D’Nari Mills collected a match-high 15 kills to lead all attackers, but it was not enough to lift Southeastern in a 3-0 loss to Ouachita Baptist on Friday afternoon in Arkadelphia, Ark.
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 3-17 overall and 1-8 in Great American Conference play.
Mills turned in a match-high 15 kills to lead the way on offense, while Michera Moffett added seven kills with Jessica Hardin pitching in five.
McKenzie Turkoly led the way in assists with 19 while adding 12 digs and a kill.
Defensively, Turkoly and Patience Lewis led the way with 12 digs apiece, while at the net Avynn La Rose turned in a team-high four blocks, with Faith Kruebbe adding three.
The teams opened the first set evenly, playing to a 9-9 tie early before OBU used a 7-1 run to take a lead and eventually pulled out to a 25-17 win in the set.
The Tigers would again use a run to take a mid-set lead, but Southeastern would mount a rally, erasing a seven-point lead and closing the gap to three before OBU would take the final point in a 25-21 set win for a 2-0 lead.
In the third set it was SE who jumped out to the early leas after a three-kill run by Mills which helped the Storm take a 5-1 lead out of the gate. Southeastern would maintain that lead, going up by a 19-14 score, but saw the Tigers close the gap with 9-1 run before the teams slugged it out over the final seven points with OBU edging the Storm 26-24 to take the clinching set.
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