SE Sweeps Mustangs in Road Twinbill

WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Southeastern hitters collected 18 hits over two games while the pitching staff allowed just two runs over two games en route to a sweep of Midwestern State on Wednesday, taking game one 3-1 before winning game two 9-1 in five innings in Wichita Falls, Texas.
 
The sweep lifts the Savage Storm to 7-1 overall on the season as they prepare to jump back into Great American conference play against Northwestern Oklahoma State with a doubleheader slated for 10 a.m. on March 12 and a single game to end the series at 10 a.m. March 13 at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
Southeastern's pitching took center stage in the opener as Ashley Hedrick picked up her first win after tossing 5.0 innings and allowing one run on seven hits with four strikeouts.
 
Amberlyn Walsworth closed out the contest and earned her first save by scattering three hits over two scoreless innings with three strikeouts.
 
Augusta Duty collected three hits, while six others turned in one apiece in the opener, while Duty and Alexis Lambert each had an RBI.
 
The Storm got on the board in the first inning by taking advantage of a MSU error that allowed Kady Fryrear to score.
 
In the second inning, a Lambert RBI double and a Duty RBI single would tack on two more runs for a 3-0 lead.
 
The Mustangs would get one back in the bottom of the sixth, but the Storm would hold on for the 3-1 victory.
 
Not to be outdone in the nightcap, Micayla Galloway went the distance, tossing 5.0 innings and allowing a run on six hits with two strikeouts to move to 1-1 on the season.
 
Peyton Streetman and Gracie Ore each collected a pair of hits, while Fryrear, Cheyenne Mahy, Kamarie Wallace, Kyia Monahwee, and Lauren White had one apiece.
 
Ore would tack on three RBI, while Streetman and White drove in two each. Karissa Marshall added an RBI in the effort.
 
An Ore double got the Storm on the board in the top of the second inning and a White RBI sac bunt would plate Streetman to make the lead 2-0.
 
MSU would cut that in half with a solo homer in the bottom of the second.
 
The Storm would answer in a big way in the third, first with Marshall driving in Galloway on a bases-loaded hit by pitch.
 
A Streetman two-run single would follow, scoring Monahwee and Wallace before Ore connected on her own two-run single to plate Streetman and Lambert, stretching the lead to 7-1.
 
Bailey Beard would tack on a run in the fourth when she stole home to push the advantage to 8-1.
 
A White homer in the top of the fifth would provide the final run necessary to trigger the 9-1 run-rule win in five innings.