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Box Score 2 DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern's impromptu double-header with Central Missouri on Sunday afternoon played out well for Savage Storm fans with SE picking up a 6-2 win in the opener and posting a dramatic 2-1 win in the finale.
The wins lift the Storm to 8-3 overall on the year heading into the NFCA Division II Leadoff Classic in Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 15-17.
In the finale, SE trailed 1-0 heading into the seventh inning with the bottom third of the lineup coming to the plate.
Laramie Beal would then knot the score at 1-1 with a solo homer to right centerfield.
Lacie Cook followed that up with a double and two batters later, with two outs, would score from second when
Jessica Simmons legged out an infield hit.
On the play, Cook left second and turned for home, catching the UCM first baseman off guard as she had to stretch to catch the ball attempting to get Simmons.
The Storm doubled their hit total in the seventh inning rally, and Simmons is the only SE player to post more than one, finishing a 2-for-4 outing with one RBI.
Jacee Bennett moved to 5-1 on the year after tossing 7.0 innings and holding the Jennies to a run on five hits with seven strikeouts.
Southeastern jumped ahead early in game one, posting three runs in the bottom of the first thanks to a two-run single by
Whitney Hamilton and an RBI single by Cook.
UCM closed the gap with a pair of unearned runs in the top of the third.
The Storm bounced back with a Beal RBI single in the third that plated
Mindy McElroy.
Then in the fourth inning,
Darrian Williams score when
Courtney Moore reached on an error and Hamilton ended the scoring in that ending by singling home a pinch-running
Dakota Palmer, fashioning the final score at 6-2.
Williams and Hamilton finished the game with two-hit efforts, while Hamilton drove in three runs.
McElroy got the start and tossed 3.0 innings allowing two unearned runs on six hits with one strikeouts before handing the ball to
Shayna Milam who moved to 1-1 on the year after allowing no runs on four hits with two K's in 4.0 innings of work.
