SE Tripped Up at the Buzzer at OBU

SHAWNEE, Okla. – A'Torey Everett scored all 16 of his points in the second half and Kevin Buckingham turned in a double-double but neither was enough to lift Southeastern past its worst three-point shooting effort of the season in a 64-63 loss to Oklahoma Baptist on Thursday night in Shawnee, Okla.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 17-5 overall on the season and 11-4 in Great American Conference play heading into Saturday's 3 p.m. matchup with Southern Nazarene in a contest for the top spot in the league standings.
 
Everett's 16 points led the Storm offense, while Buckingham finished with 15 and Kellen Manek put up 11.
 
Buckingham turned in his third double-double of the season with 11 rebounds, while Kayo Goncalves pilled down a game-high 12 boards. Manek just missed a double-double of his own with nine rebounds.
 
Adam Dworsky finished the night with eight points and dished out a game-high seven assists.
 
Manek posted nine first-half points and Dworsky added eight points, but the story of the first half was a 1-for-12 effort from three-point range.
 
SE would get on the board first on a Buckingham layup, but the Bison would answer and take the lead, holding it until the 8:44 mark of the half when a Manek layup would tie the game at 19-19.
 
That was part of an 8-0 run that would give the Storm a 23-19 lead on a Dworsky layup with 6:19 to go in the half.
 
The teams would trade buckets before OBU scored seven-straight points to take a 31-26 lead before Todd Dawkins connected on a buzzer-beating layup to cut he halftime score to 31-28.
 
After trailing by as many as 10 points early in the second half, the Storm would put together a 9-2 run capped by an Everett three to cut the score to 40-37 with 15:36 to play.
 
The SE rally would stall there and OBU would push its lead back out to as many as nine points, but an Everett three with 7:07 to go would kick off an 11-3 run that he also capped with a jumper at the 2:55 mark to give the Storm a 56-55 lead.
 
The teams would trade the lead back-and-forth, with Southeastern taking a 63-62 lead on an Everett bucket with 15 seconds to play.
 
However, The Bison would connect on a layup with 1.3 seconds left to hand SE a 64-63 loss.