Southeast Softball

The Southeast Missouri State softball team is riding high on a 10-game winning streak and got some more good news Monday when Rachel Anderson was announced as the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week. It's the first time in nearly a year a Redhawk earned that honor, and it's the second of Anderson's career...

After 24 games on the road, Southeast Missouri State softball fans got exactly what they have waited for all season. The Redhawks treated them to a home run, a school record and an all-around defensive performance as they defeated Missouri State 5-2 in their home opener in front of a near-capacity crowd at Southeast Softball Complex on Thursday...

Already 24 games into the season, the Southeast Missouri State softball team finally will be playing at home for the first time when it takes on Missouri State at 4 p.m. today at Southeast Softball Complex. Southeast coach Mark Redburn's team has experienced a heavy dose of travel to start the year, logging nearly 4,000 miles...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team picked up a pair of wins Friday in the Jayhawk Classic in Lawrence, Kansas. Ashley Ellis belted two home runs in an 8-2 win over the University of Missouri-Kansas City, before Rachel Rook blanked host Kansas in the second game, a 2-0 victory for the Redhawks...

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 softball team plated 19 runs in winning two games Friday in the Adam Brown Memorial Shamrock Classic hosted by the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. Southeast defeated the University of Louisiana-Monroe 8-0 in six innings, before beating host UCA 11-7...

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 softball mustered four hits and fell in its opening game at the Razorbacks Invitational. Tournament host Arkansas, ranked 12th in the nation, broke a tie game open with five runs in the fourth and went on to win 7-1 on Thursday in Fayetteville, Arkansas...

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...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team bounced back from an opening loss and earned a split in the first day of the Louisiana Tech Invitational on Friday. The Redhawks fell to Wichita State 8-0 in the opening game before earning a 10-2 win over Abilene Christian to improve to 5-2...

It's not quite a win, but the Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team snapped a three-game losing streak Thursday. The Redhawks battled Eastern Kentucky to a 1-1 tie in Ohio Valley Conference action at Houck Field. With the draw, SEMO improved to 2-7-1 overall, 0-3-1 in the OVC...

A quartet of representatives from the Southeast Missouri State track and field team have qualified for the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships preliminary competition. Marc Maton, Stephen Zagurski, Jonno Engelking and Richard Vinson will travel to the West Preliminary, to be held at California State University in Sacramento, California, on May 24-26...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team's offensive malaise continued Thursday, resulting in a season-ending defeat. The fourth-seeded Redhawks mustered just one run in a 4-1 defeat to No. 8 Morehead State at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama, and were eliminated from the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament...

The Southeast Missouri State softball team just couldn't find the finishing touch. The Redhawks took a 4-0 lead in the first inning but couldn't hold on, and a hopeful seventh inning quickly came apart and left No. 4 Southeast on the wrong side of a 5-4 result, dropping its Ohio Valley Conference Tournament opening game to fifth-seeded SIU Edwardsville on Wednesday afternoon at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama...

As Mark Redburn has gone about building the Southeast Missouri State softball program during the last few years, part of the process has been raising the talent level through recruiting. Along the way, he's picked up some pieces who know a thing or two about winning...

For the better part of the last decade, Southeast Missouri State softball has often received as much attention for legal drama off the field as its mediocrity on it. But things are changing. Sunday was a celebration of what the Redhawks have done on the field this season, using Senior Day to honor those who have fully experienced the ups and downs and are reaping the rewards...

Following a stretch of road games, the Southeast Missouri State softball team returned home and reaped the rewards of that home cooking. The Redhawks swept a doubleheader with Tennessee State, 16-8 and 9-0, in an offensive showcase Saturday at the Southeast Softball Complex...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After a strong week of team results, Southeast Missouri State softball is getting individual recognition as well. SEMO sophomore third baseman Addison Barnouski was named the adidas Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week, the league announced Monday...