Southeastern women’s basketball team took advantage of its only nonconference home game last week to pick up a victory before suffering a road loss at the fourth-ranked team in the nation.
Coach Darin Grover’s Savage Storm posted a 64-50 win over Northeastern in the midweek matchup but fell at the University of Tampa, 84-52, on a quick road trip that leveled their record at 2-2.
The women’s squad will travel again this week at Cameron and Arkansas-Fort Smith ahead of the league opener after Thanksgiving break.
Against Northeastern, Southeastern held the visitors to just 29 percent shooting for the game, including a dismal two for 16 on three point tries. The River Hawks weren’t much better at the charity stripe in connecting on 45 percent for the game.
Grover’s club had its own struggles from outside, making just one of 10 three-point attempts but capitalized in- side with 42 points of their 64 points coming in the paint even though leading scorer Caitlin Kobiske was in foul trouble the entire game and limited to only four points.
Holli Lindley popped in 14 points and also pulled down a team-high nine rebounds to spur three Savage Storm players in double figures. Abbie Barr tossed in 11 and seven boards while Kaydrin Scott added 10 points off the bench and added two steals.
Kenzli Warden scored eight, Eryn Dolan had seven, Stevie Stinchcomb pitched in six with Connie Hughes also contributing four points.
Facing the Tampa powerhouse, Southeastern fell behind 21-13 after one quarter, hitting only 27 percent from the field but matched the hosts point-for-point in a 2020 second period deadlock in which they shot 41 percent.
Trailing 65-50 entering the final stanza, the Savage Storm went ice cold from the field while connecting on only one of 16 shots and were outscored 19-2 as Tampa pulled away.
Kobiske was the lone player in double figures for Southeastern, downing eight of 19 from the field on the way to 20 points while also pulling down six rebounds.
Brianna Wietelman canned three treys and tossed in nine points with Barr chipping in seven along with six from Lindley. Warden and Stinchcomb had five points apiece.
