Women's Hoops Suffers First Loss

Box Score WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Despite a career-high 23 points from Breana Small-Peppers, Southeastern was unable to pull off a rally late and dropped its first game of the season 79-72 to Midwestern State on Saturday night in Wichita Falls, Texas, as part of the Ashbrook Classic.
 
The Savage Storm dip to 2-1 on the year and will now return home for a Nov. 21 meeting with Henderson State at 5:30 p.m. to open Great American Conference play.
 
Small-Peppers turned in her third-straight double-digit performance and did so in nearly perfect style, going 9-for-9 from the field and 5-of-6 at the free throw line.
 
Cheree Kiser came on strong in the second half scoring all 14 of her points in the second 20 minutes, including hitting three of SE's five three point buckets.
 
Taylor Richards rounded out the double-digit scorers for the Storm with 12 points.
 
Southeastern shot 47.1 percent from the floor as a team, the third-straight game shooting 44 percent or better. Most of that effort came in a 57.7 percent shooting second half.
 
Small-Peppers also paced SE on the glass for the third-straight game, finishing with a game-high eight rebounds as the Storm held a 34-to-30 edge on the glass.
 
Richards also dished out a team-high five assists for the third game in-a-row.
 
The teams traded buckets at the outset, but MSU would eventually push out to a seven point lead by the middle of the first half.
 
The Storm would trim the deficit back to 25-21 on a Kaylie Baxter layup with 4:51 to play in the half, but it would be the last points of the half for SE as the Mustangs finished the half on a 9-0 run to take a 34-21 lead at the break.
 
The hole would grow to 50-27 by the 15:42 mark of the second half, and remained a 22 point gap with 11:11 to play before a Kiser three pointer put some life back in the SE offense.
 
A 13-0 run would be capped by a Haley Schaefer layup that cut the deficit to 56-47 with 8:34 to play.
 
After pushing their lead back out to 15 points, the Storm used a 7-0 run to close to 64-56 with 4:50 to play on a pair of Kiser free throws.
 
Southeastern would close to within five points three times over the final three minutes, with the last coming on an Olivia Potter three pointer with six seconds left, but a pair of Mustang free throws would fashion the final of 79-72.