Morrow Homer Lifts SE to Comeback Win Over UAM

DURANT, Okla. – No. 25 Southeastern recovered from a slow start and Seth Morrow connected on a three-run opposite-field home run in the bottom of the eighth to rally the Savage Storm to a 5-4 win over Arkansas-Monticello on Friday afternoon at Mike Metheny Field.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 20-4 overall on the season and 11-2 in Great American Conference play with the final two games of the series slated for a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday.
 
The SE offense struggled over the first seven innings as they were held hitless into the eighth inning.
 
The Storm played the contest missing four of its top five hitters, and it showed throughout much of the game as Matt Miles, Seth Morrow, and Joseph Ramirez each recorded one hit to account for the three total hits the Storm collected after coming into the contest leading the league as a team in batting average.
 
However, they made those hits count as Morrow finished the contest with four RBI, three of them on the go-ahead homer, while Miles also drove in a run while breaking up the no hitter in the bottom of the eighth.
 
SE was able to make its comeback due to the pitching staff's efforts to limit the Boll Weevils.
 
Dylan Turner got the start and took a no decision after tossing 4.2 innings and was tagged for four runs, three of them earned, on six hits with three strikeouts.
 
Logan Teske would come on in relief on his way to his fourth win of the season as he tossed 3.2 inning without allowing a run and scattered two hits while striking out five.
 
Jackson Sioson would then come on in the ninth and strike out two of the three batters he faced to record his seventh save which ties him for the top spot nationally.
 
While the Storm found hits hard to come by they would still get baserunners as UAM's starter would walk five batters, with SE cashing in on the very first of those as Miles drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the first inning.
 
He would move to second on a Richard Ware sac bunt and take third on a throwing error by the pitcher on a failed pick off play before a Morrow RBI groundout would give the Storm a 1-0 lead.
 
The Weevils found an answer in the top of the second with a solo homer to knot the game at 1-1.
 
A true pitcher's duel ensued until the top of the fifth when UAM would score three runs on four hits and take advantage of an SE error to plate three runs and take a 4-1 lead.
 
It would remain there until the bottom of the eighth, with a pinch-hitting Hayden Evans drawing a walk with Dylan Herd doing the same to leadoff the inning.
 
Miles would then come through with the team's first hit, a roller up the middle that would bring home Evans to close the gap to 4-2.
 
Two batters later Morrow would connect on a three-run homer over the left field wall to give the Storm a 5-4 lead that would hold up as the final.