Southeast Softball

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One day after Southeast Missouri State obliterated Jacksonville State 11-2 in the opening round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Oxford, Ala., the Redhawks barely kept their 2021 season alive on Friday.

Four days makes a big difference.

Austine Pauley went 2-for-3 but the Southeast Missouri State softball team came up short in a 4-3 loss to Jacksonville State on Sunday. Trailing, 1-0, after two innings, the Redhawks tied things up in the top of the third when Katie Dreiling singled through the left side to score Jillian Anderson...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team is in a position to win the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title and claim the top seed in this year's OVC Tournament with a win over Jacksonville State this weekend. SEMO will secure the title with a win over the Gamecocks and one Eastern Kentucky loss. The Governors can finish first if they sweep Austin Peay and the Redhawks lose its series to Jacksonville State...

Ashley Ellis broke Southeast Missouri's all-time career home run record on Sunday, hitting three home runs in the Redhawks series sweep of Murray State. Ellis officially broke the record when the senior took Racers pitcher Hannah James twice in a 3-2 series clincher on Sunday. ...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team swept the Ohio Valley Conference weekly awards for the second time this season on Monday, as Ashley Ellis was named OVC Player of the Week, while Rachel Rook claimed the league's Pitcher of the Week honor. Ellis, who calls Arnold, Missouri home, homered three times and hit .500 in the Redhawks series sweep of Murray State over the weekend. ...

Freshman Abigail Rickermann broke a scoreless drought with a pinch-hit RBI-single in the bottom of the sixth inning to help send Southeast Missouri (20-12) to its 20th win of the season with a 2-0 victory over Saint Louis (11-22),Wednesday. Rachel Anderson was in scoring position after reaching on a one-out double to left center before Rickermann came to the plate. ...

There is no hotter softball team in the Ohio Valley Conference than Southeast Missouri State and it showed why in a resounding 7-0 beat-down of Eastern Illinois in Cape Girardeau on Friday. The Redhawks (16-10, 12-1) got offensive power from senior Ashley Ellis, as she pounded out a pair of home runs, while also riding the dominant right arm of junior pitcher Rachel Rook in the win.

Junior pitcher Rachel Rook threw a two-hit shutout with nine strikeouts Wednesday to lead Southeast Missouri State to a 5-0 victory over Southern Illinois. Rook, like so many times previously in 2021, dominated in the circle, throwing a no-hitter through the first four innings, until Saluki Elizabeth Warwick led off the fifth inning with a single to end the no-hit bid...

Two Southeast Missouri softball players earned honors Monday as senior infielder Ashley Ellis and junior pitcher Rachel Rook won Player of the week and Pitcher of the week, as OVC official announced Monday. A native of Arnold, Missouri, Ellis hit.625 with four runs scored, four home runs, and 10 RBIs to lead SEMO to four wins last week. ...

Southeast Missouri State center fielder Rachel Anderson had one of those games a player only dreams of on Friday, going 4 for 4, scoring three runs, hitting a triple and a home run, leading her Redhawks past Morehead State at home, 8-0. Anderson was not only outstanding at the plate but made a highlight-reel type, diving catch to rob a Morehead State hitter of extra bases...

Southeast Missouri State scored five runs in the fifth inning Wednesday to claim victory over Saint Louis University, 6-1. Freshman Kynzie Wrigley captured the lead for the Redhawks in the third inning by smacking her first career home run of her career, helping SEMO take a 1-0 lead into the later innings...

Southeast Missouri State softball pitcher Rachel Rook was voted the Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week unanimously on Monday, as she struck out a total of 24 batters in two starts, throwing 13 scoreless innings to lead the Redhawks to a second straight series sweep...

Southeast Missouri State center fielder Rachel Anderson led the hitting parade Sunday, going 3 for 4, driving in three runs, to lead the Redhawks past Belmont, 8-4. Anderson walked in her first at-bat in the first inning, then singled on a bunt in the top half of the third inning...

Southeast Missouri State outhit Southern Illinois on Tuesday, but dropped a 6-2 softball game at Charlotte West Stadium in Carbondale.

Southeast Missouri State sophomore infielder Alyson Tucker hit her first home run of the season Friday, as the Redhawks defeated Austin Peay 6-5 in Cape Girardeau.