CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri Women's Basketball (7-16, 4-8 OVC) snapped a five-game losing skid on Saturday afternoon with a 48-47 victory over Tennessee State (7-15, 4-8 OVC) at the Show-Me Center. 
 
Freshman Indiya Bowen and Alecia Doyle each dropped in 18 points to lead the way offensively for the Redhawks. The duo finished 11-29 from the floor and 3-12 from behind the three-point line. 
 
As a team, SEMO shot just 29-percent (16-54) from the floor and only 15-percent from behind the arc (3-20). The Tigers were just below the Redhawks, shooting 16-55 (29.1-percent) and were 4-12 from three (33-percent). 

The Redhawks did damage at the free throw line, including four clutch free ones down the stretch from Bowen and Jaliyah Green to seal the deal. SEMO shot 87-percent from the line (13-15), led by the backcourt trio of Bowen, Green, and Doyle (13-15) who were the only three to go to the free-throw line. 
 
The Tigers won the turnover battle, 24-16, converting them into 20 of their 47 points, but the Redhawks controlled the glass. SEMO outrebounded TSU by a mark of 39-26, including 17 offensive rebounds which they converted into eight second-chacne points. 
 
Saturday's contest featured eight lead changes and was tied nine times. 
 
Alecia Doyle wasted no time getting back to her scoring ways as she opened the game with a strong drive to the basket and was fouled 18-seconds into the contest. She drained the free throws to give SEMO a 2-0 lead. 
 
After TSU tied it with a layup from Eboni Williams, guard Jaliyah Green registered the first field goal of the contest for SEMO just outside the elbow. 
 
Following a Doyle basket, TSU used a pair of free throws and back-to-back baskets to take a 9-6 lead with 6:33 left in the opening 10-minutes.
 
Four straight points from Indiya Bowen regained the lead for the Redhawks. Bowen drove to the basket and laid it in over the TSU defense, and then did it all herself with a steal and a coast-to-coast layup for the 10-9 lead. 
 
The Redhawks and Tigers would trade baskets as the quarter ended and SEMO took an 18-14 lead into the quarter break. 
 
Green started the scoring in the second quarter with a nice driving layup as she finished with her right hand to extend the Redhawks lead to five. 
 
TSU would answer with their own layup, but Doyle would drain a three-pointer to give SEMO a six-point lead, their largest lead of the game to that point. With 7:06 left, SEMO lead 23-17. 
 
A TSU jump shot by Diamond Cannon, followed by a pair of Cannon's free throws got the Tigers back to within two points with just over three minutes to go before halftime. 
 
Back-to-back Doyle baskets, a jumper, and a layup, put the Redhawks up six with 1:33 before halftime. The Tigers closed the half with a pair of free throws as SEMO led 27-23 at the half. 
 
Alecia Doyle led all scorers at the half with 11 points on 3-9 shooting and was perfect from the free-throw line (4-4). As a team, SEMO shot 37-percent (10-27) and an impressive 86-percent from the charity stripe (6-7). 
 
TSU shot just 28-percent (7-25) from the field in the opening half, led by Eboni Williams and Zyion Shannon with eight points each, but turned the Redhawks over 11 times and converted those into nine points. 
 
SEMO dominated the interior in the opening 20-minutes, outrebounding the Tigers 16-10, and scored 12-of-their-27 points in the paint. Jaliyah Green and Alecia Doyle were the leading rebounders in the half with four apiece. 
 
A back-and-forth third quarter, TSU opened the second half scoring with a pullup jumper by Caitlin Anderson to cut the Redhawks four-point halftime lead to two on their first possession. 
 
The Tigers would tie it at 31 at the 6:01 mark on a second-chance opportunity by Jordan Aikens and would take the lead after a free throw by Zyion Shannon with 5:44 left in the third. 
 
TSU led by as many as six points in the quarter before a big three-pointer from Doyle would get the Redhawks to within three. 
 
Guard Indiya Bowen drained a three-pointer on the following possession and the game was tied at 37 with just under two minutes left in the third. 
 
Two TSU free throws, followed by an Alecia Doyle jumper would tie the game at 39 where the quarter would end deadlocked heading to the fourth quarter. 
 
A low scoring fourth quarter went the way of the Redhawks as Indiya Bowen scored the quarter's first basket to give SEMO a 41-39 lead with 8:44 left in the game. 
 
TSU's Zyion Shannon would tie the game with a second-chance layup with 6:24 left as both teams struggled to get any offense going in the quarter. 
 
The teams traded free throws, each making one, and were deadlocked at 42 with just 4:27 left to go. 
 
The Redhawks would regain the lead with 26-seconds left on a pair of Bowen free throws and would close the game with Jaliyah Green at the free-throw line, making the score 48-44. 
 
TSU would hit a last second three-pointer, but it wasn't enough as the Redhawks held on for a 48-47 win. 
 
Looking Ahead
SEMO will be back in action on Thursday, Feb. 15, when they head to Charleston, Ill. to take on Eastern Illinois. Tip-off is slated for 5:00 p.m., CT.