CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Key runs by Eastern Illinois in the second and third quarters carried the Panthers to an OVC opening win, 71-55, over Southeast Missouri on Thursday night at the Show Me Center.
EIU won its seventh straight OVC opener improving to 4-6 on the season, 1-0 in the OVC. SEMO fell to 1-8 overall, 0-1 OVC.
Eastern Illinois broke open a slowly played first quarter by both teams with a 12-0 run to open the second quarter. Lyric Johnson and Sydney-James Desroches hit back-to-back 3-pointers to open the run…