SE Women Drop Heartbreaker at the Buzzer

ALVA, Okla. – Southeastern took a lead with under a minute to play against Northeastern State, but would fall victim to a buzzer beater that handed the team a 59-58 loss on Saturday night in the GAC/MIAA Challenge in Alva, Okla.
 
The loss drops women's basketball to 0-2 on the season heading into the Great American Conference opener against Arkansas-Monticello on Nov. 19 in Bloomer Sullivan Arena at 5:30 pm.
 
After trailing by as many as six in the final quarter, SE would get back-to-back threes from Olivia Potter, the first with 1:36 to go and the second with 56 seconds left.
 
Neither team would get any offense over the final minute until NSU's Destiny Strange hit a put-back off a missed layup with 0.6 seconds to play to hand the Storm the 59-58 loss.
 
Potter finished with 15 points on the contest, will all of them coming from long range as she finished 5-of-8 from behind the arc.
 
Rachel Wallace added 12 points in the effort, while Kaylie Baxter turned in 10.
 
Taylor Richards dished out a game-high five assists while also adding two points, a pair of rebounds a block and a steal.
 
As a team the Storm shot 39.6 percent from the field, but was better from long range where they finished 10-of-23 for a 43.5 percent mark.
 
SE was also solid from the line, hitting 10-of-11 free throws.
 
Wallace led the Storm on the glass with seven rebounds, while Potter added six, followed by Baxter and Katherine Webb with five each.
 
Southeastern jumped to a 20-17 lead in the first quarter, but both team's offenses disappeared in the second quarter as NSU outscored the Storm 9-4 in the frame and led 26-24 at the break.
 
The teams posted kept the margin the same after matching each other's 17 third quarter points.
 
SE would add another 17 in the fourth by shooting 50 percent from the field and hitting 5-of-8 threes, but NSU's buzzer-beater would spoil SE's late rally.