Baseball Drops Series Opener at HSU

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Southeastern stranded 12 runners and was plagued by four errors on its way to a series-opening loss at Henderson State on Friday night, falling 16-6 in Arkadelphia, Ark.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 8-15 overall and 1-12 in Great American Conference play with the final two games of the series et for a 1 p.m. twinbill on Saturday afternoon.
 
Austin Thorp collected a pair of hits to lead SE, while Damon Burroughs, Cache Stone, Reid Rice, Matt Miles, Coby Grimsley, Yanluis Ortiz, and Cameron Cromer each added a hit.
 
Burroughs, Thorp, Stone, Rice, and Ortiz each logged an RBI.
 
Dylan Turner got the start and took the loss after allowing six runs, five earned, on five hits in 1.1 innings pitched with one strikeout.
 
Colby Kroutil followed with 2.0 innings of work and allowed three runs, two earned, on five hits.
 
Jaden Lewis had the longest outing of any Storm pitcher, going 4.0 innings and allowing three runs, two earned, on three hits with four strikeouts.
 
Bristol Carson and Payton Heinley would each appear in the final inning without recording an out, with Carson allowing three runs on a hit while Heinley was tagged for a run on a hit.
 
Southeastern struck first as Burroughs would cash in on a leadoff walk after stealing second, moving to third on a groundout and coming home on a wild pitch for the 1-0 lead in the top of the first.
 
HSU would answer in the bottom half, scoring on an RBI single, a sac fly, and a Storm error to take a 3-1 lead.
 
Burroughs would drive home a run in the top of the second on a sac fly to close the gap to 3-2, but the Reddies would connect on a three-run homer in the bottom half to push their lead to 6-2 after two innings.
 
An Ortiz sac fly in the top of the third would cut the deficit to 6-3, but again HSU would pick up a run, taking a 7-3 lead.
 
Stone would triple home a run in the top of the fourth and would score a batter later on a Reid Rice single, closing the gap to 7-5 midway through four.
 
The Reddies would add two runs in the bottom half and tack on another in the bottom of the sixth to take a 10-5 lead.
 
Thorp would drive in Burroughs to make the score 10-6 in the top of the eighth inning.
 
HSU would answer with six runs in the bottom half to trigger the run rule in a 16-6 final score.