game and used that weapon to send the Miners to an 84-53 loss at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

The Norse, who hold the lead in the GLVC East Division, connected 16 times from beyond the arc Saturday. That was enough to pull away from the Miners, who were within eight at the intermission but saw the Norse ouscored them 17-4 in the first 10 minutes after the break.

Missouri S&T trailed for the bulk of the first half -- its largest lead was three in the early going -- but was able to stay within reach of NKU as it shot 48.1 percent in the opening half. Aaron Hays' three-pointer at the 5:14 mark pulled S&T to within one at 28-27, but a basket by Vincent Humphrey and a three-pointer by Anthony Teague extended the margin.

NKU entered the game with an average of 9.8 three-pointers per game and hit eight in each half.

The Miners had four players in double figures, led by Curtis Mosley with 14 points. S&T also got 12 points from Hays, 11 from Marquis Jones and 10 from Justin Taylor. The Miners finished the day shooting 41.5 percent from the field and hit five of their 12 three-point attempts.

S&T (3-14, 0-9 GLVC) will return to action Thursday when it plays at Southern Illinois Edwardsville in a 7:30 p.m. game.

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- Brandon Etzold continued his strong start to his Miner career Friday by winning the mile Friday at the Central Missouri Invitational, while down in Joplin Saturday, Jordan Henry became the second Miner to reach an NCAA Division II provisional qualfiying mark in the pole vault.

Etzold, who had a second-place finish a week ago in the 800-meters at Eastern Illinois, won the mile Friday in 4:24.83 to outdistance teammate Allen Ernst by a little over three seconds. Ernst finished in 4:28.19, while the Miners had two others among the top seven in the event with Brendan Smith finishing fourth in 4:29.72 and Thomas Green coming in seventh in 4:32.95.

Etzold also took third in the 600-yard run with a mark of 1:16.44.

On Saturday at the Fazoli's/Baymont Inn Invitational in Joplin, Henry gained his provisional mark in the pole vault with his eighth-place finish, clearing 15-6 1/4 in the meet. The Miners also got a tenth place finish from Jared Anders, who had previously reached the provisional mark; Anders cleared 14-10 1/4 as did Dan Hellwig to finish 11th.

S&T only had its pole vaulters in competition at Missouri Southern, while the rest of the team competed Friday at UCM.

Ian Packard finished second in the 200-meters with a time of 22.70 seconds, finishing just three-hundredths of a second behind winner Dannon Abney of Central Missouri. He also had a second place effort in the 400-meters in 50.89 seconds, trailing only the mark of 50.34 posted by Lincoln's Rupert Smith.

Joffroi Holcombe had a second place finish of his own in the 3,000-meter run with a mark of 8:53.40, finishing just over a second in back of UCM's Adam Akers.

Kal-El Waters-Jones took fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 42-9 3/4, one-half inch behind the 42-10 1/4 posted by UCM's Markel Wiley for third.

Kevin Thompson came in sixth place in the 600-yard run in 1:18.05 as did Ernst in the 3,000 in 9:07.12, while Thomas Sands placed seventh in the 400-meters with a mark of 54.14 and Chris Teel did likewise in the 800-meters in 2:02.65. S&T had an eighth place showing from Paul Roland in the 800 in a time of 2:02.75.

The Miners also got a ninth-place finish from Charles Melton in the 200-meters with a time of 23.04 seconds and Mike Renkowski in the 800-meters in 2:04.32, while a tenth place finish came from Grant Brown in the 3,000-meters in 9:17.45.

The Miners' 4x440-yard relay team finished fifth with a time of 3:32.83.

The Miners will compete next weekend at Indiana University.

Complete results from Central Missouri
Complete results from Missouri Southern

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- The Missouri S&T women's track team gpt a strong performance from sophomore Katie Bruce Friday night to highlight its performance at the Central Missouri Invitational.

Bruce won the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.72 and added a third place showing in the 200-meters in 27.32. She also finished eighth in the 60-meters with a mark of 8.29 seconds and was part of S&T's 4x440-yard relay team that took third.

The Lady Miners also had a second place showing from Samantha Schussele in the 80-meters with a time of 2:36.88 while Kierra Handley finished in fifth place in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:31.34. Kendra Lewis placed sixth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.33 in the finals after she posted a mark of 8.25 in the preliminary round.

The Lady Miners also got a eighth-place showing from Hannah Terwelp in the weight throw with a mark of 41-5; she also placed 10th in the shot put with a mark of 33-10 1/4.

Hillary Griffith finished eighth in the 200-meters in 28.05 and ninth in the 60-meters with a time of 8.36 seconds, while Rebecca McNally was 10th in the 3,000-meters in 11:57.83, just ahead of teammate Teresa Conley's mark of 12:02.85.

S&T's 4x440-yard relay team recorded a time of 4:20.21 for its third place finish.

On Saturday, the Lady Miners had three finishers among the top seven in the pole vault competition at the Fazoli's/Baymont Inn Invitational at Missouri Southern. Taylor Hahn finished third in the event with a clearance of 10-11 3/4, while Jamie Statler came in sixth at 10-6 and freshman Leah Moreland was tied for seventh at 10-feet.

The Lady Miners will take part in the Indiana University Invitational next weekend in Bloomington, Ind.

Complete results from Central Missouri
Complete results from Missouri Southern

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Matt Hug

The Miner swimming team wrapped up its home schedule Friday night with a convincing 133-72 win over Truman State at the Missouri S&T Pool, winning 10 of the 11 events on the evening.

The Miners won both relay events (the second was an exhibition), with the team of Kyle Kammer, Mark Chamberlain, David Calcara and Kyle Gordon taking the 400-yard medley relay in 3:29.69 and the 400-freestyle relay group of Gordon, David Sanchez-Turner, Chamberlain and Matt Hug posting the best time in that event of 3:09.41.

Hug won two events on an individual basis, taking the 200-yard freestyle in 1:42.73 and adding a win in the 500-freestyle later in the evening in 4:40.61.

The Miners also got first place finishes from Andrew Trowbridge in the 1,000-freestyle in 9:41.97, Gordon in the 50-freestyle in 21.92 seconds, Jeff Enge in the 200-individual medley in 1:57.08, Dustin Spieker in the 200-butterfly in 1:56.06, Kammer in the 200-backstroke in 1:55.75 and Zlatan Hamzic in the 200-breaststroke in 2:07.67.

Second place efforts came from Danny Murphy in the 1,000 in 9:48.73, Sanchez-Turner in the 200-free in 1:46.61, Zach Lemons in the 200-IM in 1:59.20, Chamberlain in the 100-freestyle in 48.15, Aaron Schmidt in the 200-backstroke in 1:59.97, Trowbridge in the 500-free in 4:45.86 and Calcara in the 200-breaststroke in 2:09.92.

Murphy took third in the 200-IM in 1:59.61 to help the Miners sweep the top three spots in that event, while Lemons (2:00.02 in the 200-butterfly), Sanchez-Turner (48.25 in the 100-freestyle) and Enge (4:47.46 in the 500-free) also recorded third place efforts.

The meet was the final home meet for five Miner seniors -- Calcara, Chamberlain, Hug, Spieker and Rory Swift, who had a fourth place showing in the 200-backstroke Friday.

S&T's next competition will be in the New South Intercollegiate Swimming Championships which begins Feb. 13 at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss.

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Katie Bunge

Prior to Thursday night’s game with Bellarmine, the Lady Miners had just one double-double all season. By getting two such performances in one night, Missouri S&T was able to get a big conference victory as it knocked off Bellarmine 76-65 at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

The Lady Miners got 19 points and 10 rebounds from the reigning Great Lakes Valley Conference “Player of the Week”, Tamara McCaskill, while getting 13 points and 13 boards from Katie Bunge. Add to that the 13 points and eight rebounds by Katie McElrath as well as seven blocked shots from the trio and S&T was able to extend its winning streak to eight games.

S&T never trailed Thursday, jumping out to a 10-2 lead in the first five minutes of play after a three-pointer by Chism McEntire. The lead was at 17-8 before the Knights ran off nine straight points to draw even, but Bunge’s layup 32 seconds after Bellarmine knotted the score put S&T up to stay.

The lead reached 10 on two occasions in the half before S&T settled for a six-point lead at the break. The Knights were down by four with just under 15 minutes to play when a three-pointer by Josie Polk started a surge that eventually saw the Lady Miners push their lead to as many as 16 points over a span of 6:35.

After shooting just 38.9 percent in the opening half, the GLVC’s top shooting team connected on 11-of-18 in the second half (61.1 percent) while holding the Knights to 27.3 percent after the intermission. The Lady Miners finished the night at 46.3 percent and outrebounded Bellarmine 41-37.

The victory improved the Lady Miners to 13-2 on the season and a GLVC West-leading 7-1 heading into Saturday’s 1 p.m. showdown with No. 14 Northern Kentucky at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. NKU suffered a 56-51 upset loss Thursday at Missouri-St. Louis.

(Photo by Rod Lentz)

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Justin Taylor

The Miners ran into a buzzsaw Thursday night, as Bellarmine shot 63.6 percent from the field to knock off Missouri S&T 83-58 in Great Lakes Valley Conference play at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

S&T had an early lead in the contest, as Justin Taylor's two free throws at the 9:27 mark put the Miners up 15-14. The Knights regained the lead, but the Miners drew even at 23 after a Curtis Mosley three-pointer with
5:50 left in the opening half.

However, Bellarmine rattled off 13 straight points from that moment to take control of the contest. After Mosley’s three, the Knights got consecutive three-pointers from Adam Brames, Justin Benedetti and Kevin Allen to spark a 20-5 finish to the first half and give Bellarmine a 43-28 lead.

The Miners hit just 34.8 percent of their shots in the opening half and finished the contest at 36.7 percent. Meanwhile, the Knights hit exactly two-thirds of their attempts in the first 20 minutes to build the big lead.

S&T had three players in double figures in the game with Marquis Jones leading the way with 14 points. Justin Taylor had 13 and Taurance Townsel 11 for the Miners, who fell to 3-13 overall and 0-8 in the GLVC.

The Miners will return to action Saturday when they host Northern Kentucky in a 3 p.m. game at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. The 25th-ranked Norse were upset Thursday at Missouri-St. Louis by the score of 71-63.

(Photo by Rod Lentz)

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Tamara McCaskill

Missouri S&T junior forward Tamara McCaskill was named Monday as the Great Lakes Valley Conference's "Player of the Week" in women's basketball after helping lead the Lady Miners to a pair of road victories last week to keep them atop the standings in the GLVC's West Division.

McCaskill, who hails from Edwardsville, Ill., averaged 21.5 points and six rebounds a game while shooting 66.7 percent from the field in S&T's victories, a 65-56 triumph at Wisconsin-Parkside and a 67-60 win at Lewis where she scored a career-high 26 points.

In Saturday's win, she scored 19 of her 26 points in the first half to help S&T build a 10-point advantage by the intermission. McCaskill finished the game going 10-of-12 from the field with six rebounds, two steals and two blocked shots.

The Lady Miners (12-2, 6-1 GLVC), who are currently in the midst of a seven-game winning streak, will host Bellarmine Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- The Missouri S&T swimming team completed a solid two-day showing Saturday by winning the Washington University Invitational by 120 points over its nearest competitor.

The Miners opened the day Saturday with a victory in the 400-yard medley relay as the team of Kyle Kammer, David Calcara, Mark Chamberlain and Kyle Gordon won the race in 3:33.08. S&T then got individual victories later in the session from Andrew Trowbridge in the 1,650-yard freestyle in 15:57.91 and Zlatan Hamzic in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:09.09.

Trowbridge’s mark made the NCAA Division II automatic qualifying standard in the 1,650-freestyle.

The winners in Friday’s competition included Jeff Enge in the 200-yard individual medley in a time of 1:58.25, Matt Hug in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:39.32 and Calcara in the 100-breaststroke in 1:00.15.

Zlatan Hamzic had a second place showing in the 100-breaststroke in 1:00.16, along with Enge in the 200-backstroke in 1:56.67 and 400-IM in 4:12.13, Dustin Spieker in the 200-butterfly in 1:58.58, Hug in the 1,650-free in 16:19.18, Calcara in the 200-breaststroke in 2:10.97 and Kammer in the 100-backstroke in 54.73 seconds.

Danny Murphy finished third in the 200-IM in 1:59.35 and 400-IM in 4:13.18 as did Trowbridge in the 500-freestyle in 4:41.17, Kammer in the 200-backstroke in 1:57.10 and 100-butterfly in 52.81 and Brian Howell in the 200-butterfly in 1:59.17.

Zach Lemons took fourth in both individual medley events, posting a time of 1:59.92 in the 200 and 4:15.86 in the 400 to go along with a fourth-place showing in the 200-butterfly in 1:59.42.

Murphy took fourth in the 1,650-freestyle in 16:37.31 as did David Sanchez-Turner in the 200-freestyle in 1:48.89 and Chamberlain in the 100-butterfly in 53.29, while fifth place finishes were recorded by Howell in the 200-IM in 2:01.02, Hug in the 400-IM in 4:15.91, Aaron Schmidt in the 100-backstroke in 56.15 seconds, Mitch Berggren in the 200-breaststroke in 2:17.18 and Gordon in the 50-yard freestyle in 22.20 and 100-freestyle in 48.46 seconds.

The Miners had second place showings from both of their relay teams Friday, as the 200-yard medley relay team of Kammer, Hamzic, Chamberlain and Sanchez-Turner took second in a time of 1:37.37 and the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Murphy, Enge, Gordon and Hug finished as the runner-up in a time of 7:05.90.

S&T's 200-freestyle relay team of Gordon, Paul Reinisch, Sanchez-Turner and Chamberlain also placed second in 1:26.73 while the 400-freestyle relay group of Gordon, Enge, Sanchez-Turner and Hug was third in 3:14.68.

Missouri S&T scored 920 points in the meet, beating DePauw by 120 points for the title.

The MIners' next action takes place Friday when they host Truman State in a dual meet at 6 p.m. at the UMR Pool.

Friday’s results

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CHARLESTON, Ill. -- The Miners returned to the track Saturday with nine finishes among the top ten at the Eastern Illinois Invitational.

The top finish came from Brandon Etzold in the 800-meters as he posted a time of 1:57.39 to take second in the event. He finished just one-tenth of a second behind Illinois State's Drake Sterling.

The Miners also got high finishes from Joffroi Holcombe, who finished fifth in the 5,000-meters in 15:29.57 as did Jordan Henry in the pole vault with a clearance of 15-1. S&T also got sixth place efforts from Kurt Schauwecker in the 3,000-meters with a time of 9:00.89 and Jared Anders in the pole vault at 15-1 as well.

Dan Hellwig took seventh in the pole vault at 14-7 1/4, while Brendan Smith took eighth place in the mile with a time of 4:25.84 and also had a mark of 2:36.34 in the 1,000-meters. Peter Hollenbeck’s mark of 14-1 1/4 was good for ninth in the pole vault.

Paul Roland finished tenth in the 800-meters with a time of 2:02.45 and Allen Ernst, who was ninth in the 3,000 in 9:05.30, also took 12th in the mile in 4:29.14.

Michael Wilson reached the finals in the 60-meter dash where he recorded a time of 7.17 seconds in the finals after winning his preliminary heat. Wilson also ran a 23.61 in the finals of the 200-meters and Ian Packard posted a time of 51.69 in the 400-meters.

Chris Teel had a time of 1:28.22 in the 600-meters and Brandon Cundiff finished the same event in 1:28.94. Kal-El Waters-Jones posted a mark of 41-10 3/4 to head a contingent of three Miners -- Jeff Pike and Andrew Moore were the others -- to go over 41 feet in the triple jump.

The Miners’ 4x400-meter relay team placed fifth with a time of 3:26.70, while the distance medley relay team finished sixth in 11:09.16.

The Miners will have competitors at meets next weekend at Central Missouri and Arkansas.

Complete results from Eastern Illinois

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CHARLESTON, Ill. -- The Lady Miner track and field team had a trio of top ten finishes Saturday in the Eastern Illinois Invitational and also saw a school record fall along the way.

Taylor Hahn had the top finish among the Missouri S&T competitors, finishing fourth with a mark of 10-11 3/4 in the pole vault, while freshman Leah Moreland was eighth after clearing 10-feet in the event. The third top ten finish came courtesy of Kierra Handley, who came in ninth place in the 800-meters with a time of 2:31.31.

The school record mark came from Hannah Terwelp in the weight throw, as her mark of 46-4 3/4 broke her own record by more than a foot. She also had a throw of 35-8 1/2 in the shot put.

The Lady Miners also got an 11th-place finish from Sarah Zaremba in the pole vault with her mark of 10-feet, while getting a 12th-place finish from Samantha Schussele in the 1,000-meters in 3:25.35. Katie Bruce finished 13th in the 400-meters with a time of 1:01.17, one spot ahead of Aubrey Moore who ran her race in 1:01.24. Hillary Griffith had a time of 27.79 in the 200-meters.

The Lady Miners will have competitors at meets next weekend at Central Missouri and Arkansas.

Complete results from Eastern Illinois

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Taurance Townsel

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- The Miner basketball team overcame a Lewis run to open the game and was in the contest at halftime – but couldn’t rally from the Flyers’ outburst to begin the second half and dropped a 78-54 decision Saturday in Great Lakes Valley Conference play.

After spotting Lewis the first eight points of the game, the Miners rallied and took their first lead at 14-13 when Owain Hall knocked down a jumper at the 10:47 mark. S&T had a 19-17 advantage after Aaron Hays drained a three-pointer out of the corner a little over two minutes later, but the Flyers scored the next 10 points to match their biggest lead at 27-19.

S&T was able to claw back to within five by the intermission, trailing 35-30 at the break following two Andrew James free throws just before the break.

But when the second half began, the Flyers put together another run at the start, this time a 14-point outburst in the first 2:30 that extended their lead to 19 at 49-30 before a Lucas Walls layup halted the run at the 17:06 mark.

Lewis eventually pushed the lead beyond the 20-point mark to the final margin of 24.

Curtis Mosley, playing before a number of family members and friends from nearby Chicago, led the Miners with 17 points while Taurance Townsel had 13. S&T shot just 37.5 percent for the game while Lewis hit 61.3 percent after the intermission to finish at 50.8 percent for the game.

The Miners (3-12, 0-7 GLVC) will host Bellarmine Thursday in a 7:30 p.m. game at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

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Tamara McCaskill

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- It may have been a little nerve-racking in the final moments, but the Missouri S&T women’s basketball team got a big road victory in Great Lakes Valley Conference play Saturday by knocking off Lewis 67-60 in Neil Carey Arena.

With the win, the Lady Miners extended their winning streak to seven games -- their longest winning streak since the start of the 1995-96 season when they won their first nine games. More importantly, the victory will keep S&T atop the standings by themselves in the GLVC West Division.

The Lady Miners had one of their best halves of the season in the first 20 minutes, taking a 35-25 lead to the locker room as they shot 63.6 percent from the floor and held the Flyers to 33.3 percent shooting.

Much of the offensive damage in the opening half was done by McCaskill, who scored 19 points and missed just one of her nine shots during that span.

S&T came out in the second half and extended the lead to 18 in the first four-plus minutes, moving up 43-25 after a baseline jumper by McCaskill.

Lewis was able to close the gap to nine with 9:30 to play after a pair of three-pointers by Jennifer Green, then after a McCaskill free throw put the lead back at 10, Kelly Dianis converted a three-point play and then a three-pointer moments later to make it a six-point game.

With just under three minutes to go, Lauren Martens cut the S&T lead to five with a three-point play, then a turnover gave the Flyers a chance to make it a one-possession game. However, the Lady Miners got a defensive stop and Lauren Dubbert made two free throws at the other end to make it 58-51 in S&T’s favor.

Lewis made one more push as a Dianis basket with 35 seconds left drew it to within three, but Chism McEntire hit two free throws with 17 seconds to go and the Lady Miners forced two turnovers in the final 12 seconds, the last leading to a Jaime Forsberg layup to lock up the victory.

McCaskill scored a career-high 26 points for S&T while Katie Bunge finished with 13. The Lady Miners ended the game at 60.5 percent from the field, their second-best mark of the season, and outrebounded the Flyers 29-22 to overcome their 25 turnovers.

Lewis (8-6, 6-3 GLVC) was led by Dianis with 14 points.

The Lady Miners (12-2, 6-1 GLVC) return home for their next two games starting with Thursday’s 5:30 p.m. tilt with Bellarmine at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

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KENOSHA, Wis. – The Miners were knocked off Thursday night by a hot-shooting Wisconsin-Parkside team, dropping a 98-60 decision in Great Lakes Valley Conference play.

Dave Keane, who didn’t start Thursday game for the Rangers, did the bulk of the early damage for UW-Parkside by scoring 20 of his game-high 23 points in the first half. His five three-point baskets in the first 20 minutes allowed the Rangers to build an 18-point lead by the intermission. but he had a large hand in beating Missouri S&T after entering the contest.

The score was tied at four early on, then the Rangers used a 19-3 burst to built a 29-8 lead by the 10:11 mark. Much of the damage was done by Keane, a junior guard, and senior post Brad Ferstenou who had 10 points of his own in the opening half.

The Miners were able to trim the lead to 15 at 56-41 after back-to-back three-pointers from Justin Taylor, but the Rangers outscored the Miners 19-2 to build their lead to 33 points by the 11-minute mark in the second half.

Taylor led the Miners with 18 points while Taurance Townsel finished with 13. The Miners shot 44.2 percent from the field, but the Rangers hit 51.4 percent of their shots and 12 of 24 from three-point range.

The Miners (3-11, 0-6 GLVC) will face Lewis Saturday in Romeoville, Ill., in a 3 p.m. contest.

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Chism McEntire

KENOSHA, Wis. -- Once the Lady Miners finally got Kayla Ming under control, they took command of the game themselves and picked up a key Great Lakes Valley Conference road victory Thursday with a 65-56 win at Wisconsin-Parkside.

The victory keeps Missouri S&T (11-2, 5-1 GLVC) in first place in the GLVC West Division and extended its winning streak to six games heading into Saturday's 1 p.m. tilt against Lewis in Romeoville, Ill.

The Lady Miners opened the game by making seven of their first 11 shots to take a 16-8 lead at the 12:54 mark. However, the Rangers scored 13 unanswered points after S&T took that eight-point lead, moving ahead 21-16 before Jaime Forsberg's driving layup stopped the run almost seven minutes after S&T had last scored.

The Lady Miners gor the lead back late in the half on a basket by Katie McElrath, but the Rangers ended the half with a 29-26 lead after scoring the final four points before the intermission.

After Chism McEntire tied the game at 29 with a three-pointer, Ming scored six consecutive points on a three and a conventional three-point play to give the Rangers their biggest lead of the game. At that point, Ming, who entered the game as the conference's fourth-leading scorer, had scored a game-high 19 points.

With the score at 37-31, the Lady Miners answered with a 13-2 run, moving back in front 38-37 at the 13:52 mark on two free throws by Tamara McCaskill.

S&T missed several chances to extend its five-point lead, but after two Mackenzie Heise free throws made it 46-43, Lauren Dubbert knocked down a three-pointer with 4:19 to go to give the Lady Miners their biggest lead since early in the contest.

Nearly two minutes later, McCaskill hit an open McElrath for a layup that pushed S&T's lead to seven at 55-48.

UW-Parkside had a chance to draw closer in the final minute after a turnover by Jaime Forsberg, but Heise was called for a charging foul which then drew a technical foul from the Ranger bench. McEntire drained all four free throws with 38.5 seconds left to extend the S&T lead to eight.

McCaskill led the Lady Miners with 17 points while McEntire finished with 15, 10 of which came at the free throw in the final 38 seconds. S&T also had McElrath in double figures with 12 points and Katie Bunge with 11. Ming led all scorers in the game with 21 points, but had only two in the final 15 minutes.

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Tyrone Smith, a three-time All-America performer for the Missouri S&T track and field team, will compete in his first professional meet Jan. 21 when he takes part in the Run for the Dream USA vs. the World meet in Fresno, Calif.

Smith will be a part of a meet that will include Olympians, national champions and record setting athletes from 13 nations. He will be representing his home country of Bermuda in the meet as a competitor in the long jump with Haiti's Narc Narcisse and Americans Tony Allmond and John Moffitt.

Moffitt, a former NCAA champion at Louisiana State University, was the silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Allmond finished as the runner-up at the 2004 Olympic Trials, but did not have a jump that season that could allow him to qualify for the Olympics and Narcisse was a member of Haiti's Olympic team in 2004.

Smith is looking to earn a berth to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the long jump for his nation. He has international experience from the 2006 North America/Central America/Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Under-23 Championships and the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

While at Missouri S&T, Smith won three All-America awards in the long jump, with two national runner-up finishes, and was the Great Lakes Valley Conference and Great Lakes region's "Athlete of the Year" for the 2006 indoor season. He won three GLVC championships in the long jump during his Miner career.

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Justin Taylor

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- The Miners held a halftime lead Saturday at Missouri-St. Louis, but struggled for points in the second half and came away on the short end of a 60-46 decision to the Tritons.

S&T had a 23-19 lead at halftime in the low-scoring affair, but were outscored 41-23 after the break as it made only six of its 24 field goal attempts in the final 20 minutes.

The Miners had one of their best defensive halves of the season in the first half, holding the Tritons to 19 points and 29.6 percent shooting -- and without a three-pointer, to build the four-point lead at the intermission.

S&T extended the lead to five at 26-21 after a pair of free throws by Taurance Townsel at the 16:02 mark, but didn’t score for nearly four minutes after the free throws.

In the meantime, the Tritons ran off 12 straight points, moving in front after a technical foul led to two free throws by Paul Paradoski with 13:50 to go. The Tritons then pushed that lead to 11 with 7:20 to go on a three-point play by David Ward and kept it in double figures for the majority of the remaining time.

S&T was within nine at 49-40 after Aaron Hays hit a three with 4:22 left, but Paul DeChellis’ three-point play at the other end put the Triton lead back over 10 for good.

Justin Taylor led the Miners with 12 points while Aaron Hays had 11 points and Townsel 10. S&T, however, finished the day by shooting just 30.8 percent from the floor.

S&T (3-10, 0-5 GLVC) will play Thursday at Wisconsin-Parkside in a 7:30 p.m. game in Kenosha, Wis.

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Tamara McCaskill

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Nobody can accuse the Missouri S&T women’s basketball team for failing to make its games exciting.

For the third time in the last two weeks, the Lady Miners needed a last second basket to get a victory, as Tamara McCaskill’s short jumper in the lane with 2.9 seconds left gave S&T a 62-60 win Saturday at Missouri-St. Louis.

The Tritons had tied the game on a three-pointer by Courtney Watts with 21 seconds to go, but the Lady Miners played for the last shot and got the ball in the hands of McCaskill, who hit a turnaround jumper in the middle of the lane for her 23rd point of the day and the victory.

After spotting the Tritons the first four points of the contest, the Lady Miners scored 12 straight to take a 12-4 lead in the early going. However, S&T went ice cold from the field after taking the lead, hitting just 11 of its 31 field goal attempts in the opening half and finding itself trailing 27-26 at the intermission.

The Lady Miners took the lead back at 31-29 just over a minute into the second half on a 15-foot jumper by Tamara McCaskill and built that lead to six 90 seconds later on another basket by McCaskill.

After the Tritons were able to erase that lead, moving in front 40-39 on Lindsey Ransome’s reverse lay-in with 11:33 to go, S&T got the advantage back when Chism McEntire drained a three from the wing and Josie Polk hit a foul line jumper to give it a 44-42 lead with 10:13 to go.

However, the Lady Miners were unable to shake the Tritons and the hosts got the lead back at the 4:17 mark after back-to-back three-pointers by Courtney Watts. The second three by Watts made it 53-50, but S&T regained the lead on its next two possessions after a timeout, with Katie Bunge’s lay-in at the 3:17 mark giving it a 54-53 lead.

S&T had a three-point lead after two Jennifer Pena free throws with 29 seconds to play, but Watts drilled the three-pointer from the top of the key eight seconds later to draw the Tritons even before McCaskill’s game winner.

McCaskill’s 23 points tied the junior forward’s career high, while McEntire was also in double figures with 13 points. After hitting just 35.5 percent of their shots in the opening half, the Lady Miners connected on 45 percent after the intermission to finish at 40 percent.

S&T also forced 24 Missouri-St. Louis turnovers and held the Tritons to 38.7 percent for the day.

The Lady Miners (10-2, 4-1 Great Lakes Valley Conference) will face Wisconsin-Parkside Thursday in a 5:30 p.m. game in Kenosha, Wis.

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KINGSVILLE, Texas -- Ashton Gronewold, who scored more touchdowns than any player in the history of the Miner football program, got one of the two touchdowns scored by the West team Friday night in the Valero Cactus Bowl held at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Gronewold caught a 10-yard scoring pass from Midwestern State's Daniel Polk early in the third quarter to cap a 91-yard scoring drive. The touchdown brought the West back to within 15 at 28-13 in the contest that the East team would win by a count of 42-13.

The All-America wide receiver from Carthage, Ill., who earned his post-season honors for his play as an all-purpose back, led the West squad with his 86 all-purpose yards in the contest. He caught two passes for 17 yards and also returned three kickoffs for 69 yards, including a 41-yard runback in the third quarter in the all-star game featuring players from NCAA Division II institutions.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Miner track and field team had three individuals place second in their respective events in the season-opening meet Friday night at the University of Missouri.

The runner-up finishes were posted by Jared Anders in the pole vault with an NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark of 15-7, Ian Packard in the 400-meters with a time of 51.05 and Brandon Etzold in the 800-meters with a mark of 2:00.30 in his Miner debut.

Missouri S&T had a number of other finishes among the top ten in its first meet of the year.

The Miners had a fifth-place finish from Chris Teel in the 800-meters with a time of 2:06.48 and sevenths from Peter Hollenbeck in the pole vault with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 and Kal-El Waters-Jones in the long jump with a mark of 20-1.

S&T had eighth place showings from Packard in the 200-meters in 23.25 seconds and three freshmen, Mike Wilson in the 60-meter dash in 7.14 seconds, Andrew Moore in the long jump at 19-11 3/4 and Trey Newsom in the 1,000-meters in 2:47.05.

Bryan Kluge finished ninth in the 600-yard run in 1:17.88 as did Waters-Jones in the triple jump with a mark of 42-9, while Allen Ernst had a ninth place effort in the mile with a time of 4:38.80 and also took tenth in the 3,000-meters in 9:03.26. S&T also had ninth and tenth place finishes in the pole vault from Jordan Henry and Dan Hellwig as each cleared the 14-7 1/4 mark.

Charles Melton finished tenth in the 200-meters in 23.28 seconds as did Bryan Hogan in the 400 in 52.10.

The Miners' 4x400-meter relay team came in eighth place with a time of 3:30.48.

S&T's next competition will take place Jan. 19 at the Eastern Illinois Invitational in Charleston, Ill.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri S&T's track season got underway Friday night with the Lady Miners posting six finishes among the top ten in various events at the Missouri Invitational.

Taylor Hahn had the top finish for an S&T competitor by taking second in the pole vault with a mark of 10-6. She was one of three Lady Miners to finish among the top five in the event, as Jamie Statler came in third with a clearance of 10-feet and Sarah Zaremba took fourth with the same height.

The Lady Miners also got a sixth-place finish from Katie Bruce in the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.19, while seventh place showings were also posted by Kierra Handley in the 800-meters in 2:31.26 and Hannah Terwelp in the weight throw with a mark of 41-9 1/4.

Freshman Samantha Schussele finished 11th in the 800-meters with a time of 2:47.18 in the meet that consisted of schools from both the NCAA Division I and II levels.

S&T will return to the track next Saturday when it takes part in the Eastern Illinois Invitational in Charleston, Ill.

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OAKLAND CITY, Ind. – Chism McEntire nailed a three-pointer with 11.5 seconds left to give the Lady Miners the lead Thursday as Missouri S&T came away with a 70-67 win over a game Oakland City team.

The host Lady Oaks had a two-point lead until McEntire knocked down a three out of the corner to give S&T the lead. Oakland City had a chance to win it, but Samantha Stahl’s three-point attempt with four seconds left rimmed out.

Tamara McCaskill scored at the buzzer to wrap up the victory for the Lady Miners, who won for the fourth straight game.

The Lady Miners led for most of the first half, building as much as a 10-point lead at 29-19 after a basket by Katie McElrath. S&T led 32-25 at the intermission.

After the teams traded baskets through the early minutes of the second half, S&T built its biggest lead of 12 after back-to-back three-pointers from Lauren Dubbert and Josie Polk. The Lady Oaks, however, trimmed that lead down to four over the next four minutes.

McEntire halted the run with a three-pointer, but the Lady Oaks kept chipping away at the S&T lead and got it down to one on two occasions, the last at 65-64 on a driving layup by Jodi Hobbs with 1:44 to play.

McCaskill missed a jumper in the lane with just over a minute to play, then Karissa Walter hit another driving lay-in with 51 seconds left to give OCU its first lead of the second half at 66-65.

Katie Bunge had a chance to put S&T back in front with 32 seconds to go, but missed both free throws and Walter made one of two at the other end to put the Oaks up by two prior to McEntire’s basket.

Dubbert led S&T with 14 points, while McElrath and McCaskill had 13 points each and McEntire finished with 11. The Lady Miners hit 11 three-pointers in the contest.

The Lady Miners (9-2, 3-1 Great Lakes Valley Conference) return to GLVC action Saturday when it plays at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (4-7, 2-2 GLVC). Game time will be at 1 p.m.

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HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The Miner swimming team took part in a relay meet Tuesday with the University of the Pacific as part of their holiday break trip to Hawaii, dropping the six-event meet to the NCAA Division I school by the score of 33-21.

The Miners had a winning performance from their 200-yard freestyle relay team of Kyle Gordon, Mark Chamberlain, David Sanchez-Turner and Matt Hug with a time of 1:27.34, while finishing second in the other four relays that were contested.

S&T's top 200-medley relay team of Kyle Kammer, Zlatan Hamzic, Mark Chamberlain and Sanchez-Turner had a time of 1:38.06, while the 200-butterfly relay team of Brian Howell, Paul Reinisch, Chamberlain and Gordon posted a mark of 1:38.30, the 200-backstroke relay quartet of Aaron Schmidt, Kammer, Jeff Enge and Howell finished in 1:41.13 and the 200-breaststroke relay squad of Hamzic, David Calcara, Mitch Berggren and Sanchez-Turner had a mark of 1:54.48.

In the one individual event that was contested, the 100-yard individual medley, Enge finished second with a time of 56.50 seconds, while Zach Lemons was third in 56.70, Danny Murphy sixth in 59.01 and Matt Hug seventh in 59.10.

S&T returns to regular meet competition Jan. 18 and 19 at the Washington University Invitational in St. Louis.

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Lauren Dubbert

For the first time in the 34-year history of the women's basketball program at Missouri S&T, the Lady Miners find themselves in sole possession of first place.

The Lady Miners put themselves in position to take the top spot in the Great Lakes Valley Conference's West Division by knocking off Southern Indiana 78-63 Saturday afternoon at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building. The move to first place came later in the day, after SIU Edwardsville upended Quincy 79-77 to move S&T one-half game ahead of the pack in the division.

S&T came away victorious in a rough-and-tumble contest Saturday, holding the lead from the start but having to hold off a couple of USI rally efforts.

The Lady Miners used a 10-2 run in the first half to take a 10-point lead at 22-12 after a three-pointer by Jennifer Pena. After the Eagles cut that lead down to six, S&T ran off 14 of the next 16 points to take its biggest lead of the contest of 18 points at 37-19 after Katie McElrath finished off a fast break with a lay-up. S&T led 38-27 at halftime.

Southern Indiana closed that gap to six early in the second half on Marshay Jolly's three-pointer at the 17:06 mark, but S&T pushed the margin back to double figures moments later. The Lady Miners saw the Eagles get to within seven one more time at 50-43, but moved their advantage back out on a lay-in by Lauren Dubbert and led for the balance of the game by no less than eight points.

The Lady Miners shot 43.6 percent for the game and had four players in double figures, led by Jaime Forsberg's season-high 17 points. Dubbert had 16 off the bench while Tamara McCaskill and McElrath had 12 points apiece.

S&T held the Eagles to 40.3 percent from the field, forced 23 turnovers and blocked five shots in the contest to improve to 8-2 overall and 3-1 in the GLVC.

The Lady Miners will play a non-conference game Thursday at Oakland City at 6 p.m., then return to conference play next Saturday with a 1 p.m. game at Missouri-St. Louis.

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Justin Taylor

The Miners got out of the gate quickly Saturday afternoon, jumping out to a double digit lead in the first five minutes of play against highly touted Southern Indiana at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.

However, the Screaming Eagles caught up by the intermission and then used a 15-4 run to open the second half to take control of the contest, going on to post a 73-57 victory over Missouri S&T.

The Miners ran out to a 15-4 lead by the 15:29 mark on a jumper by Justin Taylor and still had a 10-point lead three minutes later after a three-pointer by Taylor. Southern Indiana eventually erased the deficit and drew even at 25 on a pair of free throws by Norman Plummer with 5:52 to go in the half.

Taylor scored the last of his 15 points in the opening half when he drained a high-arcing three-pointer with just seconds to go in the half, putting the Miners in a 35-all deadlock with USI as the teams went to the locker room.

But while it was the Miners who got out of the gate quickly in the opening half, it was the Eagles who did so after the intermission. S&T took what turned out to be its last lead of the day on a putback by Marquis Jones to take a 37-35 lead. USI's Josh Huebner converted a layup on the next trip to tie the game again, then George Cunningham's lay-in at the 17:30 mark gave the Eagles the lead.

Cunningham's basket started a run of 12 straight points by the Eagles that was finally stopped by a jumper by Taurance Townsel, but Tyler Schnitker's three-pointer 24 seconds later gave USI a double figure lead that it would hold for the rest of the afternoon.

Taylor led all scorers in the game with 26 points, one short of his career high, while Aaron Hays also reached double figures with 10 points. S&T shot 48.1 percent in the opening half, but made only 31 percent of its shots after the break to finish at 39.3 percent.

The Miners held the Eagles to 43.6 percent shooting, but were outrebounded by a 41-28 margin and were guilty of 15 turnovers.

Missouri S&T (3-9, 0-4 GLVC) will be idle until next Saturda