Baseball Drops Series Opener at SAU

Box Score MAGNOLIA, Ark. – After a two-week break from conference play Southeastern nearly knocked off league leading No. 4 Southern Arkansas, but was unable to take full advantage of three Mulerider errors and dropped the series opener on Saturday 2-1 in Magnolia, Ark.
 
The three game series was pushed back one day due to the threat of rain in Arkansas, and the final two games of the series will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 14-15 overall on the year and 6-10 in Great American Conference play.
 
Chevis Springer turned in SE's lone multi-hit outing, finishing 2-for-4 with a stolen base.
 
Evan Ramsey, Jacob Soisson, Chance Burcham and Cody Coats each picked up a hit, while a pinch-hitting Collin Sefcik drove in the team's run.
 
Canyon Conley got the start and was saddled with the loss after allowing a pair of runs on nine hits with six strikeouts in 6.2 innings pitched.
 
Mathew Benedict tossed 1.1 innings and held SAU top one hit.
 
The Mulerider struck first with a two-run single in the bottom of the third inning.
 
The Storm would respond in the seventh inning, taking advantage of a one-out Coats single.
 
Coats moved first-to-third on an error by the SAU second baseman and scored on a Sefcik sac fly to left to cut the gap to 2-1.
 
That was as close as the score would get as the Storm stranded four runners, one in scoring position, from the fourth inning on after falling behind.