SE Season Ends at GAC Tournament

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The bad firsts continued for Southeastern on Thursday night as they fell to rival East Central 9-4 in an elimination game, marking the first time the Savage Storm have not won a game in the Great American Conference Tournament.
 
The loss brings SE's final record to 29-23 on the year.
 
ECU scored all nine of its runs in the fourth inning as the Storm held them off the scoreboard in every other frame, but was unable to answer with enough runs to overcome the deficit.
 
Southeastern got on the board first with a two-run Laramie Beal double which drove in Sydney Kramer and Destiny Riddle for an early 2-0 lead in the third.
 
It was the bottom of the fourth when things began to unravel as a pair of RBI singles for the Tigers would tie the game, followed by a grand slam to open up a 6-2 lead.
 
An RBI groundout and a two-run homer would complete the inning and put the Storm in a 9-2 hole.
 
Kramer would drive in Mykaela Wallace with a single to right in the seventh and Destiny Riddle would score on a Beal sac fly, but that would be the end of the rally in the 9-4 loss.
 
Kramer and Wallace each posted a pair of hits, while Jessica Simmons, Riddle, Beal and Keeshia Thompson added one apiece.
 
Beal drove in three of the four runs with Kramer supplying the other.
 
Emily Cudd got the start and took the loss after allowing four runs on eight hits in 3.0 innings of work.
 
Jessica Seay recorded an out and faced four batters and was tagged for three runs on three hits, with Riddle following to face five batters and record two outs while allowing a pair of runs on three hits.
 
Hunter Offill would round out the Storm pitching appearances with 2.0 innings of work while allowing one hits and striking out one.