Southeast Softball

SEMO softball’s senior infielder Abigail Rickermann currently leads the Redhawks from the plate with a .379 batting average through April 21. Rickermann has totaled 33 hits to go with seven RBIs while drawing nine walks and is a perfect 8-8 on base stealing attempts...

SEMO softball’s fifth-year senior pitcher Paytience Holman currently leads the Redhawks with a 2.96 ERA as of April 5. Holman has seen plenty of success during her time in Cape Girardeau including the 2021 and 2023 Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championships...

After a brutal start to Ohio Valley Conference play and a dismal record to begin the season, it felt like just about everybody had written off SEMO softball at Missouri on Wednesday. Everybody, except for Paytience Holman. The senior pitcher threw a scoreless seven innings in Columbia, Missouri, to ensure Southeast (13-20, 7-5 OVC) knocked off the No. 11 Missouri Tigers (29-8, 4-5 SEC) in a thrilling 1-0 victory on the road...

Following a successful weekend at home last weekend against Tennessee State, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks hit the road to do battle with the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles. Ultimately, it was the Screaming Eagles taking the three-game set after the two clubs split the doubleheader on Friday...

Entering Sunday, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks had split the first two games of the series against the Tennessee State Tigers. The Redhawks claimed the series win by way of a 4-3 win over Tennessee State on Sunday. “After yesterday we talked about bouncing back today,” Redhawks coach Mark Redburn said. “We came out today and put some runs up early.”...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks defeated the Tennessee State Tigers 4-3 on Sunday.

The SEMO softball team split a doubleheader with Bradley University on Tuesday at the Southeast Softball Complex. The Redhawks won the first game by a score of 6-2 and lost the second 5-1. Sydney Dennis led the Redhawks in the first game going 2-3 with what proved to be the winning RBI double to left field. In game two, Brooklyn Saysoff brought in the lone run for SEMO on an RBI single to left center...

The SEMO softball went 1-2 over the weekend in the first Ohio Valley Conference series of the season with Eastern Illinois. The Redhawks split a doubleheader with the Panthers on Saturday, losing 7-4 in a 12-inning marathon of a game and winning 9-4 in the following game. On Sunday, SEMO dropped a defensive battle 2-1...

The old saying, don’t judge a book by its cover is entirely true when looking at Southeast Missouri State’s start to the 2024 softball season. While the Redhawks have started 4-14, they have faced teams like Ohio State, Maryland, Syracuse, Auburn and Arkansas...

Just a week removed from the start of the 2024 NCAA Division I softball season, Southeast Missouri State softball got some big preseason love earlier this week. The Redhawks were selected via a poll of Ohio Valley Conference officials to finish as the top team in the conference’s regular season for the fourth time in five years...

After spending a year in Cape Girardeau, the one thing that has pleasantly surprised me about this place is how many athletes currently competing at Southeast Missouri State who have aspirations for a career in journalism. Chandler Davis plays on the SEMO women’s basketball team and recently covered the football team as a reporter for the student newspaper, the Southeast Arrow. ...

Jackson native among 2023 SEMO Hall of Fame class Southeast Missouri State announced its 2023 Hall of Fame Class on Wednesday, Dec. 13. Among the six-member class is Jackson native Blake Smith, who currently runs the Cape Girardeau based athletic training center, Prep Athletics...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to camp and fish with an “elite tent camper,” who also serves as the head football coach at Southeast Missouri State (Tom Matukewicz)?

For 40 years, Cindy Gannon has played a massive role within the sports landscape of Cape Girardeau. However, after doing some soul searching, the longtime coach and administrator, initially with Southeast Missouri State, and most recently the Cape Catfish, is stepping aside to “get to know me again.”

At any given Cape Catfish game, you can find the architect of success for the franchise standing atop the hill glancing over a baseball diamond that he has carried in his heart since he was a boy.

There rarely is a shortage of negativity in the daily news cycles, and intercollegiate athletics is never immune to such.

For the second time in three years, Southeast Missouri State has won the OVC Commissioner's Cup. The Redhawks won eight Ohio Valley Conference championships during the 2022-23 school year. The football team took a share of the championship after defeating rival Murray State 52-22. The Redhawks won the coin flip that determined whether SEMO or UT Martin would receive the automatic berth to the NCAA FCS Playoffs...

Southeast Missouri State (26-27, 14-8 OVC) entered its final series of the season needing to sweep Eastern Illinois (31-18, 11-11 OVC) in order to at least win a share of the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championship. The Redhawks missed their chance on Thursday when the Panthers knocked in 15 hits to win 10-2 at Capaha Field. The Redhawks have now lost eight games in a row...

The Ohio Valley Conference regular-season champion Redhawks are headed to Oxford, Alabama to participate in the OVC Tournament, with a spot in the NCAA Softball Tournament up for grabs. The Redhawks will repeat as the #1 seed in the tournament after doing it last season but ultimately losing to the #2-seeded Belmont Bruins...

Southeast Missouri State baseball (26-23) traveled to Manhattan, Kan. to take on the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big XII Conference. While the Redhawks showed some grit in the first two games of the series, losing 2-1 on Friday night and 12-5 on Saturday, the series ended in a sweep as the Wildcats took a seven-inning, 10-0 victory on Sunday afternoon...

The SEMO baseball and softball seasons are coming down to the end with baseball having three series left and softball having just three games left. Both teams currently sit atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings and hope to hang on to that spot as the OVC Tournaments approach...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team will look to maintain their lead in the Ohio Valley Conference standings with a series against UT Martin, starting on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Southeast Softball Complex It is the final home series of the season for SEMO, which will start with the program's alumni being recognized before first pitch. The series concludes with a doubleheader on Sunday starting at noon...

Southeast Missouri State (21-17) used a dominant three-game sweep against Tennessee Tech (10-24) to improve to 10-2 in Ohio Valley Conference play. The Redhawks won 10-1 on Friday and 5-4 on Saturday to secure the series before taking an 8-6 win at Capaha Field on Sunday afternoon to sweep the visiting Golden Eagles...

The Redhawks took the rubber match of a three-game series against Ohio Valley Conference newcomer Southern Indiana by a 14-2 margin on Saturday afternoon. After opening the series with a 13-4 win on Thursday and then dropping the second game, 9-6, on Friday, the Redhawks kept their record north of .500 with a rout win against the Screaming Eagles (9-22)...

The Redhawks made it seven consecutive Ohio Valley Conference victories on Sunday after taking a 10-0 victory in five innings against Tennessee Tech. After 11-0 and 9-1 wins on Saturday, Southeast Missouri State put an exclamation point on the weekend series with a five-run fifth inning to claim a mercy-rule win...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawk teams had a busy Sunday, with diamond sports combining for three wins while the track and field team had a few standouts in its final day at Mississippi State's Bulldog Relays. Redhawk track and field roundup The Southeast Missouri State track and field team competed in the Bulldog Relays this past weekend, with three athletes taking gold medals on Saturday at Mississippi State...

The Southeast Missouri State (2-3) softball team rebounded from a season-opening sweep at Louisiana Tech with a doubleheader sweep on the road, defeating Saint Louis (2-5) first by a 10-9 margin in 10 innings followed by a 7-4 win in the back half. Center fielder Paige Halliwill led the Redhawks with four hits across 17 innings in the two wins, including a home run in the second game, as the Redhawks generated a run-per-inning 17 runs...

After making a verbal commitment to play softball at Southeast Missouri State last year, Notre Dame senior Hailey Burnett made it official on Monday afternoon. Surrounded by friends, family and her coaches, Burnett put pen to paper and signed her National Letter of Intent to become a Redhawk...

The Southeast Missouri State softball program only graduates two seniors off its 2022 roster, which nearly advanced to the championship game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament recently. However, those two seniors (pitcher Rachel Rook and outfielder Kaylee Anderson) are two of the top players to ever compete in the red-and-black.

The immediate picture for the Southeast Missouri State was not to the liking of Redhawk followers, as No. 4-seed SEMO fell 3-2 to No. 2-seed Belmont in the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala. However, any rational fan can zoom out and see the big picture for the program is nothing but bright, and the final inning of that loss exhibited that.

If Southeast Missouri State is going to win the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Softball Tournament, it is following the most arduous path possible to that desired destination.

Southeast Missouri State softball coach Mark Redburn would have been hard-pressed to have asked for a better start to the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament on Wednesday at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala.

Southeast Missouri State beat SIU Edwardsville 9-1 on Wednesday in the opening game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala.

When Southeast Missouri State softball takes the field on Wednesday at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala. To open the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, it will do so as a running, hitting, and fielding contradiction. The No. 4-seed Redhawks (27-22) will take on the winner of No. 5-seed Austin Peay (30-22) and No. 8-seed SIU Edwardsville (18-33), who will play at 12:30 p.m., and the Redhawks will do so having put together yet another strong season, despite being one of the youngest, if not THE youngest, squad in the field.

Southeast Missouri State stayed in the thick of the Ohio Valley Conference softball race with a sweep of UT Martin on Wednesday in Cape Girardeau. The Redhawks (24-19, 13-7) battled to win a pair of one-run games in a 4-3, 5-4 over the Governors (27-16, 12-7).

There is a heavy weight carried on your shoulders when your last name is Brune and you compete athletically at Southeast Missouri State.

The Southeast Missouri State baseball squad are now two games out of first place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings after dropping two of three games over the weekend at Tennessee Tech. On Saturday, Redhawk junior Andrew Keck went 2-for-4 with a home run, double, one run scored and two RBI, but SEMO (24-10, 8-4 OVC) fell 7-4...

Southeast Missouri State senior Logan Blomquist won the hammer, shot put, and discus over the weekend at the Lake Stride Joey Haines Invitational in Cape Girardeau. He took first in the hammer throw for the fourth-straight outdoor meet Friday with a Joey Haines Invitational meet record and Abe Stuber Track & Field Complex record mark of 231 feet, 9 inches...

Andrew Keck went 3-for-4 with a home run, two runs, and two RBI, while Ben Palmer homered and added three RBI to lead Southeast Missouri State (17-5, 3-0) to a 5-2 Ohio Valley Conference baseball win over SIU Edwardsville (10-11, 0-3) Sunday at Capaha Field.

Southeast Missouri State senior pitcher Rachel Rook broke the Redhawks' all-time career strikeout record when she struck out 13 and allowed just two hits to lead Southeast Missouri State to a 9-1 victory over Tennessee State Saturday in the Ohio Valley Conference softball opener for both teams.

Southeast Missouri State senior gymnast Anna Kaziska was awarded the Midwest Independent Conference Performance of the Week on Wednesday.

Southeast Missouri State junior guard Eric Reed Jr. was recently named as a Second Team selection for District 18 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Reed, Jr. was a First-Team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection this season after leading SEMO in scoring (16.1 ppg), free throw percentage (101-of-124, .815), and 3-point field goals made (71) while dishing out 52 assists and collecting 30 steals.

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team unloaded eight home runs in an 11-8, 12-5, doubleheader sweep of Bradley (3-6) Saturday at Capaha Field. The Redhawks (9-1) slugged three homers in game one and a season-high five in the second contest to blow by the Braves...

Life happens fast in the ever-changing world of intercollegiate athletics, and no one is learning that more so than the fans of Southeast Missouri State athletics.

Southeast Missouri State sophomore pitcher opened his 2022 season on a positive note, as he was named on Monday as the first Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week award winner.

Southeast Missouri State pitcher Rachel Rook tossed a one-hitter and matched a career-high 15 strikeouts to lead the Redhawks to a 5-2 win over Nicholls State on Sunday at the Lion Classic at Southeastern Louisiana. The Redhawks (3-2) closed the season-opening tournament with three wins in five outings...

Southeast Missouri State fifth-year senior pitcher Rachel Rook struck out 12 hitters in a complete game, one-hit shutout, as the Redhawks smoked Alabama A&M 13-0 in its 2022 softball season opener in the Lion Classic at Southeastern Louisiana on Friday.

Notre Dame junior Hailey Burnett recently made a verbal commitment to play softball at Southeast Missouri State following her senior year in 2023. Burnett, who has already put up strong numbers in her freshman and sophomore seasons, still has her senior season in the fall to improve on aspects of her game that aren't where she wants them to be...

There is never a shortage of people to be impressed with – on or off of the athletic fields – at Southeast Missouri State.

As it turns out, about a lot of things in life, your parents were correct when they advised us all as youth that we are known by the company that we keep. That is applicable in social circles, education, business, and politics. And it is true in intercollegiate athletics, as well.

There are few businesses anywhere in the world that haven’t had to think differently over the past couple of years in this ever-changing environment that we are all immersed in, more than likely, forever. And Semoball.com is not immune to that. The website devoted to providing sports fans thorough coverage of sports throughout Southeast Missouri is still going to make that its mission on a daily basis, however, the internal pieces are going to be doing some shifting moving forward.

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. ...

Southeast Missouri State softball won an OVC series against Eastern Kentucky this past 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.

Earlier this week, Ohio Valley Commissioner Beth DeBauche wasn’t ready to make any significant adjustments as it related to the 2020 football season. However, she did state that the OVC Board of Presidents would be meeting on July 22 and 29 and may be doing just that.

ORAN, Mo. — Becoming successful in athletics takes hard work and dedication, along with time and commitment. For multiple sports, it takes even more. Oran senior and three-sport athlete Kaylee Payne showed what all four characteristics lead to after a successful athletic year with the Lady Eagles, earning her the 2020 Standard-Democrat Girls Athlete of the Year...

Calling Dr. Jerry Westbrook an original may be an understatement on a par with saying Cape Girardeau gets a bit warm in the summer. Westbrook, on the Southeast Missouri State faculty since 1995, is a fervent supporter of SEMO softball specifically and of women’s athletics in general...

When Southeast Missouri State athletic director Brady Barke was asked last month what it took to build a successful sport at his institution, he was very specific about the core of what was needed.

Southeast Missouri State softball coach Mark Redburn recently – and unexpectedly – got four commitments for the 2021 season and one of those players he feels pretty confident will be the best player in the Ohio Valley Conference next spring. When the NCAA recently voted to allow seniors from the 2020 class to return next year, due to the cancellation of spring sports, the Redhawks got a commitment from four seniors, most notably outfielder Rachel Anderson.

The only thing spreading more rapidly than the COVID-19 public health threat Thursday was the sporting events and leagues that were ceasing operations for the time being.

The Southeast Missouri State softball squad won three of five games over the weekend at the Bulldog Slamboree at Mississippi State.

Playing consistently is important regardless of the sport and if a team doesn’t, then it hampers its chances for success.

When a softball team has won eight consecutive games, it’s hard to narrow down precisely what that group is doing well because more than likely, it is good at a lot of things. That is the case with Southeast Missouri State.

The Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks defeated University of Missouri–Kansas City 3-0 on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, at the Southeast Softball Complex in Cape Girardeau.

Southeast Missouri State junior pitcher Rachel Rook tossed a one-hit shutout with a career-high 13 strikeouts as the Redhawks swept their way through the Stinger Classic in Montgomery, Alabama with a 2-0 win over South Carolina State (0-7) Sunday.

In the first game of a doubleheader in girls softball action in Troy, Alabama, it was the pitching of Southeast Missouri State pitcher Paytience Holman that would be the story leading the Redhawks to a 7-0 win.

In the first game of a double-header at Troy University it was a four-run third inning by the Owls of Kennesaw State that would spell doom for the Southeast Missouri State Redhawk softball team in its season opener.

Getting to the top of the mountain in Ohio Valley Conference play was a challenging trip for the Southeast Missouri State softball program. To ensure that the Redhawks have an opportunity to remain at – or at least within sight of – the top of the league, sixth-year coach Mark Redburn has to continually reload his roster with talent.

Summers are supposed to be centered on beaches, baseball, and barbecue, but certainly NOT biology. However, when you are a student-athlete at Southeast Missouri State, summer may mean several things, but classwork IS a part of it.

It’s easy for a fan or recruit of the Southeast Missouri State softball program to have confidence in the job that coach Mark Redburn has done today. After all, the Redhawks have made history over the last two seasons. However, take a step back a few years and what becomes clear is just how foretelling the vision of the Southeast leadership was.

It was a year of firsts for Southeast Missouri State softball in 2019. Not only did the team claim its first Ohio Valley Conference title since 1999, but Southeast was able to win a NCAA regional game in the NCAA Tournament. Although the historic season has concluded, the postseason honors however, have not...

Oxford­, Miss. —All good things must come to an end.  Southeast Missouri State softball survived one elimination game Saturday but a second proved too much. A rocky start proved to be damaging as the Redhawks were overwhelmed by Ole Miss (39-18) early, losing 10-0, and were eliminated from the Oxford Regional on Saturday at Ole Miss Softball Stadium. Earlier in the day, Southeast had defeated Chattanooga 2-1 in an elimination game...

Oxford, Miss. -- Playing in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999, the Southeast Missouri State softball team wanted to make a statement. However, Lexie Comeaux had the final word with a late RBI single that broke a tie and sent Louisiana-Lafayette to a 3-2 victory over the Redhawks on Friday afternoon in the Oxford Regional opener at the University of Mississippi...

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team dropped its third straight Ohio Valley Conference game Thursday, falling 13-9 to Morehead State in the opener of the a three-game series in Morehead, Kentucky. The Colonels blasted four home runs in the game, including two by Connor Pauly...

It's a moment Haley Thogmartin and Mykaela Arellanes have dreamed about since they were youngsters watching the NCAA Tournament on television and hoping one day that would be them on the screen. It took years of hard work, perseverance and trust in a vision for a downtrodden program, but that moment has arrived for the pair of seniors, and the rest of the Southeast Missouri State softball team. ...

Southeast Missouri State University softball player Maddie Harris, right, claps as other teammates laugh and cheer Wednesday after boarding a bus at Houck Field House bound for their NCAA Softball Regional in Oxford, Mississippi. The Redhawks will be making their first regional appearance since 1999 after winning the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. The Redhawks open regional play at 3:30 p.m. Friday against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette...

OXFORD, Ala. — If you wanted to know a little bit about what meant the most to Mykaela Arellanes on Saturday, all you had to do was look at how she was holding her Ohio Valley Conference softball hardware. While posing for photos and celebrating an OVC tournament championship in the Choccolocco Park outfield, the Southeast Missouri State outfielder held the tourney MVP award loosely in her right hand, almost as if it wouldn't matter if she happened to drop it...

For the first time in 20 years, the Southeast Missouri State softball team has won the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship. The Redhawks beat three-time reigning tournament champions Jacksonville State twice Saturday in Oxford, Alabama, to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament...

OXFORD, Ala. -- After a thrill ride of a day at the Ohio Valley Conference softball tournament, Southeast Missouri State is alive and in the championship round. In the winners' bracket final, the top-seeded Redhawks fell to three-time defending champion Jacksonville State 4-3 on Friday afternoon, with a seventh-inning comeback falling short. That put Southeast into the elimination bracket final Friday evening, where the Redhawks fought off a late rally by Eastern Kentucky to win 11-8...