SE Splits to Open Final Home Series

Softball | 4/21/2017 6:24:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern nearly rallied from a five-run deficit in game one, but fell short in a 6-5 loss to Oklahoma Baptist, but made up for it in the nightcap as Emily7 Cudd came out on top of a 2-1 pitcher's duel to split a Friday doubleheader at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
The Savage Storm move to 17-29 overall and 11-25 in Great American Conference play with the final two home games of the season set for Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.
 
In the day's finale it was Cudd who tossed 6.2 innings and allowed one run while scattering seven hits with a pair of strikeouts to earn the win.
 
Destiny Riddle would face one batter and retire her on a groundout.
 
Offensively, Mykaela Wallace turned in a 3-for-3 effort at the plate with a run scored, while Riddle added a pair of hits and an RBI.
 
Cudd would record the remaining hit.
 
Riddle would put the Storm on the board with an RBI single in the first to plate Symphoni Shomo for the 1-0 edge.
 
Wallace would come around to make it 2-0 in the second when a sac bunt by Cudd was misplayed by the OBU defense.
 
The Bison would get a solo homer in the third to cut into the SE lead, but the Storm would hold on for the 2-1 victory.
 
Riddle added a 3-for-4 outing in the opener with a pair of RBI, while Shomo and Kennedy Salyers each tallied a pair of hits, with four others picking up one each.
 
Salyers, Keeshia Thompson and Conner Harmon would each add an RBI as well.
 
Riddle would also take the loss in the circle after allowing six runs, four earned, on 14 hits in 7.0 innings pitched.
 
A Riddle RBI single in the bottom of the first was the only SE highlight over the first six innings as OBU pulled out to a 6-1 lead by scoring in all but the fifth and the seventh innings.
 
Cudd would open the seventh with a single for the Storm two batters later Brittany Chatellier would collect a one-out single and cue up five-straight single which would start the merry-go-round moving on the base paths and close the Storm to a 6-4 deficit.
 
A Harmon groundout would bring home the fifth run and move runners to second and third with two outs, but the Storm rally would come to an end there in a 6-5 loss.