SE Cruises to Big Win over DCC

Box Score DURANT, Okla. – All 15 Southeastern players played at least 10 minutes as the Savage Storm ran away with an 84-35 victory over Dallas Christian on Wednesday night in the fall semester home finale.
 
The win lifts SE to 5-2 on the year heading into its first Great American Conference road swing to face Arkansas Tech and Harding on Dec. 5 and 7, respectively, weather permitting.
 
A total of 14 Storm players scored in the contest, led by Haley Schaefer and Breana Small-Peppers who each has 11 points, while Kaylie Baxter added nine and Ronay English chipped in eight.
 
SE shot just 38.0 percent from the field, but did connect on 10 threes in the contest.
 
The Storm as a team dished out 26 assists on 30 made field goals, with 13 players recording a helper and Emily Williams leading that group with six on the game.
 
As a team SE posted a 2.6 assist-to-turnover ratio, committing a season-low 10 miscues in the game.
 
Small-Peppers completed her third double-double of the year with 10 rebounds, and along with Rachel Wallace, led all players on the glass.  Schaefer finished with eight rebounds as 13 players recorded a board in the game as the Storm held a 62-to-36 edge in rebounding.
 
SE held comfortable leads in every specialty category, outscoring the Crusaders 33-10 in points off turnovers, 27-4 in second chance points, 51-5 off the bench and 28-6 in the paint.
 
DCC scored the game's first point, but the Storm would score the next six on a pair of free throws and a layup by Schaefer and a Baxter layup and SE would never trail.
 
After the Crusaders trimmed the score back to 6-5 Southeastern used a 12-0 run to mount a double digit lead which would grow as large as 25 points in the first half before settling on a 42-22 lead at halftime.
 
The second half was even more of the first as SE held DCC to 13.8 percent shooting from the field, or 4-of-29, and holding the team to just 13 points in the half while scoring 42 of their own.
 
The largest lead of the night came on the game's final shot with three seconds to play and Demi Koelzer hit a layup to set the final score at 84-35.