Storm Continue Road Trip at Ouachita Baptist Saturday

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern continues its stay in the Natural State through the weekend, as the Savage Storm gets set to face Ouachita Baptist on Saturday at 3 p.m. inside the Bill Vining Arena.
 
SERIES NOTES

• In last year's series, the two sides split the pair of games, with the respective home team winning. SE won 82-80 in Durant before falling to the Tigers in Arkadelphia 83-58.
• Heading into the 29^th meeting, Southeastern leads the series 16-12 and had won 13 straight over the Tigers before last season's 83-58 defeat. The Storm are 6-4 in their previous 10 visits to Bill Vining Arena and have gone to overtime twice during this stretch.

 
STORM REPOT
Southeastern (2-5, 1-0 GAC) opened Great American Conference play with a visit to Henderson State and battled back in the second half to win 74-70. The win marked the first time since 2019 that the Storm has won a game in Arkadelphia and snapped a two-game skid to the Reddies dating back to last season.
 
Deondre Dunn continued his scoring streak, posting 19 points in the win – all coming in the second – for his fourth straight double-digit point game. The Watonga, Okla. native has made starts in his last four games, and is averaging 12.1 points per game with a team-high 16 three-pointers. Dunn is shooting 52.8 percent (16-34) from the field and 47.1 percent from beyond the arc, both of which lead the team.
 
Leading the scoring for the Storm is Santiago Camacho Gomez after registering 16 points against the Reddies. Gomez has scored 16 points in back-to-back games and has reached double-figure points in six of his seven appearances. The redshirt-junior guard paces SE with 12.3 points per game, while Southeastern is averaging 75.3 points per game as a team and shooting 45.7 percent from the field.
 
Jamal Drewery has settled into the facilitator role for SE over the last two games with 21 assists across the two contests. The freshman saw a season-high 11 assists on Thursday evening, bringing him to 34 on the year, and ranks second in the GAC with 4.9 assists per game. In addition to picking out a pass, Drewery has back-to-back 10-point games and is averaging 5.1 points per outing.
 
SCOUTING OUACHITA BAPTIST
Like the Storm, Ouachita Baptist won its conference opener with a 69-63 victory over East Central. The Tigers' win improved them to 5-2 on the year and 1-0 in the GAC, and they have won four of their last five contests. The two defeats this season for Ouachita came away from Bill Vining Arena, where they are 4-0, falling in a neutral-site game to Arkansas-Fort Smith and at Delta State.
 
The Tigers enter Saturday with the top-scoring defense in the GAC, giving up 62.3 points per game, which also ranks in the top 15 in Division II. OBU leads the league in both blocks and steals with the efforts of Jaxon Conley, who leads the league and ranks fifth in DII with 26 steals, while Christian Parks and Jaden Webb have chipped in 13 blocks each. Parks is one of three scorers averaging double-digit points per game, and the team is led by Devon Hancock with 16.4 per game.