SE Downs ECU in Series Opener, Game Two Suspended

Box Score DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern played a pair of marathon softball games against rival East Central on Tuesday afternoon at the Southeastern Softball Field, picking up an 8-5 win in the opener before seeing game two suspended after eight innings tied at 9-9 due to darkness.
 
The suspended game is scheduled to be completed in Ada, Okla., on April 6 when the teams meet to play the final game of their season series.
 
The win on Tuesday lifts the Savage Storm to 5-1 on the season and 3-1 in Great American Conference play heading into a non-conference double-header with Midwestern State at 2 p.m. on March 10 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
 
In game one, Augusta Duty collected the only two-hit outing for the Storm, while Kady Fryrear, Cheyenne Mahy, Kamarie Wallace, Jaleigh Durst, and Peyton Streetman each added a hit.
 
Wallace collected a pair of RBI, while Duty, Kyia Monahwee, and Durst each drove in one.
 
Amberlyn Walsworth picked up the win, tossing a complete game 7.0 innings and allowing five runs, three earned, on six hits with 10 strikeouts.
 
SE jumped ahead in the bottom of the first, taking the first lead on a Wallace double that scored Duty and extending it to 2-0 on a Monahwee groundout which plated a pinch-running Micayla Galloway.
 
The Storm tacked on in the second inning first with Durst coming around to score on a wild pitch. The Storm continued as Duty, Mahy, and Wallace laid down bunts in-a-row, with Duty going for a single with an RBI with another run scoring on an error, while Mahy and Wallace each recorded sac hits, with Wallace driving in a run to push the lead to 6-0.
 
ECU would tack on a run in the third and another in the fourth, but Streetman would come home on a wild pitch in the fourth to make the lead 7-2.
 
After the Tigers added a run in the top of the fifth, it was a Durst homer in the bottom half to answer and make the lead 8-3.
 
ECU would pick up a run in the sixth and another in the seventh to make the final score 8-5.
 
In the suspended game SE had collected nine runs on 13 hits, but the Tigers had rallied from a six-run deficit to tie the game at 9-9 in the top of the seventh and force extra innings.
 
The game was suspended due to darkness following the completion of the eighth inning with the score still tied at 9-9.