Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team routed on road by Missouri

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team had what coach Ty Margenthaler believed to be a good game plan for Missouri on Monday night, and said that the Redhawks executed it decently.

They were just outmanned and overmatched by the Tigers, though, in an 88-42 loss at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Missouri.

Margenthaler knew that Mizzou (2-0), featuring senior guard Morgan Eye, was a solid 3-point shooting team.

The Redhawks held Eye to just two points on 1-of-3 shooting on the night, but the Tigers got a boost from multiple players, including four that scored in double figures.

"The one thing they did do -- good teams do this -- but they had players that had not done this in the past, they stepped up and made shots," Margenthaler said. "The one thing I knew they were going to try to do was exploit our lack of size and go down low, and they did a great job of that. We went back and forth about trying to do zone or not, but it's just one of those teams where if you give them wide open looks in a zone they're going to really hurt you, so you've got to kind of pick your poison."

Mizzou freshman forward Bri Porter finished with 18 points and five rebounds, sophomore forward Jordan Frericks had 17 points and eight rebounds, junior guard Maddie Stock chipped in 11 points and five rebounds, and senior guard Bree Fowler had 10 points.

The Tigers used a 14-0 run over about four minutes to extend its lead from 6-5 to 20-5 with 10 minutes, 48 seconds remaining in the opening half.

The Redhawks trailed 44-15 at the break. Southeast shot 17.9 percent from the field in the half and 23.6 percent in the game.

"They scouted us really well. They went under a lot of ball screens, and their length hurt us," Margenthaler said. "We took some tough shots, but then we got calmed down a little bit. We did take some nice mid-range jumpers, but we had difficulty getting to the rim with their length."

Southeast scored the first five points of the second half with a 3-pointer by junior guard Olivia Hackmann and a steal and a layup by senior guard Yelena Rosado.

The Redhawks used a 13-6 run over the first three minutes to pull within 22 points, which was as close as they'd get.

"The one thing that I was encouraged by was I thought we came out in the second half with a lot of energy," Margenthaler said. "I thought Yelena did a really good job in the second half. ... I thought we had great hustle throughout the 40 minutes."

Margenthaler was also pleased that his team snagged 15 offensive rebounds.

The Redhawks were led in scoring by senior guard Jasmine Robinson with 10 points. Hackmann chipped in eight points and had five rebounds, and Rosado finished with seven points and four rebounds.

Southeast shot 47.4 percent (9 of 19) from the charity stripe.

The Redhawks (1-1) host Saint Louis University at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Show Me Center.

"I said individually, and as a team, we've got to be sharper," Margenthaler said about his postgame message to his players. "We've got to be better and we've got to learn from tonight because we've got to regroup and we play another really good team on Friday. Saint Louis is a very good basketball team that took care of us last year pretty easily at their place. We know this is a stretch where we'll be tested big. I'm anxious to see how we respond, and I know we'll respond on a positive note."