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DURANT, Okla. – With seven games left on the regular season schedule, Southeastern will be looking to its Arkansas road swing Feb. 7 and Feb. 9 as a chance to build on some momentum and make up ground in the Great American Conference standings.
The Savage Storm open the weekend trip with a 5:30 p.m. meeting with Arkansas-Monticello on Feb. 7 in Monticello, Ark., and close the trip with a 2 p.m. matchup on Feb. 9 against Southern Arkansas in Magnolia, Ark.
SE enters the weekend with a 7-12 record overall and a 5-8 mark in GAC play which is tied for seventh.
The Storm are hopeful for a repeat performance of its earlier meetings with the two schools that opened the 2013 portion of the schedule on the first weekend of January.
Those two victories were part of a streak in which SE won four of five games.
Southeastern downed Southern Arkansas 73-58 and saw four players reach double figures in the process.
Emily Williams came off the bench with a game-high 17 points, while
Haley Schaefer added 12 and the duo of
Taylor Richards and
Cheree Kiser each added 10.
Bailey Welch turned in one of her top assist outings of the year with seven, while Williams pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.
The Storm followed that up with a 90-84 win over UAM that also saw four players reach double-digits.
That game was highlighted by a pair of 20-point scorers as Kiser led everybody with 25 points off the bench, while Schaefer turned in 24 points and finished with a double-double by adding 12 rebounds.
Welch and
Breana Small-Peppers each added 10 in the win, while Welch and
Ronay English dished out eight and seven assists respectively.
Welch is pacing the SE offense for the season with 12.2 ppg, while Schaefer and English are at 10.5 and 10.1 ppg, respectively.
Schaefer's 6.0 rpg leads the team in that category, while Welch has continued to raise her pace in assists with 4.1 assists per contest.
The Cotton Blossoms have been on a win-one, lose one pattern for the past two weeks and are coming off a 14-point home loss to Southwestern Oklahoma State that dropped them to 4-14 overall and 2-11 in GAC play.
UAM is paced by Jordan Goforth who is turning in 12.1 ppg on the year, while four other average at least 7.0 ppg.
Donlicia James leads the squad on the glass with 5.9 rpg, while Candace Virgadamo leads the way in assists with 2.3 per game.
SAU enters the weekend in the midst of the league's longest losing streak, 27 games, and is 0-18 overall on the year and 0-13 in league play.
Katherine McBride leads the way for the Muleriders with 15.5 ppg, while Tori Nichols and Stevi Cooper each average 8.0 ppg or better.
Nichols is leading the team with 8.2 rebounds per outing, while Cooper is averaging a team-best 2.7 assists per game.
