Patricia Mack, senior forward, recorded her first double-double of the season and seventh of her career with 13 points and 10 rebounds in a 90-75 loss against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-1) on Nov. 19 at home in the Show Me Center.

"In a loss like this, that double-double doesn't really matter because you always feel like you need to do more to help your team," Mack said. "As a captain it's just tough."

The Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks women's basketball team (2-2) shot 45 percent in field goals and the Hilltoppers shot an accomplishing 63.2 percent going 36-57 in field goals.

"It was a frustrating evening for our team and of course for our staff," Southeast coach Ty Margenthaler said. "It just wasn't the outcome that I was really expecting. I was expecting a better ball game and I definitely knew the opponent we were going against."

Southeast's bench players had a major role in the game. They combined for 38 of the 75 points that the Redhawks scored that night.

Olivia Hackmann, sophomore guard, came off the bench and played for most of the game with 31 minutes and she led the team in scoring that night with 14 points accompanied with a team-high of three steals.

"We struggled a little bit in the beginning, but coming in I knew we had to attack more," Hackmann said. "In the second half I definitely did that but in the first I kind of lacked a little bit."

Accompanying Hackmann off the bench, was junior forward Hillary Lively who scored her own season high 10 points and tied the team-high assists with three.

"One thing about Olivia, she's playing starter minutes," Margenthaler said. "She's a great basketball player, she's very consistent in being a 14, 16 point scorer."

"We're going to need our bench to be productive. Our bench is going to be big throughout the whole year and tonight it did come through at some points."

In the first half of play the Redhawks had trouble with Western Kentucky's Alexis Govan, who went 8-13 in shooting and recorded 17 out of her total 21 points on the night.

According to Mack, if you see that your opponent is not stopping you then of you're going to take advantage of those opportunities and put up points and that is what Govan did.

Govan was named the 2013-14 Sun Belt Conference Preseason Player of the Year.

Mack had a successful first half and collected eight boards and led the team in scoring in the half with nine points.

Even with Mack's success, the Redhawks still missed 20 of their 31 attempted field goals and the Hilltoppers made 19 out of 33 field goals and went into halftime with a 43-27 lead.

Chastity Gooch came out in the second half with something to prove and she led the team in scoring with 12 points for Western Kentucky and held Mack to a quiet four points and two rebounds.

"Western Kentucky has a solid basketball program and had a great year last year," Margenthaler said. "They returned all of their players from last year's team so I knew the type of team we were going to play against tonight."

The Redhawks did not go down without a fight. They outscored the Hilltoppers 48-47 but the first half deficit would ultimately be the deciding factor in the game.

Hackmann and Lively played for most of the final half and combined for a total of 18 points coming off the bench.

To help keep their lead, the Hilltoppers shot an impressive 70 percent and hit 66 percent of their free throws and Jasmine Crawford went 5-6 from the line.

The Redhawks next two games will be on the road. They will face the University of Missouri Tigers (3-0) today in Columbia, Mo. and the Wichita State Shockers (1-2) on Saturday in Wichita, Kan.

"Expectations are high," Hackmann said. "I think we're going to bounce back. We need to play better especially against Mizzou."

Margenthaler said that Missouri is a great basketball team and that the team is well coached. He also said that his team is going to have to do a great job at defending the 3-pointer since the Tigers are averaging 18 3-point attempts a game.