Rally Lifts Storm Past OBU in Extras

Box Score DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern rallied from five runs down to send the game to extra inning where Collin Sefcik turned in a walk-off sac fly that scored Cody Coats to pull out the 7-6 come-from-behind victory over Ouachita Baptist on Friday afternoon at The Ballpark in Durant.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 5-5 overall on the year and evens their Great American Conference record at 2-2.
 
The loss drops the Tigers to 8-5 on the year and 3-1 in GAC play.
 
The teams will meet for a noon double-header on Saturday afternoon to decide the series.
 
Jacob Carter got the rally started in the bottom of the ninth with the team trailing 6-1 by drawing a walk with one out.
 
An error on a Trevor Bowen fielder's choice one batter later left runners at the corners which allowed Ryan Salter to connect on a pinch-hit single to right that plated Carter and trimmed the deficit to 6-2.
 
OBU then brought on its closer in an attempt to stem the tide, but Coats would get hit by a pitch as the first batter to face Keegan Ghidotti to load the bases.
 
Chevis Springer then drew an RBI walk to cut the deficit to 6-3, which was promptly followed by a Cade Clay two-run single that scored Coats and Salter.
 
OBU would coax a fly out by Chance Burcham, but a fielding error by the Tiger shortstop on a ball put in play by Sefcik allowed Springer to score the tying run, knotting the score at 6-6.
 
OBU would put a runner on in the 10^th and two more in the 11^th, but were unable to move them around.
 
After going down in order in the 10^th, SE opened the 11^th with Coats reaching on a hit by pitch.
 
He moved to second on a Springer single through the right side, and two batters later a Burcham single would load the bases with one out.
 
That's when Sefcik lofted a fly ball into left field which was snagged by the left fielder and hurled to the plate without a relay, getting to its destination just behind a sliding Coats, allowing the Storm to collect the 7-6 victory.
 
Burcham and Carter collected the only multi-hit outings for SE, finishing with two each while six others picked up a hit each.
 
Clay drove in a pair of runs, while Springer, Sefcik, Salter and Coats each added an RBI.
 
Mason Crenshaw was credited with the win after tossing the final two innings without allowing a run on three hits with three strikeouts, moving to 2-0 on the year.
 
Jonathan Furlong got the start and threw 6.0 innings, allowing six runs, just two of which were earned, on eight hits with a pair of K's.
 
Nick Johnson relieved Furlong with 2.0 innings of work, allowing a hit and striking out two, while Jonathan Dailey tossed one inning of three-up-three-down baseball.
 
OBU put up a pair of RBI singles in the fourth to mount a 2-0 lead which stretched to 3-0 after an error allowed a run to come in.
 
The Storm got a run back in the fifth on a Coats single that scored Carter.
 
The Tigers would push their edge out further in the sixth by taking advantage of a pair of SE errors that allowed three runs to come in, all unearned, to mount the 6-1 lead which held into the ninth inning.