SE Holds On For Series-Opening Win over NWOSU

DURANT, Okla. – Dylan Turner turned in his longest outing of the season and Jackson Sioson would pick up his sixth save of the season as Southeastern would hold off a late Northwestern Oklahoma State rally for an 8-6 victory in the series opener on Saturday afternoon at Mike Metheny Field.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 17-4 on the season and 8-2 in Great American Conference play with the final two games of the series slated for a Sunday afternoon doubleheader set for 12 p.m. back at Mike Metheny Field.
 
Turner got his first start of the season and took advantage of the opportunity, tossing 7.0 innings and allowing two runs on four hits with four strikeouts. It was his longest appearance of the season and of his career at SE as he parlayed it into his third win of the season.
 
Hayden Alexander was tagged for an unearned run on two hits in an inning of work, followed by Kenneth Klier who tossed two-thirds of an inning, allowing three runs on four hits with one strikeout.
 
Sioson would then come on and record the final out to pick up his sixth save of the season.
 
Blake McQuain, Seth Morrow, and Dylan Herd each recorded tow hits, while eight hitters picked up at least one hit on the day for the Storm.
 
McQuain and Brett Gonzalez each logged doubles, with Herd adding a triple and Reid Rice connecting on his ninth home run of the season.
 
Cameron French and Bryce McDermott each drove in a pair of runs, while McQuain, Richard Ware, Rice, and Herd each added one RBI.
 
Rice's solo homer would put the Storm on the board in the bottom of the second inning, but that was just the beginning in the inning as McDermott followed with a two-run single to drive in Gonzalez and French to take s 3-0 lead.
 
McDermott would come home a batter later on a Herd triple, and Herd would push the lead to 5-0 when he scored on a McQuain RBI groundout.
 
French would put a pair of runs on the board in the fifth with a two-run single to drive in McQuain and Morrow, stretching the lead to 7-0.
 
A Ware RBI single in the sixth would push that lead to 8-0.
 
The Rangers would score three runs in the eighth and three more in the top of the ninth to mount a rally, but SE would hold off the charge for the 8-6 win.