EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Southeast Missouri Women's Basketball (8-17, 5-9 OVC) picked up its second road victory of the season by a final score of 67-57 over SIUE (5-22, 2-12 OVC) on Saturday afternoon. 
 
Sophomore Alecia Doyle found her way back to double-digits as she finished with a game-high 20 points on 5-16 shooting and was 8-12 from the free-throw line. Backcourt mate Jaliyah Green also found double digits finishing with 16 points. 
 
The Redhawks dominated the paint outrebounding SIUE by a 46-32 advantage led by Amiyah Buchanan, Jaliyah Green, and Megan Barton who all finished with eight rebounds. 
 
SEMO collected 17 offensive rebounds and converted them into 18 second-chance points to SIUE's four. 
 
As a team, SEMO shot 36-percent from the field (24-66), 31-percent from three (7-22), and 63-percent from the foul line (12-19). 
 
Indiya Bowen picked up where she left off from Thursday night, draining her first three-pointer of the contest on the Redhawks' first possession of the game. 
 
The Cougars would take their first lead of the contest with back-to-back baskets before Alecia Doyle hit a jumper to regain the lead for SEMO. 
 
A nice defensive play by the Redhawks resulted in a steal from Bowen, leading to a Jaliyah Green fastbreak layup. 
 
A pair of Kiyley Flowers free throws would give SEMO a 9-4 lead with 6:17 left in the opening quarter. Flowers drove past the Cougars' defense and drew the foul for her first points of the contest. 
 
The Redhawks led by as many as seven, two different times in the opening quarter, but the Cougars would close the quarter with a free throw.
 
SEMO led 16-10 at the end of the first quarter. 
 
The Redhawks turned up their intensity in the second quarter opening on a 9-0 run beginning with a Jaliyah Green three-pointer. Green took the pass from Doyle and splashed the three off an SIUE turnover. 
 
With 6:43 left in the half, SEMO led 25-10 following a Megan Barton layup off another SIUE turnover to give SEMO a 15-point lead, their biggest of the day. 
 
SIUE's Sofie Lewis broke the near four-minute scoring draught for the Cougars with a three-ball of her own, but Alecia Doyle answered the call with a three of her own and the Redhawks were back up 15. 
 
Two-straight SEMO baskets following a SIUE layup would put the Redhawks up 17. An offensive rebound and putback by forward Julia Sion, followed by a Michaela Mayfield elbow-jumper gave SEMO a 32-15 lead with just 3:44 to go before half. 
 
Green would close the quarter for the Redhawks with a jump shot just outside of the left elbow, and the Redhawks led 35-22 at the half. 
 
SEMO's defense was the story in the first half, forcing SIUE into 10 turnovers and converting them into 12 points. Kiyley Flowers, the steals leader in the OVC, stole the ball four times in the opening half. 
 
As a team, the Redhawks shot 14-for-34 from the field (41-percent) led by Jaliyah Green and Alecia Doyle who each had nine points. Eight different Redhawks scored in the opening half. 
 
The Redhawks opened the second half on a 7-0 run beginning with an Alecia Doyle jump shot, followed by a Kiyley Flowers three-pointer. A second-chance basket by Amiyah Buchanan grew SEMO's halftime lead to 42-22 with 7:12 left. 
 
SIUE would cut into the lead and would do so at the charity stripe. The Cougars' Brianna Wooldridge would score four straight points, a pair of free throws and a layup. 
 
SIUE's Sofie Lowis scored three-straight free throws and the Redhawks lead was suddenly down to 10 with 2:54 left before the end of the third.
 
SEMO would respond, closing the quarter on an 8-0 run via back-to-back threes by Green and Doyle, and another Green two-point jump shot. The Redhawks led by 18 at the end of the third (52-34). 
 
The Redhawks led by as many as 16 in the fourth quarter and held on for the road victory on Saturday afternoon. 
 
Looking Ahead
Southeast Missouri Women's Basketball will be back in action on Thursday, Feb. 22, when they take on Little Rock. Tip-off is slated for 4 p.m., CT. at the Show-Me Center.