Softball Splits at UAM Saturday

MONTICELLO, Ark. – Southeastern split a pair of pitcher's duels on Saturday afternoon in Monticello, Ark., taking the series opener 3-1 before dropping the nightcap 2-1.
 
The split moves the Savage Storm to 28-20 overall and 24-14 in Great American Conference play and locks SE into0t he number three seed in next week's GAC Postseason tournament in Bentonville, Ark.
 
The series will conclude with a double-header on Sunday afternoon beginning at noon in Monticello, Ark.
 
Emily Cudd got the win in the opener for her 13^th of the year after tossing 6.1 innings without allowing a run on five hits with one strikeout.
 
Jessica Seay faced five batters and recorded two-third of an inning, allowing a run on a hit with a strikeout.
 
Jessica Simmons, Sydney Kramer and Laramie Beal collected all of the Storm's three hits, with Destiny Riddle and Beal driving in two of the team's three runs.
 
A Beal RBI single scored Kramer in the fourth for the team's first run and they added two more when Riddle laid down a squeeze bunt to score Conner Harmon, but an error on the play also allowed Simmons to come home for a 3-0 lead.
 
UAM would get a solo home in the top of the seventh, but the Storm would hold on for the 3-1 win.
 
The nightcap was even closer as a Mykaela Wallace homer put SE up 1-0 in the third, but the Cotton Blossoms answered with a tying run in the bottom half of the inning.
 
A sixth inning solo homer by UAM would be the difference in the 2-1 loss.
 
Wallace went 3-for-3 in the game with her solo homer as the Storm collected nine hits but only mustered one run while stranding six base runners.
 
Seay tossed 4.1 innings and allowed a run on three hits with a pair of strikeouts, but it was Cudd who would take the loss after tossing 1.2 innings and allowing the other run on one hit with one K.