Softball Takes Series Over SAU with 5-4 Win

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern closed out the regular season by pulling out the rubber-match victory over Southern Arkansas on Friday afternoon, winning the series with a 5-4 victory at the Southeastern Softball Field.

The win lifts the Savage Storm to 25-27 overall on the season and 17-16 in Great American Conference play heading into the league's postseason tournament which begins on May 2 in Bentonville, Ark.
 
Reese Taylor collected a pair of hits with an RBI, while Sage Harlow added two hits of her own.
 
Gracie Ore added a hit and drove in two runs, while Sabetha Sands, Ananda Garrison, Kennedy Morgan, and Sammi Dutton each logged hits.
 
Garrison and Morgan would each add RBI as well.
 
Amberlyn Walsworth got the start and went the distance in the victory, allowing four runs on nine hits with five strikeouts over seven innings.
 
Southern Arkansas took the lead in the top of the second inning on a solo homer and pushed its lead to 2-0 on an RBI double.
 
Taylor would put the Storm on the board in the bottom of the third with an RBI double to plate Kady Fryrear, cutting the deficit to 2-1.
 
SE would take the lead in the bottom of the fourth when Harlow and Kamryn Rackley both scored on an Ore RBI double, jumping in front 3-2 after four innings.
 
SAU came right back, first with a game-tying RBI double followed by an RBI single to take a 4-3 lead midway through the fifth inning.
 
But the Storm would again respond, first tying the game on an RBI single from Garrison to score Taylor.
 
Morgan would then pinch hit later in the fifth, laying down a perfect squeeze bunt which scored Sands to take a 5-4 lead which would hold up as the final.