SE Finishes Off Series Sweep of Rangers

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern scored in all but the first inning with Alexis Lambert bringing the game to an early end with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth to trigger the run-rule in a 10-1 victory in five innings, finishing off the series sweep of Northwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday morning at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 10-1 on the year and 6-1 in Great American Conference play heading into a Monday afternoon single game against No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville at 2 p.m. at the Southeastern Softball Field.
 
Kyia Monahwee, Peyton Streetman, and Bailey Beard each picked up a pair of hits, while Kady Fryrear, Taylor Battiest, Lambert, Kamarie Wallace, and Lauren White each had one.
 
Lambert's hit went for a two-run homer to end the contest, while Beard's was a two-run triple which first gave the Storm the lead.
 
Both Beard and Lambert finished with two RBI, while Fryrear, Battiest, Augusta Duty, Monahwee, Wallace, and Streetman each drove in one.
 
SE stole four bases on the day, with Beard swiping two, and finished the series with 16 steals over three games as a team.
 
In the circle, Amberlyn Walsworth got the start and collected her second win of the series after allowing a run on three hits with three strikeouts over 4.0 innings. She improves to 5-0 on the season.
 
Cheyenne Mahy would toss the final inning without giving up a hit.
 
NWOSU took control out of the gate with a leadoff homer in the top of the first inning and for the first time in the series would carry a lead from one inning to the next.
 
That was as far as it would go however as Beard's two-out triple in the bottom of the second would score Karissa Marshall and Streetman to take a 2-1 lead.
 
It stretched to 3-1 a batter later when Fryrear connected on a hotshot that ricocheted off the pitcher's foot and allowed Beard to score.
 
In the third a Wallace single would score Monahwee and Wallace would score a batter later when Streetman doubled to left center, extending the lead to 5-1.
 
Duty would drive in Beard in the fourth inning on a squeeze bunt and a Monahwee RBI single two batters later would score Lambert who was pinch-running for Duty, pushing the edge to 7-1.
 
White would lead off the inning with a pinch-hit single, moving around to third on back-to-back groundouts.
 
She would then come home on a Battiest pinch-hit single to left center, pushing the lead to 8-1.
 
Lambert, who remained in the game after pinch-running, would come to the plate and connect on a two=-run homer, her first of the season, and trigger the run rule in a 10-1 win.