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JONESBORO, Ark. – The Southeast Missouri baseball team's four-game winning streak was snapped Tuesday evening as the Redhawks fell to the Arkansas State (5-4) Red Wolves, 8-3. Southeast falls to 6-3 on the season.
 
"Despite having 11 hits, we had trouble producing runs when we had the opportunities to tonight," said head coach Steve Bieser. "They out-pitched, out-hit, and just out-played us tonight. We came out of the gate strong but lost intention after that."
 
The Redhawks wasted no time throwing runs on the board. Cole Bieser reached on a single then scored from first on a double off the bat of Matt Tellor with one out in the first inning. With Tellor standing on second, Andy Lennington picked up his eighth RBI of the season and extended the early lead to 2-0.
 
The Red Wolves touched home once in the bottom of the second to narrow the Redhawk lead to 2-1. Dustin Jones led off the inning with a double to left-center followed by a single from Ty Michelotti. With the runners in scoring position and one out, Lucas Feddersen grounded out to short, driving in the Red Wolves' first run.
 
Redhawk starter Alex Winkelman found himself in trouble in the bottom of the third. The inning began with another leadoff double. A walk and a hit batsman loaded the bases for the Red Wolves with no out. After Winkelman walked in the tying run, Alex Siddle was brought in to relieve. The defense rolled a 6-4-3 double play on the first batter faced but still scored the go-ahead run. Another run crossed the plate on a Jason Blum error. The runner who reached on an error, Michelotti, was picked off by Siddle to get out of the inning.
 
After retiring the first two batters in the fourth inning, Siddle gave up a walk, followed by another Redhawk error, followed by another walk, loading the bases for the Red Wolves in the fourth inning. Siddle was pulled as Skylar Cobb was brought in to the game. Cobb got the first hitter he faced to ground out to Tellor, getting out of the inning unscathed.
 
Arkansas State picked up their first RBI hit of the night when they extended the lead to 5-2 in the fifth inning. Derek Birginske led off the inning with a single to left. Cobb quickly got two out but was replaced by Travis Hayes. Hayes gave up an infield single to deep short followed by an RBI single by Feddersen. 5-2 Red Wolves after five innings.
 
Southeast earned a run in the top of the seventh inning. Blum drew a leadoff walk to open the inning. Bieser followed that up with a single through the left side. Tellor hit a dribbler to the pitcher who snagged the ball to get Bieser at second on the fielder's choice. Blum scored on a ground out by Derek Gibson to narrow the Red Wolve lead to 5-3.
 
Arkansas State blew the game wide open with a two-RBI triple by Austin Baker off of Garret Stockton in the eighth inning. Greg Mosel was brought in as Southeast's seventh pitcher of the game. Baker scored on an RBI flare to center, 8-3.
 
Southeast came up empty in the top of the ninth inning as the Redhawk's four-game winning streak was snapped with the 8-3 loss.
 
Winkelman (0-2) suffered his second loss of the season after pitching only two innings. The six-pitcher bullpen, which has been so good all season, gave up four earned runs in Tuesday's game.
 
Red Wolf relief pitcher Tanner Gaines (1-0) was the winning pitcher. Gaines worked 4.1 innings, giving up only one run on four hits to Southeast.
 
Southeast managed to scatter 11 hits in the contest, just barely being out-hit, 12-11. Blum, Bieser, Gibson, and Cole Ferguson all had two hits in the contest. Ferguson was perfect in his two plate appearances Tuesday evening.
 
For Arkansas State, Baker was 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored.
 
Part two of the annual home-and-home series will happen April 1 when Southeast Missouri plays host Arkansas State at 6 p.m.
 
But first, the Redhawks will head to Memphis this weekend for a three-game series with the Memphis Tigers. First pitch Friday is slated for 5 p.m. from FedExPark.