Box Score DURANT, Okla. – Two bad innings stopped Southeastern's chances at a series weep on Sunday afternoon, falling to Southwestern Oklahoma State 11-2 at The Ballpark in Durant after posting wins of 12-10 and 6-3 on Saturday.
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 22-18 overall on the season and 14-13 in Great American Conference play heading into the regular-season ending three-game road series against Rival East Central April 26-27 in Ada, Okla.
SE also finishes the weekend in the same position it started the weekend in the GAC standings, one game behind Harding for the sixth and final spot in the post season tournament with three games to play.
If Southeastern can win one more game than the Bisons over the final weekend they would put themselves in a tie where the Storm have the tiebreaker thanks to winning the series against HU earlier in the season.
SE got on the board first when a
Nick Grimmett groundout brought home
Chevis Springer for a 1-0 lead.
SWOSU, however, answered by handing the Storm its first bad inning of the day, collecting six runs on four hits and one SE error to mount a 6-1 lead.
Southeastern would get a run back in the fourth inning when
Travis Caraway scored as Mark Franks grounded into a double play, making the score 6-2.
SE would struggle to pick up runners on the afternoon, stranding 10 on the day.
The Bulldogs would get the final say on offense, handing the Storm its second bad inning of the contest by scoring five runs on four hits in the eighth to fashion the 11-2 final.
Southeastern picked up 10 hits as a team on the contest, led by a 3-for-5 outing by
Tucker Alexander.
Springer and
Robby Nunez followed with two hits each.
Grimmett picked up the lone SE RBI.
Levi Lewis got the start, his second of the year, but was saddled with the loss after allowing six runs, five earned, on four hits in 1.2 innings pitched.
Storm Griffin came on to toss the next 4.2 innings, allowing just two hits with one K.
Eddie Cervantes,
Cameron Mann,
Evan Rice and
Corey George combined to throw the final 2.2 innings, with Mann getting tagged for three runs and Rice getting hit with two. The four hurlers combined to allow five hits.
