Softball Cruises to Sweep of OBU

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Southeastern outscored Ouachita Baptist 21-4 over two games en route to a sweep of the rain-shortened season series on Monday afternoon in Arkadelphia, Ark.
 
The Savage Storm improve to 18-6 overall and 14-0 in Great American Conference play and stretch their winning streak to 15 games.
 
In the opener the Storm collected 17 hits and scored in five of the seven innings.
 
Sydney Kramer posted a 4-for-5 outing I the contest with two RBI, while Jessica Simmons added three hits.
 
Laramie Beal, Jordyn James and Conner Harmon each added two hits while every Storm starter collected a hit.
 
Kramer, Beal, James and Keeshia Thompson each had two RBI.
 
Jessica Seay got the start and collected the win after tossing three scoreless inning and scattering two hits among four strikeouts.
 
Destiny Riddle allowed a run on two hits in two innings of work, while Hunter Offill allowed a run in one inning and Ashley Moore retired the side in order in one inning.
 
Kramer, Courtney Riddle and Mykaela Wallace each single home a run in the top of the first as SE staked a 3-0 lead.
 
Another Kramer RBI single in the second and a Thompson RBI groundou8t in the third stretched it to 5-0.
 
A two-run Beal homer with a Thompson RBI single in the fourth pushed the lead to 8-0.
 
OBU answered with a run in the fourth and another in the sixth before the Storm added a James two-run single in the seventh for the 10-2 win.
 
Southeastern got off to a slow start in the nightcap, falling behind 2-0 after three innings.
 
The Storm got one back in the fourth on a James solo homer and took the lead on a two-run Kramer home run in the fifth, going up 3-2.
 
SE would explode for eight runs in the sixth to force the run rule and earn the 11-2 win.
 
In that inning Harmon and Courtney Riddle would both post RBI doubles, Kramer would single in a run while Destiny Riddle sac flied in another.
 
James would cap it off with her second homer of the game, a three run shot to fashion he 11-2 final.
 
Kramer, Beal, Courtney Riddle, James and Harmon each tallied two-hit outings, with James driving in four runs to lead the offense.
 
Kramer added three RBI, while Courtney Riddle drove in two.
 
Emily Cudd got the start in the circle and tossed four innings, allowing a pair of runs on two hits with one K.
 
Seay would come on in relief and earn her ninth win of the year by tossing two innings and allowing no runs on two hits with one strikeout.