SE Beats HSU 54-53 Behind Drewery Buzzer-Beater

DURANT, Okla. – With seconds remaining in the game, Southeastern's Jamal Drewery found the basket as the time expired to win it for the Savage Storm 54-53 over Henderson State to complete the season sweep.
 
SE shot 27.9 percent from the field and went 8-for-31 from beyond the arc for a 25.8 percent clip. SE won the turnover battle 4-to-16, and the blue and gold capitalized with 15 points off HSU turnovers.
 
Chandler Dickinson paced the team in scoring with 19 points on 5-13 shooting from the field and was perfect from the foul line, going 6-6. Ethan Wilkerson pulled down a team-high nine rebounds and added nine points to his totals, while Santiago Camacho Gomez recorded eight points and six rebounds.
 
Scoring was a premium to open the first half, as Southeastern and Henderson State combined for seven points in the first five minutes. Dickinson would pick up the pace for the Storm, scoring the next seven points, with the blue and gold trailing 10-9. A three-pointer by Deondre Dunn kept SE within one before Wilkerson and Saxon McWilliam made back-to-back baskets to tie it 16-all.
 
The Reddies would jump back in front, but five straight points by Ethan Scott tied it 23-23, and moments later a triple from Dickinson kept the score locked at 26-all. HSU went back ahead on a 5-0 run to carry a 31-28 lead into the halftime break.
 
The Storm came out of the gates fast to begin the second half, quickly tying the game 31-all behind a Camacho Gomez three-pointer. SE remained the hot team in the period, building a 13-0 run over the next six minutes to take a 44-33 advantage. During this stretch, the blue and gold knocked down three-consecutive triples from three different players. Dickinson continued to add to the Storm's score with four more points, leading 48-43.
 
Southeastern was quickly under pressure from the Reddies, who cut the gap to three on a triple, and they soon pulled it to a one-point game with thirty seconds remaining. HSU kept up the pressure and took the lead with nine seconds remaining, and in the final moment of the game, Drewery knocked down a jumper to win it for Southeastern, 54-53.
 
SE (5-15, 4-9 GAC) heads back on the road with a final trip to the Natural State, beginning with a battle against Arkansas-Monticello on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m.