SE Drops Series Finale to SWOSU

DURANT, Okla. – Despite outhitting Southwestern Oklahoma State for the game, Southeastern came out on the wrong end of a 7-5 score in the rubber-match between the schools in the series at The Ballpark in Durant on Saturday afternoon.
 
The Savage Storm slipped to 7-6 overall and 3-3 in Great American Conference play which has them in fifth place two weekends into the conference schedule.
 
SE will be home for one more weekend in league play when it hosts Henderson State Feb. 27-28 for a three game series at The Ballpark in Durant.
 
The Storm fell behind early as the visiting Bulldogs put up a run it he first and another in the second for a 2-0 lead.
 
SE answered in the bottom of the second, first with a Brayon Colley RBI single that scored Jacob Soisson, and then knotting the score at 2-2 one batter later when a Kaleb Thomas double scored Colley from first.
 
Helms traded places with Thomas to put the Storm up 3-2 and Collin Sefcik finished the scoring with an RBI single that scored Helms for a 4-2 lead.
 
Neither team would get back on the board until SWOSU posted three runs in the top of the fifth inning to take a 5-4 lead and extended it to 7-4 with two more in the top of the seventh.
 
A Cody Coats double in the bottom of the seventh would score Sefcik, but that would be all the runs the Storm would put up as they fell 7-5.
 
Brady Colbert got the start, his first of the season, and dropped to 2-1 after allowing seven runs, five earned, in 6.1 innings pitched with eight strikeouts.
 
Keyton Jameson tossed the final 2.1 innings without allowing a hit and striking out six.
 
Thomas, Helms, Chance Burcham and Colley each posted a pair of hits, while Sefcik, Corban Taylor, Coats and Soisson added one each.
 
As a team, the Storm held a 12-to-8 edge in hits, but committed three errors with two unearned runs proving to be the difference in the final score.
 
Thomas, Helms, Sefcik, Coats and Colley each drove in one run.