SE Suffers First GAC Losses to HU

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern stranded 20 runners over two games and saw its 15 game winning streak and a perfect conference record come to an end in losses of 6-3 and 7-4 to Harding on Saturday afternoon at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
The losses dropped the Savage Storm to 18-89 overall and 14-2 in Great American Conference play with the final two games in the series set for noon on Sunday.
 
A four-run top of the first inning was SE's undoing in game one as the Bisons had a pair of triples in the inning and opened up a 4-0 lead.
 
The Storm would cut into it with a Mykaela Wallace RBI single in the second to make it 4-1.
 
HU would add a run in the third for a 5-1 lead, but the Storm answered again with another Wallace RBI to make it 5-2.
 
The Bisons added one more run on an RBI double in the top of the fourth, and again Southeastern answered with a RBI groundout to make it 6-3 which would hold to be the final as neither team would get on the board in the final three innings.
 
Destiny Riddle, Sydney Kramer, Jordyn James and Wallace each recorded a hit, with Wallace driving in two and Riddle adding one of her own.
 
Jessica Seay got the start and was saddled with the loss after tossing 3.1 innings and allowing five runs on six hits.
 
Riddle tossed 2.0 innings in relief and allowed a run on a hit, with Hunter Offill adding 1.2 innings of work without allowing a run or a hit.
 
In game two Riddle posted a 3-for-3 outing with a pair of RBI, while Laramie Beal added a pair of hits.
 
Four others added one hit each as the Storm tallied nine on the game.
 
Keeshia Thompson drove in a run in addition to Riddle's two RBI.
 
Emily Cudd got the start and took the loss after tossing 4.2 innings and allowing five runs on eight hits with four strikeouts.
 
Seay was hit for a pair of unearned runs on a hit in two-thirds of an inning, while Riddle came on to throw 1.2 innings and allowed no runs on two hits with one K.
 
HU opened up a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but this time Southeastern had an answer in the second when Riddle connected on a two-run double up the middle to score Conner Harmon and Thompson.
 
However, a three-run homer for the Bisons in the top of the third would wing the lead back in their favor at 4-2.
 
Harmon would score on an error after a Riddle hit in the fourth to close the gap to 4-3.
 
Unfortunately, HU would add a run in the fifth and two more in the sixth to open up a 7-3 lead.
 
A Thompson RBI in the seventh would score Beal, but the Storm was unable to mount a proper rally in the 7-4 loss.