Southeast Baseball

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team pounced on Saint Louis early and then held on for an 8-4 win on Monday at Capaha Field. Southeast scored seven runs in the first two innings and then didn't record a hit after the fourth inning. That early lead was enough, though, as Aaron Stretch tossed a scoreless final three innings to record the save...

Austin Blazevic belted a three-run home run to break a tie game as Southeast Missouri State baseball avoided a sweep by Tennessee Tech (17-20, 5-13 Ohio Valley Conference), winning the final game of the series 9-4 at Capaha Field on Saturday. Blazevic and Andrew Keck each went 2-for-4, with three RBIs and two RBIs, respectively, while Devon Wilson went 3-for-3. Logan Winder earned the win in relief for Southeast (17-23, 7-15 OVC) going 4 2/3 innings with five strikeouts and allowed four hits...

Southeast Missouri State baseball had a chance to climb up the conference standings when it faced last-place Tennessee Tech in a doubleheader. However, the Redhawks fell behind early and could not overcome the long ball as they dropped both games Friday at Capaha Field, 9-3 and 13-8...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team got an extra day off thanks to Mother Nature. Due to rain, the opener of the three-game series with Tennessee Tech will be played at 11 a.m. today at Capaha Park. The second game of the series will be played at 6 p.m. today as originally scheduled, and the final game is slated for 2 p.m. Saturday...

The old adage is life comes full circle, and in that vein, now is as good a time as any to announce I'm once again the interim sports editor of the Southeast Missourian. I officially started Thursday, and I'm excited to once again have a prominent role in planning what the sports department covers. ...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team suffered its fifth loss in the last six games as Arkansas State swept the season series with an 8-4 victory Tuesday in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Southeast (16-21) scored first, scratching a run across in the second thanks to a Hunter Southerland double, a Danny Wright single and a Andrew Keck RBI ground out...

Southeast Missouri State softball continued its dominance by shutting out Ohio Valley Conference foe Tennessee-Martin 1-0 and 6-0 in a doubleheader Wednesday in Martin, Tennessee. In the first game, Ashley Ellis singled in the first inning to score Mykaela Arellanes for the game-clinching run. Haley Thogmartin recorded her 13th win of the season, pitching a complete-game shutout, allowing just three hits and striking out three...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team was again victimized by a big inning as the Redhawks were throttled by Saint Louis University 15-6 at Billiken Sports Complex in St. Louis. For four innings, the Redhawks (15-18) battled the Billikens (13-18) to a 5-5 tie. In bottom of the fifth, the Billikens scored seven runs to open the game up. Kevin Jordan nearly hit for the cycle going 4-for-5 with four hits, including a home run and four RBIs for the Billikens, who had 15 hits overall...

Southeast Missouri State outlasted Jacksonville State 9-8 at Capaha Field on Saturday to even the series at one game apiece. The Redhawks were staked to a lead for much of the game and withstood a furious rally by the Gamecocks. Head coach Andy Sawyers commended his team for not flinching in adversity...

The Redhawks dropped their third straight game Friday, losing to Jacksonville State in 10 innings. Jacksonville State (15-14, 7-3 OVC) won 4-3 in at Capaha Park. In the top of the 10th inning, Jacksonville State got a leadoff double from Cole Frederick and benefited as Southeast's Austin Sachse walked Alex Webb next and intentionally walked Nic Gaddis to load the bases. ...

Southeast Missouri State baseball had the benefit of a strong start and an early lead Tuesday night at Capaha Field. Unfortunately for the Redhawks, they could not hold on as they dropped an 8-2 tilt to Missouri State University. The Bears were led by Dakota Kotowski's two home runs and starting pitcher Forrest Barnes, who threw a complete game...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team continued its strong start to Ohio Valley Conference play with a doubleheader sweep of visiting Eastern Kentucky on Monday afternoon at the Southeast Softball Complex. Southeast improved to 27-8 overall and 5-1 in the OVC with 4-1 and 9-7 victories over the Colonels. It was the Redhawks' first games in over a week and came against a team that entered Monday tied for second in the conference...

Southeast Missouri State The Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader between Southeast Missouri State softball and Morehead State scheduled for Friday was cancelled due to weather. A makeup date has not been set. Rain was in the forecast and the initial start of 1 p.m. ...

Southeast Missouri State baseball played for only the second time under new home light this season. Unfortunately, the second game yielded the same result, as the Redhawks dropped an 11-2 decision to Arkansas State University at Capaha Park on Tuesday...

The first game under the lights did not go as planned for the Southeast Missouri State baseball team. After overcoming a deficit to beat Memphis earlier in the week, they could not replicate the task dropping a 4-2 decision against Austin Peay University in front of more than 1,200 spectators at Capaha Field...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team has been in nearly every game this season, but at times has struggled to find a way to finish. The Redhawks found a way Tuesday as they rallied to defeat Memphis 7-6 at Capaha Field. Coach Andy Sawyers was pleased with how his team rebounded from a first inning in which Southeast gave up four runs...

Junior left-hander Dylan Dodd struck out 11 batters to help the Southeast Missouri State baseball team break a four-game losing streak with an 8-6 victory over SIU Edwardsville in the opener of the three-game Ohio Valley Conference series Friday in Edwardsville, Illinois...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team notched just two hits and suffered its fourth consecutive defeat Wednesday, falling 4-1 to rival Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Illinois. SIU (10-5) opened the scoring in the third when Grey Epps doubled down the left-field line to drive in J.T. Weber. The Salukis tacked on two more runs next time up thanks to a couple errors...

When Southeast Missouri State crafted the 2019 baseball schedule, front-loading the slate with a litany of home games, the administration didn't envision a stadium without working lights. But that's the situation at hand, with Southeast pushing up start times for numerous early-season contests in order to get nine innings completed before darkness falls...

In a battle of red birds, it was the Redbirds who grounded the Redhawks on Tuesday, as Illinois State defeated Southeast Missouri State 18-6 at Capaha Field. The Redbirds (9-5) got on the board in the top of the first inning as Jordan Libman had an RBI double scoring John Rave, putting them up 1-0...

Southeast Missouri State pitchers Dylan Dodd and Logan Winder combined for 13 strikeouts as the Redhawks opened Ohio Valley Conference play with a 4-1 victory over the University of Tennessee Martin on Friday at Capaha Field. The duo did not walk a batter in helping the Redhawks improve to 10-3 on the season...

Southeast Missouri State baseball junior Austin Blazevic was named Ohio Valley Conference Co-Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. Blazevic was 9-of-18 in four games last week and had a .722 slugging percentage thanks to three extra-base hits -- two doubles and a triple. The junior college transfer also scored seven runs and produced five RBIs while accumulating a .526 on-base percentage...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball picked up its second sweep of the season, winning both games of a doubleheader comfortably against Purdue-Fort Wayne on Saturday. Due to incoming inclement weather, Sunday's series finale was moved up to Saturday...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team struck for three runs in the first inning in sending junior left-hander Dylan Dodd to his first victory as a Redhawk, defeating Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 12-4 on Friday in the opener of a three-game series at Capaha Field...

Top-ranked Vanderbilt scored five runs over the first two innings on its way to an 11-3 victory over the Southeast Missouri State baseball team Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee. The Redhawks, playing their first game away from Cape Girardeau this season, scored all three of their runs in the fourth inning in falling to 5-3 on the season...

Southeast Missouri State baseball bounced back from its first loss of the season with an emphatic 14-2 win over visiting Western Illinois on Saturday at Capaha Field. A day after stranding 11 base runners in a 9-2 loss, Southeast (5-1) notched 14 hits and took advantage of five walks and five hit batters to score 14 runs or more for the first time since April 10, 2018...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team saw its perfect start to the season come to an end Friday, falling 9-2 to Western Illinois at Capaha Field. The Redhawks never led as the Leathernecks, who entered winless, scored two runs in the third to take the lead for good and steadily built on that lead as the game progressed...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball continued its perfect start to the season, crushing NAIA Harris-Stowe 13-0 on Tuesday afternoon at Capaha Field. Hunter Southerland smacked a grand slam and a double, one of three Redhawks who recorded two hits against the Hornets. It was Southeast's fourth consecutive victory to start the season, and fourth in three days, after recording all three victories against Western Michigan on Sunday. It's the program's first 4-0 start since 2013...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team opened its season Saturday, but still has yet to complete a game. The Redhawks' opener was originally scheduled for Friday, but inclement weather pushed the game back a day. Then, the Redhawks, along with other athletic teams at the university and the Western Michigan team it faced, had to spend Saturday morning and early afternoon clearing snow from Capaha Field...

Southeast Missouri State baseball announced the hiring of two assistant coaches Monday. Matthew Passauer will serve as Southeast's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator, and Matthew Kinney is the new director of player development. Last year, Passauer served as a volunteer assistant at Miami (Ohio) as the team won 35 games and finished second in the Mid-American Conference...

When President Theodore Roosevelt made the phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," famous, he was referring to foreign policy. But Trent Pobst is happy to take that philosophy onto the baseball field. The former Scott City standout will be the first to say he doesn't always talk much, but he's made a baseball career of letting his bat do the talking, and it has culminated, to this point, in a monster summer with the Capahas and, in recent weeks, signing with his hometown Division I program at Southeast Missouri State.. ...

A two-minute stretch cost the Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team in its preseason opener Monday. SEMO gave up two goals in two minutes during the first period and fell 2-0 to Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. The Redhawks' sole exhibition game was split into three 30-minute periods, instead of the traditional 45-minute halves...

A month ago, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team thought it might lose its best hitter to the MLB Draft. That didn't happen, but the Redhawks have lost him anyway. According to a report from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published last week, Trevor Ezell has joined the University of Arkansas as a graduate transfer...

As Southeast Missouri State baseball coach Andy Sawyers sits in his office two weeks after the end of the season -- an unceremonious spilling out of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament after going just 1-2 as the No. 2 seed -- he is full of anticipation...

Southeast Missouri State junior Justin Dirden may not have heard his name called in last week's draft, but on Wednesday his name did show up on multiple postseason awards squads. Dirden was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings NCAA Division I South All-Region Second Team as well as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division I All-American Second Team...

For the first time in two years, a Southeast Missouri State baseball player was selected in the Major League Baseball Draft. Wednesday, the Chicago Cubs selected Carlos Vega in the 21st round, as the senior right-hander became the first Redhawk to be drafted by the Cubs...

Once the postseason arrives, teams can't afford to have a bad day in consecutive outings. But the Southeast Missouri State baseball team did. After giving up 25 hits and 18 runs while falling into the elimination bracket of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament Thursday, second-seeded Southeast couldn't slow its opponent again as it saw its season end with an 11-0 loss to No. 4 Jacksonville State on Friday afternoon at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

Thursday was not a day Southeast Missouri State baseball pitchers will remember fondly. Second-seeded SEMO gave up seven runs in the first three innings, including five in the second, and surrendered 25 hits in an 18-9 loss to No. 3 Morehead State in an Ohio Valley Conference winner's bracket game at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team took a two-run lead in the first inning and led the rest of the way, riding a strong effort from starting pitcher Carlos Vega to drop Murray State 5-2 in the opening round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament on Wednesday at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

SOUTHEAST BASEBALL The Ohio Valley Conference announced its postseason awards Tuesday, with the Southeast Missouri State trio of second baseman Trevor Ezell, outfielder Justin Dirden and pitcher Carlos Vega named to the All-OVC First Team. Dirden leads the team in numerous offensive categories, including slugging percentage (.680), RBIs (66) and home runs (15)...

Southeast Missouri State baseball took care of businnes, locked up the No. 2 seed in this week's Ohio Valley Conference Tournament and ended the regular season with positive momentum as it swept a doubleheader at Eastern Kentucky, 7-6 and 10-9, on Saturday in Richmond, Kentucky...

On Friday night, the Southeast Missouri State baseball team could have taken a step toward locking up its seeding for the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. Mother Nature had other plans. Game 2 of a three-game series at Eastern Kentucky was delayed before ultimately being postponed, and will be played Saturday as part of a doubleheader beginning at 10 a.m. in Richmond, Kentucky...

Southeast Missouri State baseball tallied just two hits through nine innings. Turns out, the Redhawks were saving them for extras. SEMO scored five runs in the top of the 10th inning to claim a 7-2 win over Ohio Valley Conference foe Eastern Kentucky in the series opener Thursday in Richmond, Kentucky...

Too many two-run innings doomed Southeast Missouri State's baseball team in a mid-week game against Georgia Tech. The Yellowjackets of the Atlantic Coast Conference threw four two-run innings at the Redhawks for an 8-5 home victory. Georgia Tech improved to 29-24...

The walk-off magic just ran out. After back-to-back wins that came in its final at-bat, Southeast Missouri State baseball couldn't conjure a similar spell in the series finale against Ohio Valley Conference foe Belmont. The Redhawks rallied from a 6-0 deficit to force extra innings in the bottom of the ninth, but hopes of more magic collapsed as the Bruins controlled the 10th inning to down SEMO 10-6 on Sunday afternoon at Capaha Field...

For a second straight night, the game came down to the final out. And for a second straight night, Southeast Missouri State baseball walked off with a win. Alex Nielsen reached on an error in the bottom of the ninth to push in Devon Wilson for the winning run, as the Redhawks snagged a 9-8 win over Belmont in Game 2 of the three-game Ohio Valley Conference series on Saturday night at Capaha Field...

Southeast Missouri State baseball trailed by five runs entering the sixth inning, but the Redhawks didn't give up. Instead, SEMO put together a comeback capped off by a walk-off RBI single from Alex Canty in extra innings. Thanks to Canty's heroics, SEMO edged Belmont 9-8 in 10 innings Friday in the series opener...

Life works in mysterious ways sometimes. A year ago, Brian Lees was readying himself for a summer of professional baseball. Just two years before that, he was doing exactly what he wanted -- paying for his college education by playing the sport he loved in the shadow of his hometown of Brunswick, Ohio, with family and friends looking on...

Southeast Missouri State baseball coughed up a late lead in another one-run loss Sunday. Lipscomb scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh, capped by Jake Perry's sacrifice fly to plate the go-ahead run, and held on for an 8-7 win over SEMO in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the Redhawks' 12th one-run loss this season and second in as many games...

Leading through four and a half innings, Southeast Missouri State baseball could not hold on, as Lipscomb scored the game-winning run on a fielder's choice in the ninth inning to hand the Redhawks a 7-6 road loss Friday in Nashville, Tennessee, to open up a three-game non-conference series...