Southeast 9 SIUE 4 - Box Score

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri seniors Taylor Heon and Jesse Tierney combined for four hits and five RBI to carry the Redhawks (20-33, 11-14 OVC) past SIUE (26-27, 12-13) Thursday evening at Capaha Field, 9-4.
 
“Tonight was a good performance on the mound and defensively for the club,” said head coach Mark Hogan. “Our bats were very good at the bottom of the lineup and that's where it all started.”

Freshman Will Spitzfaden (2-2) earned the win going 5.1 innings allowing two earned runs on five hits.

"Will gave us everything we wanted and more, he has such a bright future," said Hogan.
 
Southeast outhit the Cougars 14-7 with 13 of the Redhawks hits coming off of SIUE starter Travis Felax.
 
The Redhawks opened the scoring in the second inning with four runs. Tierney opened the scoring with an RBI double that was laced into right centerfield.
 
Heon followed Tierney with his second career home run, the round tripper to left field expanded the Southeast lead to 4-0.
 
After the Redhawks added a run in the third inning SIUE added a tally in the fourth and fifth innings to cut the Southeast advantage to 5-2.
 
The Redhawks responded to the Cougar's come back bid with four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Tierney once again added an RBI double, his second of the contest that scored Ryan Barnes to open up the four run frame.
 
Kenton Parmley added a three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth to extend the Redhawks lead to 9-2. Parmley's blast was his tenth of the season.
 
SIUE added two runs in the top of the sixth inning, but the Redhawk bullpen (Michael Patman, Ryan Kendall, Trevor Kill) allowed only two hits in the final 3.2 innings as the Redhawks picked up a key 9-4 win over SIUE that keeps the Redhawks a half a game up on Tennessee Tech for the final OVC Tournament spot.
 
Barnes and Derek Gibson added three hits apiece for the Redhawks. Barnes added three runs for the Redhawks.
 
“Barnes was very comfortable at the plate today,” said Hogan.
 
Trenton Moses extended his hitting streak to 21-games and his reaching base safely streak to 73-games going 2-for-5 on the night with a double.
 
Felax (6-5) was tagged with the loss going  Five innings allowing 13 hits and nine runs (eight earned ).  James Vasquez was 2-for-4 with two RBI to pace the SIUE offense.
 
The two teams will meet again Friday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., CT. at Capaha Field.