Storm Run-Rule Bacone,16-2

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern picked up eight hits and 10 RBI as a team while taking advantage of six errors and 14 free passes en route to a 16-2 run-rule win over Bacone on Tuesday afternoon at Mike Metheny Field.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 8-8 overall on the season as they head back into Great American Conference play Feb. 28-29 with a three-game series against Arkansas Tech.
 
Richard Ware and Bryce McDermott each collected two hits to lead the way, with Ware putting up his fifth home run of the season.
 
Colton Buckner, Joseph Ramirez, Dylan Herd, and Joyal Savage each added a hit.
 
Ware, Buckner, Grant Bruce and McDermott drove in two runs apiece, while Anthony Cassos and Slayde Ortiz added an RBI each.
 
The Storm offense was aided by a GAC record nine hitters reaching on hit-by-pitches, including six from one pitcher. Coupled with five walks the Storm were awarded 14 free passes.
 
KC Bryan got the start and tossed 2.0 innings while allowing a run on a hit with three walks and three strikeouts.
 
Tyler McGrew would toss an inning in relief to follow and was also tagged for a run, his coming on two hits with a walk and one K.
 
Jordan Compton tossed the next inning and earned the win after striking out all three batters he faced.
 
Kenneth Klier followed and allowed one hit while striking out one.
 
Kason Grant pitched the sixth inning and set the Warriors down in order, as did Spence Wallace in the seventh, striking out two of the three he faced.
 
Buckner put SE on the board with a two-run double in the first which was followed by Buckner scoring on a throwing error on a Cassos stolen base.
 
The fourth run of the first inning came home when Cassos scored on a Bruce sac fly.
 
BC would cut the Storm lead in half though with a run in the second and another in the third to close to 4-2.
 
The SE offense got moving again in the fourth, with Ware driving in Herd when he reached on an error, and two batters later Cassos drew a bases-loaded walk to stretchy the lead to 6-2.
 
An Ortiz RBI groundout and a Bruce sac fly, his second of the game, would push the Southeastern advantage to 8-2 after four innings.
 
In the fifth two more runs would come home on a wild throw off a Chris Eusay sac bunt before Eusay himself would score on a wild pitch.
 
One batter later Ware would connect on a solo homer to push the lead to 12-2.
 
As the inning progressed the Storm would load the bases on single and two HBP before McDermott would plate Jacoby Adkins for a 13-2 lead. After five.
 
Ware would score his fourth run of the day in the sixth inning on a wild pitch and he was followed home by Capps on an error and Adkins who scored when McDermott was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to push the lead to 16-2 which would hold to be the final.