The Miner basketball team allowed its second fewest number of points in a game this season, holding Southern Illinois Edwardsville to 58 Saturday afternoon at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.
Unfortunately, the Miners had trouble scoring as well and ended up on the wrong end of the final result, as the Cougars came away with a 58-46 victory in the Great Lakes Valley Conference contest.
The Cougars built a seven-point halftime lead by hitting 56 percent of their shots in the opening half. Missouri S&T had a four-point lead of 14-10 after a pair of free throws by Justin Taylor at the 12:24 mark, but SIUE scored the next the next eight points and never trailed again.
An 11-4 spurt by SIUE allowed it to build the halftime margin, then it came out and build the lead up to 20 points in the first nine minutes of the second half, doing most of the damage from long range as it hit five three-pointers during that stretch.
The Miners held the Cougars to 37.5 percent shooting in the second half, but made only 31.6 percent of their own shots for the afternoon.
Taylor led the Miners with 13 points and Aaron Hays finished with 11 and a team-high eight rebounds. Taurance Townsel had five blocked shots in the contest for the Miners.
S&T (3-20, 0-15 GLVC) will return to action Thursday when it faces Rockhurst in Kansas City in a 7:30 p.m. game.
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