OTAHKIANS' TOP SCORER QUITS TEAM

Sarah Frazier, the leading scorer for Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team, has left the squad.

Frazier, a 5-foot-7 sophomore guard who had averaged 9.4 points during Southeast's first five games this season, did not make the trip for Wednesday night's game at Tulsa.

"Sarah just decided she would like to transfer and start again at a new environment," said Otahkian coach Ed Arnzen. "This is not what she was looking for. It does not make her wrong or our program wrong.

"We've only got a couple of weeks left in the semester. She'll stay here, complete her finals, then go back home and try to find another school."

Frazier, from LeClair, Iowa, averaged 8.7 points per game last season and made the Ohio Valley Conference all-freshmen team.

The Otahkians, 1-5 after losing 74-71 at Tulsa, open OVC play Saturday when Austin Peay comes to the Show Me Center for a 5:30 p.m. tipoff.