SE Sweeps Bisons in Friday Twinbill

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern collected 19 hits over two games and swept a Friday double-header over Harding, taking game one 4-2 before rallying for a 6-4 victory in the nightcap at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
The wins lift the Savage Storm to 14-8 overall and 6-4 in Great American Conference play, with the final two games of the series slated for a noon twinbill on Saturday afternoon.
 
Eight different hitters collected hits for the Savage Storm in game one, with Karsyn Brigance, Kyia Monahwee, Augusta Duty, and Tena Spoolstra each driving in a run.
 
Amberlyn Walsworth got the start in the circle and tossed 4.1 innings to pick up the win, allowing two runs on two hits with five strikeouts.
 
Katie McCullar picked up her fifth save of the year with 2.2 innings of scoreless work, allowing three hits and striking out four.
 
Symphoni Shomo led off the bottom of the first with a single and came around to score two batters later on a Brigance RBI single for a 1-0 lead.
 
The Bisons had an answer through as a one-out solo homer and a two-out RBI triple would put two runs on the board and the Storm would trail 2-1 until the bottom of the fourth inning.
 
In the fourth, Kady Fryrear led off the inning getting hit by a pitch and two batters later moved to third on a Kamarie Wallace single.
 
Fryrear would come home to tie the game on a squeeze bunt by Duty, and the Storm would take the lead a batter later when Spoolstra collected a bunt single which allowed Wallace to score to take a 302 lead.
 
A Monahwee double in the fifth inning would score Kennedy Salyers and give SE a 4-2 lead which would hold up as the final.
 
The Storm bets kept firing in game two as Fryrear, Ivy Amador, Duty, and Bailey Beard each collected two hits.
 
Amador would drive in a pair of runs, while Shomo, Brigance, and Duty each added an RBI.
 
Ashley Hedrick got the start and was stuck with a no decision after tossing 4.2 innings and allowing four runs, three earned, on six hits with two strikeouts.
 
McCullar would come on in relief and pick up the win after allowing no runs and scattering three hits with two K's over 2.1 innings.
 
Harding jumped to an early lead with a run in the second and two more in the third.
 
SE started its rally in the bottom of the fourth, closing the gap on a two-run single by Amador who would eventually come home as the game-tying run on a Shomo sac fly, knotting the game at 3-3.
 
HU would regain the lead with a run in the top of the fifth, but Duty would plate Fryrear on an RBI fielder's choice in the bottom of the fifth and SE would take a 5-4 lead as Wallace stole home on the hang up play.
 
Brigance would tack on an insurance run in the sixth on an RBI groundout that scored Beard to set he final at 6-4.