Game 1 Box Score | PDF Version of Box Score
Game 2 Box Score | PDF Version of Box Score
MURRAY, Ky. - The Southeast Missouri (22-28, 13-15 Ohio Valley Conference) softball team dropped two games at OVC rival Murray State (28-16, 16-10 OVC) on Saturday, 1-3, 7-10.
Southeast 1, Murray State 3
The game remained scoreless until the sixth inning when Shelby Stein blasted her fourth career homerun to center field and got the Redhawks on the board.
The Racers were quick to answer back when they scored three unearned runs in their half of the sixth. Leslie Bridges hit a bases loaded sacrifice fly to tie the game. With two out, Casey Castile doubled to right field to score the go-ahead runs.
Stein went 1-for-2 with the Redhawks only RBI. Xia Wilson and Cheyenne Gipson were the only other Redhawks to record a hit.
Castile led the Racers with two hits in three at-bats and two RBI. Three other Racer batters recorded one hit each in the contest.
Alora Marble suffered her 13th loss of the season in her 21st complete game. Her record falls to .500 at 13-13. She held Murray to five hits and three unearned runs with four strikeouts.
Shelby Kosmeki (11-9) held Southeast to one run on only three hits.
Southeast 7, Murray State 10
The game started off when Sallis scored on a throwing error by the second basemen after a popup off the bat of Taylor Cowan.
Murray scored four runs of their own in the its half of the first inning. The first two came on a two-run homerun from Alexa Becker and the other two on a two-run double off the bat of Mandi Kellerman.
The Redhwks' bats came alive in the third inning. Renee Kertz knocked in her 40th RBI of the season on a double to left field to plate Sallis. Kertz came around to score on a Cowan single and an error. Lindsey Patterson followed that up with a two-run shot, her fourth of the season give the Redhawks a 5-4 lead on the Racers.
Once again, Murray had other thoughts. In its half of the third, MSU scored two back-to-back runs on an error and a sacrifice fly. Ellyn Troup homered to dead center field to put the Racers back in front by an 8-5 margin.
With two runners on in the fourth, Kertz singled to right to score Sallis. Cowan proceeded to hit a sacrifice fly to plate Gipson and narrow the deficit to a single run.
That was as close as Southeast would get the rest of the way. Murray plated two insurance runs in the sixth inning to secure the doubleheader sweep.
Evan Sallis went 4-for-4 in game two with three runs scored for Southeast. Kertz and Cowan each went 2-for-3. Kertz earned her 40th and 41st RBI of the season in game two. She is now four RBI away from tying the all-time career RBI record at Southeast.
Kellerman had a 2-for-3 game with three RBI. Three other Racers had 2-for-4 games, one of which was Becker who also had three RBI.
Taylor Cowan (1-6) suffered the loss in game two. She gave up six runs on nine hits through 5.2 innings of work. Cowan struck out four Racer batters.
CheyAnne Gaskey recorded her seventh win this season. She improves to 7-2. She gave up all seven runs to the Redhawks in five innings.
Southeast looks to avoid the series sweep tomorrow with the Racers. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.
