Baseball Opens Final Weekend with Huge Win

DURANT, Okla. – Reid Rice connected on a second-inning grand slam and Southeastern never looked back on its way to an 18-1 win over rival East Central on Friday afternoon at Mike Metheny Field.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 16-32 overall on the year and 6-25 in Great American Conference play with the final two games slated to commence on Saturday at 11 a.m.
 
Rice would finish the day 3-for-4 with a homer and two doubles while driving in seven runs to power the SE offense.
 
Matt Miles also picked up three hits, one double, and drove in three runs.
 
Wesley Mitchell finished with a pair of hits and two RBI, while Cache Stone, Coby Grimsley, and Cory Bonstrom tallied a hit each.
 
Brady Evans, Cameron Cromer, Stone, Bonstrom, and Dylan Herd each drove in a run.
 
Cameron Hauch got the start and collected the win after tossing five shutout innings, allowing two hits while striking out three.
 
Colby Kroutil tossed a scoreless inning in relief, while Coby Langford allowed a run on two hits in his one inning of work.
 
SE would bring home three runs on an HBP, an ECU error, and a Mitchell single to second base, setting the table for Rice who would connect on a grand slam to push the Savage Storm out to a 7-0 lead through two innings.
 
In the bottom of the third the first two batters reached on hit by pitches, and the Storm would bring home two more runs on a Rice RBI double down the left field line, pushing the lead to 9-0.
 
Later in the inning, Miles would drive in Rice and after reloading the bases, Herd would draw an RBI walk and Evans would push home a run on an error, taking a 12-0 lead through three innings.
 
Miles would drive in a run on a single up the middle in the bottom of the fourth, pushing the advantage to 13-0.
 
Mitchell would get the scoring moving again in the fifth with an RBI single, followed by RBI from Rice, Stone, Miles, and Bonstrom, taking an 18-0 lead after five innings.
 
The Tigers would pick up a run in the top of the seventh, but the Storm would trigger the run rule and pick up the 18-1 victory.