SE Closes Series with Pair of One-Run Losses

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern twice rallied from deficit on Saturday, only to see its bad luck continue as it fell to Arkansas-Monticello in a pair of games by single runs, dropping game on 11-10 before closing the series with a 6-5 loss at Mike Metheny Field,
 
The losses drop the Savage Storm to 6-8 overall on the season and 0-6 to open Great American conference play, with five of the six losses coming by just one run and the other by two runs.
 
In game one, Cameron Cromer, Nick Hill, Reid Rice, Cory Bonstrom, Wesley Mitchell, and Yanluis Ortiz each logged a hit.
 
Hill and Ortiz would each homer, with Hill finishing with three RBI, while Cromer, Rice, Bonstrom, Ortiz, and Dylan Herd each drove in a run.
 
Dyla Turner got the start and was saddled with the loss after tossing 3.1 innings and allowing seven runs, six earned, on seven hits with two strikeouts.
 
Charlie Deeds threw two-thirds of an inning and allowed three runs on four hits.
 
Hayden Alexander would toss three innings and allow an unearned run on three hits with three strikeouts.
 
Jared Barta followed with a scoreless inning, allowing one hit, with Brody Logsdon closing the game with a scoreless inning.
 
UAM would take a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but the Storm would get a run back in the bottom half when Damon Burroughs stole home and inched closer in the third on a Hill solo homer.
 
The Boll Weevils would tack on four runs in the fourth to take a 7-2 lead, but Southeastern answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth to bring the score to 7-5.
 
UAM would add a three-run homer in the fifth, pushing the lead to 10-5, with Rice answering for the Storm in the sixth on a sac fly to close to 10-6.
 
The Weevils would tack on a run in the seventh to take an 11-6 lead, and the Storm would mount a rally with three runs in the seventh and an Ortiz solo homer in the ninth to close the gap to 11-10, but that is where the game would end.
 
In the finale, Welsey Mitchell posted a pair of hits, with Cromer, Hill, Rice, Matt Miles, and Cam Wheeler each turning in a hit.
 
Rice, Miles, Bonstrom, and Herd each drove in a run.
 
Jackson Sioson got the start and tossed five innings, allowing four runs on five hits with three strikeouts in a no decision.
 
Brody Logsdon would toss the final two innings and was tagged with the loss after allowing two unearned runs on one hit with two K's.
 
UAM posted four runs in the top of the first to mount an early lead.
 
SE would answer in the third, tying the game at 4-4 on RBI's by Miles, Bonstrom, and Herd.
 
Rice would double home Cromer in the fourth to put the Storm in front 5-4.
 
That would hold until the sixth when UAM took advantage of an SE error to sore two runs which would be the difference in a 6-5 final.