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NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Southeast Missouri baseball team fell in game one of the series against the Bradley Braves Friday by a score of 6-3.

Southeast falls to 3-5 on the season while Bradley climbs to 6-1.

Bradley jumped on the board quick in the first inning. After drawing a walk to lead off the game, Chris Godinez stole second and scored on a single up the middle by Spencer Gaa to put Bradley up 1-0.

Both offenses remained dormant until the top half of the fifth inning. After a fielder's choice put Isaac Smith on first, an error on a dropped tag by Branden Boggetto allowed him to take second. Smith immediately scored on an RBI single by Gaa to make it 2-0 Bradley.

Bradley really opened the lead in the seventh inning with three runs. Joey Lucchesi allowed a run before he was pulled from the game in favor of Greg Mosel, who inherited runners on the corners. Both runners scored, both charged to Lucchesi, to make it 5-0 after seven innings.

The only noise from the Redhawks came on a monster three-run home run off the bat of Ryan Rippee in the bottom of the seventh. Rippee's blast plated Andy Lennington and Dalton Hewitt. The Redhawks were right back in the hunt, 5-3.

The Braves added an insurance run in the ninth inning with a first-pitch home run by Evan Gruener to make it 6-3.

The Redhawks would go down in order in the ninth to end the game.

Alex Winkelman (0-1) suffered the loss after allowing two runs, one earned, in six innings of work. Winkelman fanned seven hitters and walked three. Wesley Pyles pitched one and a third innings of hitless, scoreless baseball in relief Friday. He struck out the first two hitters he faced.

Elliot Ashbeck (3-0) was the winner for the Braves on the mound. He worked six and a third innings, allowed three runs on five hits, struck out six, and walked none.

Offensively, the Redhawks had five hits, four of which coming from each of Southeast's first four hitters in the lineup.

The Braves had 10 hits in the contest. Gaa went 3-for-5 with three RBI. Zach Fairchild and Gruener each contributed two hits.

The Redhawks and Braves face off in a doubleheader Saturday beginning at 12 p.m. from New Orleans. Travis Hayes will make the start in game one followed by Ryan Lenaburg in the finale.