Poor shooting and a slow start spelled doom for the Lindenwood Lady Lions basketball team on Saturday afternoon as they fell to the MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers on the road, 78-50.

Lindenwood scored the first two points of the game and held the lead very early at 4-2. The game would be tied at eight with 13:32 to go in the first half. From that point on the Pioneers went on 28-4 run to put the Lady Lions in a 36-12 hole with just over four minutes to play in the first half.

After the Pioneers extended the lead the Lady Lions stifled MidAmerica for the rest of the first half holding them to zero points. The only problem was Lindenwood could only muster five points in that span and would trail going into the half, 36-17. The Lady Lions would shoot only 20 percent from the field in the first half and 0-for-8 from behind the arc.

When the teams came out of the locker room it was much of the same in the final half. The closest the Lady Lions would get would be 17 and the lead would grow to as much as 28.

As a team, Lindenwood struggled all day shooting the ball from the field, behind the arc and the free throw line. The Lady Lions shot 29 percent from the field, 12 percent from behind the three point line and 42 from the free throw line.

Leading the way once again for Lindenwood was Christina Edwards who scored 11 points to go along with seven rebounds. Kelly Albers pitched in with 10 points and Abby Schultenhenrich scored nine. No other Lady Lions scored over four points on the day.

MidAmerica dominated the play in the paint outrebounding the Lady Lions 52-38 and blocked 10 Lindenwood shots compared to the Lions zero blocked shots.

The loss was the third straight for the Lady Lions in conference play and has dropped their record to 4-12 overall and 2-6 in HAAC play. Lindenwood will try and stop the skid on Monday night against Benedictine on the road.