Wallace Paces Storm to Seventh-Straight Win

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern got a career-high 28 points from Rachel Wallace and stretched its winning streak to seven games with a 78-67 victory over Oklahoma Baptist on Thursday night in Shawnee, Okla.
 
The win evens the Savage Storm overall record at 11-11 and moves them to 9-7 in Great American Conference play, with SE holding onto fifth place alone after the other three teams it entered the day tied with all fell.
 
Southeastern will be back in action at 1 p.m. on Saturday when it hosts Northwestern Oklahoma State in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
 
Wallace was 8-11 overall from the field and an even more impressive 7-of-9 from behind the arc to finish with 28 to lead all scorers.
 
Kaylie Baxter added a 3-for-6 effort from long range to finish with 13 points, while Shelby Hill drained a trio of threes of her own to finish with 12.
 
Taylor Richards rounded out the teams double-digit scoring with a 50.0 percent shooting effort to finish with 10 points while dishing out a team-0best four assists.
 
SE shot 44.6 overall from the field, but was a more efficient 58.3 percent from three-point range, hitting 14-of-24 from long range.
 
Wallace's eight boards led all players on the glass as the Storm out-rebounded OBU 42-to-32 on the night, with Baxter and Emem David each adding seven to the cause.
 
Southeastern never trailed in the contest and only had the score tied four times, all in the first quarter, and when Wallace drained a three with 3:25 to go in the opening frame the Storm would go up 15-12 and never look back.
 
SE took a 21-17 lead into the second quarter, leading by as many as eight points over the second 10 minutes before taking a 37-32 lead into the locker room at halftime.
 
The Bison would cut the lead to one point twice early in the third quarter, but Wallace would answer with a three each time and when she drained a pair of free throws with one second remaining in the quarter SE would take a 52-48 lead into the final frame.
 
 
OBU would get the game to one possession early in the quarter, but once again a Wallace three would answer and push the lead to five points.
 
That advantage would hit double-figures on yet another Wallace three as the storm would pull away for a 78-67 win.