SE Rally Falls Short in Friday Loss at SNU

BETHANY, Okla. – Southeastern mounted a ninth-inning rally, putting up three runs with two outs in the top of the final frame, but saw its rally come up just short in an 8-7 loss to Southern Nazarene on Friday afternoon in Bethany, Okla.
 
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 10-25 overall and 3-19 in Great American Conference play with th final two game set for a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday.
 
Brady Evans and Austin Thorp each homered, with Thorp finishing the game with two hits and an RBI while Evans had just the one hits and drew two walks.
 
Cache Stone picked up two hits, while Damon Burroughs, Reid Rice, Cam Wheeler, Matt Miles, and Cameron Cromer each picked up a hit.
 
Cromer would drive in two runs, while Evans, Thorp, Stone, Wheeler, and Miles drove in one each.
 
Cameron Hauch got the start and took the loss after allowing five runs on nine hits with seven strike outs in 5.1 innings of work.
 
Coby Langford followed with 1.1 innings and allowed a run on two hits with three strikeouts.
 
Charlie Deeds added an inning of work, allowing two runs on three hits with two K's, while Michael Minaya tossed one-third of an inning with a strikeout.
 
SNU would take a 2-0 lead in the second, but an Evans homer and an RBI double by Stone in the third would knot the game at 2-2.
 
A Crimson Storm solo homer would put SNU in front 3-2 in the fifth, but a Cromer two-run double in the sixth would put SE in front 4-3.
 
Southern Nazarene would put up five runs from the sixth to the eighth innings, taking an 8-4 lead into the ninth.
 
Thorp would begin the rally with a homer, followed by an RBI double from Wheeler and a Miles RBI single to close the gap to 8-7 which would be the final tally.