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The Southeast Missouri State softball team went on the road and picked up its sixth doubleheader sweep of the season Wednesday at Saint Louis, grabbing a pair of wins, 7-1 and 1-0. Home runs from Addison Barnouski -- her seventh of the season -- and Parker Bandy sparked the Redhawks (29-18) in the opener while outstanding pitching carried them the rest of the way, including a two-hit shutout by Haley Thogmartin in the nightcap...

For at least one day, offense didn't travel well. The Southeast Missouri State baseball team mustered just two hits against Southern Illinois and fell 2-0 in a midweek road game Tuesday night in Carbondale, Illinois. Trailing 1-0 in the eighth inning, Southeast put two runners in scoring position with two outs, but Peyton Faulkner struck out to end the inning as one of SEMO's best opportunities slipped away...

Southeast Missouri State softball dropped both games of a conference doubleheader at Eastern Kentucky on Sunday. The Colonels prevailed 5-4 and 3-0 at Gertrude Hood Field in Richmond, Kentucky, thanks to some heroics from Emily Corbitt. Corbitt drove in the game-winning run with a walk-off sacrifice fly in Game 1 and hit a two-run homer in Game 2...

For three games there wasn't a whole lot separating the Southeast Missouri State baseball team and Murray State. But the Redhawks had two things the Racers didn't: winning momentum and Aaron Stretch. Stretch earned saves in both games of Saturday's doubleheader, working out of a tough situation in the opener and then putting in a sparkling 3 1/3 relief innings in the nightcap to help Southeast to its eighth and ninth wins in the last 12 games with a doubleheader sweep of MSU, 8-6 and 7-5, at Capaha Field.. ...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team began a six-game road stretch by sweeping a doubleheader at Morehead State on Saturday, 2-0 and 4-1. The wins pushed the Redhawks record to 27-16 on the season, the program’s most wins since 2011. They are 11-5 in the Ohio Valley Conference...

Maybe it was just a good approach at the plate. Maybe it was the beautiful weather. Maybe it was the new, eye-catching uniforms. Whatever it was -- senior second baseman Trevor Ezell gave credit to all three -- the Southeast Missouri State baseball team hit the ball hard Friday night, smacking three home runs and recovering after losing a three-run lead to drop visiting Murray State 7-4, claiming the opening game of the Ohio Valley Conference series at Capaha Field...

A pair of Southeast Missouri State tennis players were honored Thursday night at the 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Tennis Championship Banquet, as the sophomore duo of Oleksandra Doroshenko and Kseniya Zonova grabbed All-OVC recognition. Doroshenko was named to the league's first team while Zonova landed on the second team...

Southeast Missouri State track and field sophomore Jonno Engelking was tabbed as the adidas Ohio Valley Conference Male Field Athlete of the Week, the league announced Wednesday. Engelking won the javelin competition at the Joe Walker Invite in Oxford, Mississippi, this past weekend. The Brampton, United Kingdom, native set a Southeast and personal record with a throw of 232 feet, 5 inches. That mark is tops in the OVC and seventh in the NCAA Division I West Region...

A local face is joining the Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team, coach Mary Beth Gunn announced Tuesday. Notre Dame Regional High School student, and Cape Girardeau native, Grace Powderly will play for SEMO next season as a freshman. Powederly, a three-time Semoball Awards girls tennis finalist, advanced to the Class 1 singles state tournament as a junior and senior. ...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team had just given up five runs and fallen behind late against in-state foe Saint Louis University. The Redhawks responded with four runs next time up to take a lead they didn't relinquish. Thanks to those late runs, SEMO won a see-saw slugfest Tuesday, beating visiting SLU 10-8 in front of 1,468 fans at Capaha Field. It was Southeast's second home win over the Billikens this season...

It took some late heroics, but Southeast Missouri State softball split a home doubleheader with conference foe UT Martin on Tuesday. After SEMO lost 4-0 in Game 1, Parker Bandy produced a walk-off single in extra innings to give SEMO a 1-0 win in the nightcap and prevent a Skyhawks sweep. Bandy's eighth-inning single capped off a stellar game in which she went 3-for-4, accounting for nearly half of the Redhawks' seven hits...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- When Missouri started the 2017-18 schedule 1-3, all the losses at home, the Tigers seemed on their way to another disappointing season. Instead, Missouri's offense flipped a switch, becoming one of the most high-powered attacks in college football. Drew Lock broke the Southeastern Conference single-season record with 44 touchdown passes, and Missouri scored more than 40 points in each of its last six regular-season games...

Southeast Missouri State senior right-hander Carlos Vega was named the adidas Ohio Valley Conference Co-Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Monday. Vega picked up his sixth victory of the season Saturday, tossing nine innings of one-run ball to become the first SEMO pitcher to earn the award this season. He shared the honor with Jacksonville State's Garrett Farmer, who shut down SEMO in the first game of the series Friday...

Southeast Missouri State senior gymnasts Alexis Brawner and McKinzie Jones finished in the top six in individual event finals and earned first-team USA Gymnastics All-American honors Sunday. Brawner tied for sixth in the vault while Jones tied for third on the beam at the USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate National Championships at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas...

To hear it from the Southeast Missouri State softball team, this is the year that things are coming together for them. A mix of veterans who have figured some things out and the continued infusion of talented youngsters have the Redhawks taking a nice step forward this spring...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball leaned on one of its finest starting pitching performances of the season to avoid a series sweep Saturday. Carlos Vega tossed nine innings of one-run ball, and SEMO scored three runs in the 10th inning to edge host Jacksonville State 4-1 in Oxford, Alabama...

The Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team ended the regular season with a convincing conference victory over winless SIU Edwardsville on Saturday. SEMO cruised to a 6-1 win over the Cougars at the Edwardsville YMCA in Edwardsville, Illinois. The Redhawks end the regular season with a 5-13 record and 2-7 in the Ohio Valley Conference...

Ask her coach, and Friday afternoon was peak Sarah Messex. Southeast Missouri State softball skipper Mark Redburn loves his junior shortstop for her gritty competitiveness, so it was fitting that she stood on the field following a doubleheader against SIU Edwardsville with her right eye darkened by a shiner and her uniform covered from head to toe in dirt after delivering her team's game-winning hit...

It wasn't an intrasquad game, but the Southeast Missouri State football team wrapped up spring practice by showcasing its talents to the public. Due to a lack of healthy players at certain positions, like offensive line, the Redhawks opted not to split the squad into two teams for the customary spring game, instead scrimmaging in front of hundreds of fans Saturday at Houck Field...

Minutes into its doubleheader at Jacksonville State on Friday, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team had runners on second and third with no outs. The Redhawks came up empty, and that set the tone for the rest of the day. Southeast finished the way it started -- coming up short -- as it fell 7-0 in the opener and then 7-6 in 11 innings in the nightcap at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team has added a pair of freshmen to the fold, as coach Julie Yankus announced Friday the signings of Kendall Washington and Caroline Draver. The duo joins Elissa Moylan, Colby Green and Claire Ochs, who signed during the early signing period in November, in a five-player signing class...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team was unable to overcome the Ohio Valley Conference's top team on Wednesday, dropping both games of a doubleheader, 4-1 and 4-1, to Eastern Illinois in Charleston, Illinois. SEMO struggled at the plate against EIU pitching and gave up a crucial home run in both games...

Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Rick Ray knew what holes he needed to address in recruiting, and on the first day of the NCAA basketball signing period Wednesday, he attempted to do that. The Redhawks announced the addition of 6-foot-8, 200-pound forward Sage Tolbert to their 2018-19 roster...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team carried over a weekend offensive burst into a non-conference matchup with McKendree University on Tuesday at Capaha Field. The Redhawks unloaded seven extra-base hits in a 15-0 thumping of the Bearcats. The victory upped Southeast's overall record to 15-18, while dumping McKendree, a Division II program, to 6-21...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team continued its stellar play in the Ohio Valley Conference with a doubleheader sweep of conference foe Murray State on Sunday. SEMO (22-13 overall, 6-2 OVC) won 8-7 and 11-8 in Murray, Kentucky. In Game 1, the Redhawks were down 7-6 entering the seventh inning but scored two runs in the final frame to secure the comeback victory...

For the first two games of the series, the bats for the Southeast Missouri State baseball team had been held in check. That changed Sunday. The Redhawks totaled 16 hits and cruised to a 13-1 win over visiting Eastern Illinois at Capaha Field to claim the series victory. After scoring six runs combined in the first two games, SEMO scored eight runs in the first six innings Sunday...

Southeast Missouri State senior gymnast Alexis Brawner finished 30th out of 42 competitors in the floor exercise Saturday at the NCAA Regional in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Brawner's 9.750 mark in the event matched her best Regional performance in her third appearance at that level of the postseason...

For a second straight day, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team didn't always find offense with ease, but at least one player came through. Tristen Gagan went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, a solo home run and a two-run double to lead Southeast to a 3-1 victory over Eastern Illinois on Saturday at Capaha Field...

The Southeast Missouri State football team was down four offensive lineman and a couple quarterbacks, but Saturday's intrasquad scrimmage provided an opportunity for the Redhawks to improve ahead of next week's spring game. SEMO mixed in positional drills throughout the morning and ended by simulating late-game situations. ...

A day after dropping a heartbreaker at Southern Illinois, the Southeast Missouri State softball team returned to conference play with a split of a road doubleheader at Austin Peay. The Redhawks dropped the opener to the Governors, 5-2, before bouncing back to claim the nightcap and their 20th win of the season, 11-2, in a battle between two teams currently in the middle of the Ohio Valley Conference pack...

On a day when Eastern Illinois sent two baseballs over the outfield wall, Southeast Missouri State could barely get any out of the infield dirt. Southeast starting pitcher Christian Vick gave up two home runs and the Redhawks only managed one hit out of the infield as they fell 5-3 to Eastern Illinois on Friday afternoon at Capaha Field...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team couldn't quite close things out. Tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the ninth, host Southern Illinois got a one-out RBI single from Sydney Brown for a 2-1 walkoff win Thursday evening in Carbondale, Illinois. Haley Thogmartin (5-5) took the loss for SEMO (19-12), pitching 2 1/3 innings in relief and allowing one unearned run on three hits with five walks and a pair of strikeouts...

Just 24 hours after the game was scheduled, Southeast Missouri State baseball was walking off the field with a mid-week victory. The Redhawks defeated Saint Louis 4-2 thanks to some early runs and 5 2/3 scoreless innings of relief pitched by five different hurlers Wednesday night at Capaha Field...

For a second straight match, the Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team captured three singles victories but fell in the team competition, 4-3, at UT Martin on Wednesday. Southeast (4-11 overall, 1-5 Ohio Valley Conference) got individual wins from Oleksandra Doroshenko, Kseniya Zonova and Anais Emelie...

Nearly five months after the football season ended, Kendall Donnerson's day began at 6:30 a.m. That gave the senior time to eat breakfast and get his body ready before beginning what was perhaps his final football act as a member of the Southeast Missouri State football team: pro day...

After losing two heartbreakers a day before, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team showed no signs of a hangover Saturday. The Redhawks produced season highs in hits and runs en route to a dominating 20-4 win over host Austin Peay in Clarksville, Tennessee, to avoid a series sweep...

With nine other teams in the field, the Drury Hotels Joey Haines Invitational offered the Southeast Missouri State track and field team an early-season test on its home track. Redhawks coach Eric Crumpecker was pleased with the results. Thanks to eight first-place finishes, SEMO won both the men’s and women’s competition Saturday as the two-day meet concluded at Abe Stuber Track and Field Complex...

The Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team took home a trio of singles victories, but ultimately fell to Ohio Valley Conference foe Murray State, 4-3, Saturday at McCracken County High School in Paducah, Kentucky. Oleksandra Doroshenko, Kseniya Zonova and Kelly Sicha each picked up singles wins for SEMO (4-10 overall, 1-4 OVC)...

The Southeast Missouri State women's tennis team won the doubles point but ultimately lost to visiting Austin Peay 4-3 on Friday at the Redhawks Tennis Complex. SEMO fell to 4-9 overall and 1-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference. The match started well with Southeast claiming the doubles point for the first time since January 27. The Redhawks' No. 1 doubles team, Kseniya Zonova and Oleksandra Doroshenko, improved to 3-0 in 2018 with a 7-5 win...

Before the season began, Alexis Brawner knew she wouldn't be returning to the NCAA Regionals as an all-around competitor. The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics senior had to medically retire from the beam, and that meant she would be competing in three events, not four, in her final collegiate campaign. ...

It was a tough end to a tough day for the Southeast Missouri State baseball team. A game-ending balk -- upheld under protest -- capped a doubleheader in which the Redhawks dropped a pair of one-run games, 6-5 and 7-6, at Austin Peay on Friday in Clarksville, Tennessee, giving Southeast its first Ohio Valley Conference series loss of the season...

The proof was there that Abby Tillotson could hit. Just a quick glance at the resume of the Southeast Missouri State softball senior showed that she'd done it before. Tillotson raked the ball at Fort Zumwalt North High School, hitting .526 as a senior and over .400 her sophomore and junior seasons. Then she went to Three Rivers Community College and as a freshman garnered All-America honors thanks to 53 RBIs and a school-record 12 home runs...

Southeast Missouri State track and field athlete Chris Martin was named the adidas Ohio Valley Conference Co-Male Field Athlete of the Week, the conference announced Wednesday. Martin, a former Cape Girardeau Central standout, was first in the triple jump at the Al Schmidt Bulldog Relays in Starkville, Mississippi, this past weekend. Martin's final jump was his longest, as he reached 51 feet, 4.25 inches, or 16.25 meters. That mark is tops in the OVC and third in the west regional rankings...

Three years ago, as Chase Urhahn was spending the spring of his senior year at Notre Dame Regional High School batting .421, setting a school record of 39 stolen bases, matching a school record of 42 runs scored, leading the Bulldogs to a Class 4 state title and being named the 2015 Semoball Awards Baseball Player of the Year, he had a thought in the back of his mind...