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RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky’s women’s basketball team will play its final three home games of the 2010-11 season over the next 10 days beginning with Southeast Missouri State on Thursday at McBrayer Arena. The game, sponsored by Yellowbook, is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m.

The live radio broadcast of the game is available in the Richmond area on WEKY 1340 AM, and can be heard worldwide on EKUSports.com.

Thursday’s game will be the 41th meeting between Eastern Kentucky and Southeast Missouri State. Eastern Kentucky leads the all-time series 26-14, but SEMO is 10-1 against the Lady Colonels in the last 11 games between the two teams.

In Eastern’s last game, the Lady Colonels lost, 64-59, to Jacksonville State on Saturday. Brittany Coles led the Lady Colonels with 17 points. Alex Jones and Marie Carpenter finished with 15 points.

When Eastern and Southeast met earlier this season, EKU lost 74-58 in Cape Girardeau. The Redhawks led wire-to-wire. Coles led Eastern with 13 points. Jones and Carpenter each finished with 11 points. Nadia Mossong posted her second straight double-double, finishing with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Katie Norman scored a game-beset 15 points for Southeast Missouri.

Southeast enters Thursday’s game with a 7-15 record. The Redhawks are 3-9 in the OVC. Since beating EKU on Jan. 15, SEMO is just 1-4 and has lost three straight.

Southeast does well defensively, but struggles on the offensive end. The Redhawks are second in the OVC in points allowed (64.3 ppg) and third in defensive field goal percentage (38.6 percent). SEMO has held nine opponents to less than 60 points.

The team is 10th among 10 teams in scoring (52.8 ppg) and 10th in field goal percentage (35.2 percent). The Redhawks are also 10th in rebounding margin (-7.7). SEMO has been held to less than 60 points in 16 of its 22 games. However, the team’s 74 points against Eastern Kentucky is the second most they have scored in a game this season.

Norman, a 5-foot-9 guard, leads the team in scoring (9.7 ppg) and is second on the team in rebounding (4.2 rpg). Brittany Harriel, a 6-foot-1 sophomore forward, is the team’s top rebounder (6.4 rpg) and second in scoring (8.6 ppg).