SE Stumbles at Home versus Bulldogs

DURANT, Okla. – Malaysia Burns turned in a season-high 17 kills, but Southeastern was unable to keep its foot on the gas in a 3-1 loss on Thursday night in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 1-11 overall on the season and 0-3 in Great American Conference play heading into the first meeting of the season with arch-rival East Central, set for Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. in Ada, Okla.
 
Versus the Bulldogs on Tuesday night, Burns led all attackers with her 17 kills, while Taylor Robinson, Caroline Griffith, and Aleksandra Rodic each added six in the effort.
 
Jodi Dixon finished the contest with 30 assists while adding three kills and 12 digs.
 
Caitlin Cosby led all back row defenders in digs on the night with 22 and paced a total of five Storm players with double-digit kill totals.
 
Dixon, Grace Shehadeh, and Rodic each added 12 digs on the night while Sydney Meget chipped in 11.
 
Griffith led the Storm at the net with three total blocks.
 
SE came out hot in the first set and used a 7-0 run with Cosby on serve to open up an 11-2 lead.
 
SWOSU would answer though, closing the gap to as narrow as one point at 23-22.
 
The Storm would get a kill by Rodic and despite dropping the following point, would take the set on a Dixon kill by a 25-23 score.
 
Set two saw the opposite start as the Bulldogs reeled off five-straight points to open the set and ultimately used a 9-0 run to take a 21-7 lead on the way to evening the match at 1-1 with a 25-12 win in the set.
 
The third set was even early until a 7-1 run spotted SWOSU an 18-10 lead and Southeastern could not close the gap, dropping the set 25-14 to fall behind 2-1.
 
The teams traded the lead early on in set four, with the Bulldogs edging ahead early while SE rallied to trail 13-12 and later at 18-16 before SWOSU would finish out the match by scoring seven of the last nine points to hand the Storm a 25-18 loss in the set and a 3-1 defeat in the match.