Baseball Splits Sunday Twinbill Versus SWOSU

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern connected on five homers en route to an 18-7 run-rule win in the series opener versus Southwestern Oklahoma State on Sunday afternoon at Mike Metheny Field, but were unable to carry that momentum into game two, falling 6-4.
 
The split moves the Savage Storm to 15-22 overall on the season and 11-12 in Great American Conference play with the series finale set for 1 p.m. on Monday afternoon.
 
In game one, all 10 batter who came to the plate for Southeastern collected hits, led by four-hit outings by Wesley Mitchell and Chase Keeton.
 
Nick Mueller and Austin Thorp each picked up two hits, while Brady Evans, Colton Sagely, Payton Poole, Jake Miller, Alex Showalter, and Ryan Kirk all added one apiece.
 
Mueller homered twice, with Mitchell, Keeton, and Thorp adding one each.
 
Thorp added a triple in the game, while Mitchell, Keeton, Poole, and Showalter each doubled.
 
Mitchell and Mueller finished the contest with four RBI each, with Keeton and Poole driving in three each.
 
Thorp added one RBI as well.
 
Daniel Collins got the start and picked up the win after tossing five innings and allowing sven runs, just three of them earned on seven hits with three strikeouts.
 
Cody Pfeffer came on and finished the game, tossing two scoreless innings and scattering a pair of hits.
 
SWOSU opened up 5-0 lead in the first, taking advantage of a pair of Storm errors as four of the five runs were unearned.
 
SE took a bite out of the deficit in the bottom half of the inning with a Keeton two-run homer.
 
The Bulldogs got those two runs back in the top of the second on a two-run homer of their own, taking a 7-2 lead.
 
Southeastern found it answer beginning in the bottom of the third inning, first when Mitchell scored on a wild pitch before Poole came home on a Poole RBI groundout, closing the gap to 7-4.
 
An inning later, Showalter scored on a wild pitch, followed by a Mitchell sac fly and a two-run double off the bat of Poole to take an 8-7 lead.
 
The Storm offense exploded in the fifth, with Thorp homering, followed by RBI singles from Mitchell and Keeton.
 
Mitchell would then come home on a wild pitch before Mueller connected on a two-run homer to cap a six-run inning and push the SE lead to 14-7 after five innings.
 
In the seventh inning, Mitchell pushed the score to 16-7 with a two-run homer and two batters later Mueller would match him with a game-ending two-run blast to trigger the run rule at 18-7.
 
In the nightcap, Evans turned in a 3-for-3 effort at the plate, while Mitchell, Poole, Jake Miller, and Kirk each added a hit.
 
Evans and Kirk each homered while Mitchell added a double.
 
Evans, Mitchell, and Kirk each finished the game with an RBI.
 
Colton Clawson got the start and tossed three innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on two hits with two strikeouts.
 
Carson Abbott followed with two innings and allowed a hit and no runs.
 
Brayden Phelps was next in line with 1.1 innings and accounted for two runs on a hit.
 
Cody Pfeffer faced one batter and allowed a hit and was saddled with the loss in the effort.
 
Brock Zimmer finished the game with two-thirds of an inning, allowing a hit and striking out two.
 
SWOSU got on the board with a two-run homer in the top of the first inning, but the Storm had an answer, first on a Mitchell RBI double and then when Mitchell scored on an error to knot the game at 2-2.
 
In the bottom of the second inning SE took the lead on back-to-back home runs, pushing the lead to 4-2 after two innings,
 
The Bulldogs swiped one back thanks to a Storm error in the top of the third, closing the advantage to 4-3.
 
SWOSU flipped the score in the top of the seventh, tying the game on a bases loaded walk, taking the lead on a wild pitch and pushing that lead to 6-4 on an RBI single.