Five Homers Help SE Rally to Win at UCO

EDMOND, Okla. – Isaac Villa logged four hits and Ryan Kirk homered twice as Southeastern pounded out 15 hits on its way to a 14-12 road win over Central Oklahoma on Tuesday evening in Edmond, Okla.
 
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 8-5 overall on the year heading into a three-game road conference series versus Southern Nazarene slated for Feb. 27-28 in Bethany, Okla.
 
Villa finished the game 4-for-6 with a home run, three RBI, and two runs scored.
 
Kirk followed with a three-hit outing, two of them homers and the third a double, finishing the game with a team-best four RBI.
 
Carter Olson also turned in three hits, homering once with an RBI.
 
Austin Parker added two hits, a home run and a double, with an RBI.
 
JJ Bush, Logan Rose, and Alex Showalter each picked up a hit.
 
Rose drove in three runs on his double while Showalter added an RBI.
 
Brayden Tambone got the start and tossed 2.2 innings and was tagged for seven runs on seven hits with a pair of strikeouts in a no decision.
 
Colton Clawson followed with 1.2 innings pitched, allowing four runs on five hits.
 
Brayden Phelps followed with two-thirds of an inning, striking out two and allowing a run.
 
Austin Hillebrandt checked in and tossed an inning, allowing one hit on his way to picking up the victory, with Brock Zimmer coming on and tossing a scoreless inning of his own.
 
He was followed by Juan Berrios who allowed a hit with no runs in an inning before Carson Abbot stepped in to earn the save with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
 
Villa led off the contest with a home run and later in the inning Bush scored on a wild pitch to mount a 2-0 lead.
 
UCO cut that in half in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI groundout.
 
SE responded in the top of the third as Kirk led off with a solo homer to stretch the lead to 3-1, but UCO found its answer in the form of six runs in the bottom half of the inning to take the lead at 7-3.
 
The Storm got back in motion in the top of the fourth with Villa doubling home a pair of runs before Kirk added an RBI double, closing the gap to 7-6.
 
UCO picked up a run in the bottom of the fourth to extend its lead to 8-6, but Showalter picked up an RBI on a fielder's choice in the top of the fifth to close to 8-7.
 
The Bronchos followed with a three-run homer int the bottom of the fifth and the Storm trailed 11-7.
 
Rose got the Storm back within one run with a three-RBI double in the top of the sixth to make the score 11-10, but UCO again picked up a run to edge out to a 12-10 lead.
 
The Storm got the offense moving again in the seventh inning when Kirk connected on a two-run homer, his second of the day, tying the game at 12-12 before Olson and Parker connected on back-to-back solo homers to take a 14-12 lead which would hold up as the final score.