Softball Splits Saturday Twinbill

DURANT, Okla. – After a pair of run-rule wins on Friday, Southeastern found itself in more of a dogfight on Saturday, splitting a twinbill with Southwestern Oklahoma State, winning the opener 8-5 before dropping the series finale 5-4 at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
The split moves the Savage Storm to 15-10 overall and 9-3 in Great American Conference play.
 
In the opener Mykaela Walace turned in a three hit outing, while Keeshia Thompson, Sydnee Hinkle and Brittany Chatellier added two hits apiece.
 
Hinkle and Chatellier each posted two RBI, while Thompson, Elexis Watson, Wallace, and Kendyl Dockter each drove in one.
 
Kelsey Meeks collected the win after tossing a complete game and allowing five runs on 10 hits with three strikeouts.
 
SWOSU jumped out to a 4-0 lead with four RBI doubles in the second inning.
 
The Storm found its answer in the bottom of the fifth, first scoring a pair of runs on a Hinkle double, followed by a Dockter sac fly and a two-run double by Chatellier to open up a 5-4 lead.
 
The Bulldogs got a solo homer to tie the game in the top of the sixth, but Thompson, Watson, and Wallace would break the tie with back-to-back-to-back home runs to give SE the 8-5 win.
 
Destiny Riddle, Watson, and Chatellier each posted two hits in the finale, while Riddle and Watson collected an RBI apiece.
 
Riddle got the start and allowed three runs on eight hits over 3.1 innings of work and took a no decision.
 
Meeks would toss the final 3.2 innings in relief and take the loss after allowing two runs on five hits.
 
SE took a 2-0 lead in the first after an RBI single by Riddle and a double steal by Riddle and Wallace.
 
A SWOSU homer would cut the lead to 2-1, but a Watson RBI double in the third would push it back to a 3-1 advantage.
 
The Bulldogs would knot the game in the fourth with an RBI single and a wild pitch plating two runs.
 
Southeastern would retake the lead in the sixth when a pinch-running Marilyn Maas scored on a wild pitch.
 
However, SWOSU would get a two-run homer with two outs in the top of the seventh to swipe a 5-4 win.