ADA, Okla. – Southeastern opened the day by closing out a10-9 victory over rival East Central in 11 innings in a game that had been suspended form earlier in the season before finishing off the season-sweep with a 3-2 win on Tuesday afternoon in Ada, Okla.
The wins lift the Savage Storm to 25-4 overall on the season and 15-3 in Great American Conference play heading into a league-series against Southwestern Oklahoma State April 9-10 in Weatherford, Okla.
The Storm opened the day by finishing a game the teams began on March 9 in Durant, but were unable to finish due to darkness.
That game was suspended tied at 9-9 after eight innings.
The game resumed to little change over the ninth and 10
th innings, with both teams going down in order over that span, but a
Kady Fryrear single would lead off the bottom of the 11
th inning, and she would go first-to-third on a
Bailey Beard bunt single.
The game would come to an end a batter later when
Cheyenne Mahy would drive in Fryrear with a sac fly to right for the game-winning run in a 10-9 decision.
Fryrear would finish the 11-innign game 4-for-6 with four RBI and three runs scored, including the game winner, while Beard checked in with three hits and a pair of RBI.
Kamarie Wallace added two hits, while Mahy,
Taylor Battiest,
Kyia Monahwee,
Gracie Ore,
Karissa Marshall, and
Peyton Streetman each recorded a hit.
Wallace would drive in a pair of runs, while Mahy and
Augusta Duty plated one each.
Mahy got the start in the contest way back on March 9 and would toss 5.1 inings but was dinged for eight runs, seven earned, on 10 hits with six strikeouts in a no decision.
Amberlyn Walsworth would come on in relief and toss 5.2 innings and allowed a run on two hits while striking out nine.
Combined the Storm pitchers recorded 15 strikeouts and just one walk.
A Wallace single in the third inning would open scoring in the contest, but ECU would swipe the lead in the top of the fourth on a solo homer and an RBI double.
An RBI double by Fryrear and a two-run double by Beard would swing the score back in SE's favor at 4-2 after four innings.
The Tigers cut into the lead with an RBI single in the fifth, but Southeastern would post five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning thanks to a solo Wallace homer and a three run shot by Fryrear to open up a 9-3 lead.
ECU answered with five runs in the top of the sixth and would knot the game with a solo homer in the seventh inning, sending the game to extra innings and setting up the suspension and resumption in Ada.
In the series finale that was originally schedule for Tuesday, SE got a pair of hits each from Duty and Streetman, while Monahwee, Wallace, and
Jaleigh Durst had one each.
Monahwee and Streetman each had homers, while Wallace added a double.
Walsworth got the start in the circle and picked up her second win of the day after tossing 6.1 innings and allowing two runs on eight hits with three strikeouts. The win moves her to 12-1 on the year.
Mahy would come on and record the final two outs to earn her second save of the season.
Streetman put the Storm on the board in the top of the second inning with a solo homer to right field.
That lead stretched to 3-0 in the top of the third as Monahwee would connect on her fifth home runs of the season, this one a two-run shot that scored a pinch-running
Brooklyn Field.
ECU would chip away with a run in the fourth and would add another run in the seventh and had a runner on second with the winning run at the plate when Mahy coaxed a groundout to end the game in a 3-2 Storm win.
