Storm Tripped Up on Cold Shooting Night

Box Score ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Southeastern suffered its worst three-point shooting night of the season and found buckets hard to come by for three quarters en route to a 72-51 road loss at Ouachita Baptist on Thursday night in Arkadelphia, Ark.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 7-8 overall on the season and 5-4 in Great American Conference play heading into a Saturday afternoon matchup at Henderson State at 1 p.m.
 
"Out of synch," said head coach Darin Grover. "We were extremely out of synch. Anytime we drove middle, and our gameplan was to drive them, that's where we felt like we would have an advantage. Every time we drove middle they were what we call digging – reaching over off of one defender and getting a piece of I don't know how many of those. And then, when we were driving baseline they were sending an early defender to help whether we were driving baseline or backing them in. And our people who were being helped off of didn't know that they weren't being guarded. All of that, with just being out of synch in general was a recipe for disaster."
 
Briley Moon led the way for Southeastern with 13 points while adding five rebounds.
 
Kamryn Cantwell was right behind with 12 points and eight boards.
 
Lauren Beason got off to a strong start, but finished with six points, while Caitlin Kobiske and Chandler Kemp added five each.
 
The game got off to a slow start with SE scoring first, but neither team scored often. SE would hold onto a lead until the 2:26 mark when OBU took a 7-6 lead.
 
The Tigers held a 10-8 lead in the final minute before Beason connected on a pair of free throws just before the final horn to knot the game at 10-10 after one quarter.
 
A Cantwell bucket would open second quarter scoring, but OBU answered with a 7-0 run to mount a 17-12 lead by the midway point of the second quarter.
 
The Storm would get a bucket to answer, but the Tigers would eventually push their lead out to double-digits, taking a 29-18 lead at the half.
 
Southeastern would again score first to open the third, and eventually close the gap to eight points on a Kobiske three-point play.
 
Still trailing by just eight points with just under six minutes to play in the third, the Storm would see OBU go on a 23-7 run over the final six minutes of the quarter to lead 57-33 at the final quarter break.
 
Southeastern would open the fourth quarter on a 10-2 run and close the deficit to 59-43 by the 6:16 mark, but that was as close as they would get as the Tigers would push their lead back out to a 72-51 final score.