CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri women's volleyball (14-9, 6-4) fell to Tennessee State (8-13, 6-4), 18-25, 19-25, 14-25, Saturday evening to split its weekend homestand after sweeping Belmont on Friday. 
 
Claire Ochs extended her double-double streak to 12 matches with a 21 assist and 12 dig outing. 
 
The Tigers opened the match with a 7-3 lead before Southeast chipped away at the advantage, 7-6, on a Laney Malloy service ace. 
 
A rally stopper from Maggie Adams along with a service ace by Haley Bilbruck then knotted the set at 13-13. TSU would then reclaim the lead on a 6-0 run, 19-13, and pull even further ahead, 21-14, on a kill from Laken Te'o prompting a SEMO timeout.
 
Te'o would finish the night with one dig shy of a double-double, compiling 29 assists and nine digs. 
 
Out of the break, Southeast and Tennessee State exchanged 3-0 rallies to bring on set point, 24-17. Annie Wehrheim added a kill to make the score 24-18 before TSU finished the frame, 25-18. 
 
The Tigers started the second set with a 5-0 advantage and grew that lead to 12-5 after kills from Johanna Kruize and Julia Pierson. SEMO then stormed back with a 5-0 run that featured a kill from Adams coupled with a service ace from Mikayla Kuhlmann to cut the TSU lead to 12-10. 
 
Tennessee State would then extend its advantage to 19-14 after a rally stopper from Hinalei Fihaki. Southeast would once again respond with three straight points that included a kill from Kuhlmann to chip away at TSU's lead, 19-17. 
 
Kuhlmann would register another kill and then Ochs added a rally stopper before the Tigers won the set 25-19. 
 
TSU then claimed the match with a 25-14 third frame. 
 
The Tigers led the Redhawks in blocks 11-3 and aces, 5-3. Tennessee State recorded a hitting clip of .245 in the contest.
 
Wehrheim paced SEMO with six kills and Kuhlmann had five. Madara Bajare and Adams each had three. 
 
Dion registered 10 digs while Malloy added seven and Bilbruck had six. 
 
Southeast hits the road next weekend for trips to Murray, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee. The Redhawks face Murray State and Austin Peay for the second time in 2018 on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. and then Saturday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. SEMO beat MSU in a tiebreaker, 3-2, and lost to APSU, 0-3, earlier this season at Houck Field House.