Webb's Milestones Bright Spot in Loss

DURANT, Okla. – Katie Webb posted a double-double and reached both the 1,000-point and the 500-rebound plateaus, but had her celebration cut short as Southeastern saw a double-digit second half lead disappear in a 62-59 loss on Thursday night in Ada, Okla.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 9-5 overall and 7-3 in Great American Conference play heading into a Jan. 19 matchup with Southwestern Oklahoma State at 1 p.m. in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.  The game is also Nick Keith Day, celebrating SE's all-time wins leader in women's basketball.
 
"The end of the third quarter," said head coach Darin Grover, "They went on a run and got layups. I thought we did a good job most of the game defensively, they just got some offensive rebounds. They took away the middle and they took away Katie [Webb] in the second half, but in general we didn't knock down shots."
 
Webb had a double-double at the half and on her first bucket of the second half scored her 1,000^th career point, becoming the 13^th player in program history to reach that number, and would finish the night with 16 points, bringing her career mark to 1,003 points which is 12^th on the all-time list.
 
Her scoring mark overshadowed her effort in the first half when her first rebound of the night got her to the 500-rebound plateau, the 11^th player to reach that total on the boards, and after hauling in 11 rebounds on the night she moved her career total to 510which is still 12^th all-time.
 
Webb is the seventh player all-time to put her name on both the points and rebounds all-time lists.
 
She was joined in double-figures by Katie Branam who finished with 10 points, while Neely Noel added eight and the freshman duo of Kamryn Cantwell and Briley Moon each tallied seven.
 
Southeastern finished the contest shooting 40.0 percent for the game but was even colder in the second half where they finished at 33.3 percent and hit just two threes.
 
The Storm had its roughest shooting effort at the free throw line where the conference leading team at the line finished 6-of-13 on free throws, including a 4-of-8 effort in the fourth quarter.
 
SE took the lead early and would pull ahead to a 16-12 lead by the end of the first quarter.
 
The Storm used an 8-0 run midway through the second quarter, capped by a Branam three, to open a 31-19 lead with 4:31 to go in the first half.
 
The lead would hit 14 points on a Moon three with 1:20 to go in the quarter before back-to-back Tiger buckets ended the half with SE up 39-29.
 
ECU made up ground in the third quarter, with Southeastern shooting 33.3 percent from the field and hitting just 1-of-7 from three and getting outscored 16-9 to take a 48-45 lead to the fourth quarter.
 
The Storm maintained its lead until the six-minute mark when ECU would take its first lead since the game's opening quarter.
 
SE would get the lead back briefly on a pair of Cierra Rangel free throws to go back up 57-56 with 5:19 to play.
 
The Tigers would score the next four points to regain the lead and the Storm would hit 2-of-6 free throws and go 0-for-5 over the final five minutes from the field as ECU would hand SE a 62-59 loss.