Box Score DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern put four players in double-figures and pulled away down the stretch to pick up a 73-58 win over Southern Arkansas on Thursday night in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
The Savage Storm win back-to-back games for the first time this season and improve to 4-7 overall on the season and 2-3 in Great American Conference play heading into Saturday's 2 p.m. meeting with Arkansas-Monticello in Durant.
Emily Williams paced all scorers on the contest with 17 points on the strength of a 9-of-11 performance from the free throw line.
She was joined in double-digits by
Haley Schaefer with 12 points as well as
Taylor Richards and
Cheree Kiser who each tallied 10.
Bailey Welch turned in five points, but directed the offense to the tune of seven assists.
Williams also led the Storm on the boards with seven as SE out-rebounded the Lady Muleriders 43-to-33 on the night.
Southeastern shot 44.4 percent from the field for the game, staying consistent over the two halves, while the defense held SAU to 34.5 percent shooting and forced 26 turnovers, 13 of which were steals.
SE held a 42-22 edge on points in the paint and also held a 20-point advantage in bench points.
The contest got off to a slow start as SE took an early 5-0 lead, and was up 7-2 at the first media timeout.
The Storm would maintain its lead until a 10-0 SAU run would give the Muleriders its first lead of the game at 17-15 with 8:41 to play in the half.
The teams would trade bucket until a 9-0 run would give SE the lead for good at 29-21.
The lead would grow to 10 points before settling on a 33-26 Storm lead at halftime.
The SE lead would get as close as three points before would extend it to a two possession game for much of the second half.
A Kiser layup with 3:53 to play would push the lead back into double-digits.
That would be followed by a 13-2 run that gave the Storm a 73-52 lead, its largest of the game, before finishing with a 73-58 win.
