WICHITA - After a sluggish start the Wichita State women's basketball team (1-0) used an early second-half run to pull away from Texas Southern (0-2), 57-40 on Monday night at Charles Koch Arena.

WSU was led by Marcy Sudbeck's 16 points and nine rebounds, while Kyrie Kinder added eight points and a game-high 11 boards, two shy of her career best. Point-guard Jacie Hoyt posted a game-high four assists, while Kiki Stephens added eight points and eight rebounds. Daria Frazier added seven points and eight boards.

Camille Parks led the Lady Tigers with 12 points, while Brandi Justice added eight and led the squad with nine boards.

Texas Southern opened the game on a 6-0 run over the first five-plus minutes as the Shockers missed their first six shots and had five turnovers in the same span.

A Jacie Hoyt layin with 15 minutes left gave the Shockers their first points of the game, closing the TSU advantage to 6-2. The teams traded points over the next few minutes before both teams went cold from the floor midway through the half, including a field-goal drought of five-plus minutes for TSU, while the Shockers only managed 15 percent from the field in the first eight minutes of the contest.

TSU used a four-minute drought by the Shockers to spark a 6-0 run and pushed out to a 14-6 lead following a Camille Parks three-pointer with 7:54 left in the half, allowing the Lady Tigers to take their biggest lead of the game to that point.

Freshman Jennifer DeGarmo became the first of the Shocker newcomers to score this season with a pair of free throws with just over three minutes left that closed the TSU lead to 19-14. Freshman Jadhon Kerr matched DeGarmo with a turnaround basket that ended a five-minute drought from the field for the Shockers, and closed the margin to 19-16 with 2:45 left in the first.

Kerr's free throws with 1:24 brought the Shockers to within one at 19-18, and gave them a chance to take a lead before Taylor Steven and Kyrie Kinder both missed three-point attempts with under a minute in the half, allowing TSU to take a 21-18 lead into the break following a Justice 14-footer in the final seconds that just beat a dwindling shot clock.

The Shockers shot just 18 percent in the first half, including an 0-for-7 mark from three-point range. WSU's offense struggled with TSU's quickness in the first half, committing nine unforced turnovers, but disrupted the Lady Tigers' offense as well, forcing nine turnovers while limiting TSU to a 26 percent effort from the field in the first frame.

Kinder's three pointer with just less than 18 minutes left gave the Shockers their first tie of the night, evening the score at 23-23, and a Stephens putback less than a minute later gave the Shockers a 25-23 lead, their first of the night.

It marked the beginning of a 15-3 run over the first six-plus minutes of the half, allowing WSU to extend its lead to as many as nine after a DeGarmo runner gave the Shockers a 33-24 lead with just over 13 minutes left in the game.

TSU closed the advantage to just four after a Tina Brown basket with 12:16 left cut the lead to 33-29, but WSU answered with a Frazier jumper to push back out to a six-point lead with just under 12 minutes remaining.

A Stephens steal and basket gave WSU its biggest lead of the night to that point, as WSU took a 39-29 edge with just under nine minutes left.

Samantha Smith scored her first points as a Shocker on a turnaround jumper with 5:36 that turned into a three-point play after the foul to give WSU a 47-33 lead.

TSU could never respond, as the Shockers picked up their first win of the season thanks to a hot shooting second half, making 13-of-25 over the first 16 minutes, good for a 52 percent clip from the floor while holding the Tigers to 26 percent shooting in the game on their way to the 57-40 victory

WSU is next in action at 7 p.m., Sunday at UTSA.