Storm Baseball Falls in Home Opener

DURANT, Okla. – Errors proved costly as Southeastern dropped its home opener 12-4 on Tuesday afternoon against Northwest Missouri State at The Ballpark in Durant.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 1-3 overall on the year heading into a four-game home weekend series against Washburn beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday.
 
Bryce Deatherage turned in a three-hit outing to pace SE while adding a pair of RBI, with Colton Buckner adding a solo homer.
 
Davis Jenks, Joseph Cerda, and Luke Thomas each added a hit, while Thomas accounted for the remaining RBI.
 
Collin Jameson got the start on the hill and was stuck with the loss after allowing five runs, four earned, on five hits in 2.1 innings of work.
 
Jordan Compton followed in relief with 1.2 innings pitched and allowed a run on three hits.
 
Jacob Bigham had the most effective outing, tossing scoreless 2.2 innings and scattering four hits while striking out three.
 
Beau Swimmer followed with 1.1 scoreless innings before Kenneth Klier came on and was tagged for five runs in one-third of an inning.
 
Hunter Capps would finish out the day, allowing an unearned run on a hit in two-thirds of an inning.
 
The Bearcats took advantage of a pair of Southeastern errors in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead on a Derek Hussey sac fly, plating an unearned run.
 
The Storm struck back in the bottom of the second inning, opening the frame with a leadoff homer from Buckner to tie the game at 1-1.
 
Cerda would add a single and move to second when Bolin was hit by a pitch, and both came around to score two batters later on a Deatherage two-run single through the left side to open a 3-1 lead.
 
NWMSU would respond in the top of the third as the Bearcats put together four runs on five hits to go up 5-3 before adding a run in the fifth to extend the lead to 6-3 midway through the fifth.
 
Both teams were scoreless in the sixth and seventh innings before the Storm got back on the board in the bottom of the eighth, taking advantage of back-to-back two-out walks with Thomas collecting an RBI single to right to plate Buckner and close the deficit to 6-4.
 
NWMSU would take advantage of a pair of SE miscues un the top of the ninth to put up six runs and stretch its lead to 12-4 which would hold to be the final.