SE Women's Hoops Tripped Up by Pioneers

WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Briley Moon dropped 25 points to lead all scorers, but it was not enough to lift Southeastern in a 72-63 loss to Texas Woman's on Saturday afternoon in the Ashbrook Classic in Wichita Falls, Texas.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 1-3 overall on the season and will be back in action on Nov. 22 in its home opener versus Oklahoma Christian at 5:30 p.m. in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
 
Moon finished the day 11-of-23 from the floor with a pair of threes, while also posting team bests of seven rebounds and four assists.
 
Abbie Barr was next in line with 12 points, with Holli Lindley adding 11 with three threes, while Lauren Beason chipped in 10.
 
Beason, Lindley, and Karyssa Jackson each added five rebounds, while Aimee Alverson dished out three assists.
 
Southeastern outshot the Pioneers overall from the floor 40.7-to-34.6, but could not overcome a lopsided free throw shooting situation, with the Storm going 7-of-11 from the stripe, while TWU finished 29-of-39 from the line.
 
TWU scored the first nine points of the game but the Storm answered with four-straight Beason points. The Pioneers would score seven of the last 10 points of the first quarter, all on free throws, and SE would trail 16-7 after one quarter.
 
Southeastern would use a 9-2 run capped by a Moon bucket to erase an eight-point second-quarter deficit, closing to within one point at 24-23 with 5:21 to play in the half.  TWU would again extend the lead, this time out to six points before another Storm rally closed the gap, with a Lindley bucket leaving SE down 32-31 at the halftime break.
 
The teams would trade buckets to open the third quarter, but the Pioneers would put together an 18-5 run to take its largest lead of the day.  Southeastern would answer with a short run over the final thee minutes of the quarter, with a Moon layup to end the quarter closing the gap to 56-46.
 
SE would close the gap to four points twice early on in the fourth quarter, and trailed by two possessions with 1:24 to play, but TWU would score six of the last eight points of the game, four of them on free throws, and the Storm would fall 72-63.