Storm Fall in Fall Home Finale

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern closed out the home portion of its fall schedule with an 89-72 loss on Tuesday night to Dallas Baptist in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
 
The loss was the team's fourth in-a-row and dropped them to 4-5 overall on the year heading into an exhibition contest with Division I Southern Mississippi on Dec. 29 in Hattiesburg, Miss.
 
Anton Cook led the way in scoring with 16 points, going 5-of-10 from the floor and hitting 5-of-5 at the free throw line.
 
Nathan Jackson was right behind him with 15 on a 6-of-9 shooting night.
 
Sami Bzai and Tyler Lonzie each finished with nine, while Stelios Papafloratos added eight.
 
The teams shot fairly evenly from the floor with SE at 42.6 percent and DBU at 43.1 percent, but it was long range shooting that made the difference where the Storm hit 2-of-24 from three point range while the Patriots hit 13-of-29.
 
Papafloratos dished out a team-best seven assists, while Cook and Bzai added three each.
 
Bzai hauled in a game-high 11 rebounds, while Jackson added seven, but Southeastern was outrebounded on the night 41-to-35.
 
SE did turn in seven blocked shots as a team, led by Lonzie who swatted five of his own.
 
The game stayed within two possessions for both teams early in the first until DBU used an 11-2 run to open up a 31-19 edge by the 6:32 mark of the half.
 
The Storm would close the gap to eight points, but the Patriots would push it back to a double-digit lead and take a 43-29 advantage into the half.
 
SE would again close the gap to within eight points on a pair of Papafloratos free throws at the 18:01 mark of the second half, but an 18-2 run was the answer from DBNU which opened up a 61-37 lead by the 12:54 mark of the second half before going on to an 89-72 final.