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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri baseball won its fifth-straight game Tuesday evening with a 13-1 win over the Saint Louis University Billikens. With the win, Southeast swept the home-and-home series with the Billikens.
The Redhawks are now 14-9 on the season while Saint Louis is 15-9.
Southeast Missouri pegged the Billikens for eight runs in the second inning. Branden Boggetto belted a bases-loaded triple to clear the bases and put Southeast up 3-0. Clayton Evans plated Boggetto on a groundout to short to make it 4-0. Jason Blum blasted a two-run home run, his first of the season, to extend the lead to 6-0. SLU starter Connor Lehmann was knocked out of the game after only pitching one and a third innings. Garrett Gandolfo scored on a double by Dalton Hewitt. Hewitt then scored on an infield single to short by Boggetto to extend the lead to 8-0 after only two innings.
Saint Louis got on the board with an RBI single by Mike Vigliarolo in the top of the third. 8-1 Southeast.
The Redhawks plated another four runs in the bottom of the third inning. Ezell and Blum scored on a double by Gandolfo. Hewitt singled to drive Gandolfo in, followed by a single by Scott Mitchell to plate Hewitt. 12-1 Southeast Missouri after three innings.
The Redhawks scored one more run in the fourth inning on an RBI double by Blum to score Evans. 13-1 Southeast Missouri after four innings.
Both offenses would be held silent the rest of the contest.
Eleven substitutions were used by the Billikens in the game; six coming to start the bottom of the fifth. Southeast had eight to bring the total to 19 subs in the game.
Southeast scored their 13 runs on 13 hits while SLU committed three errors.
Blum went 3-for-4, reached base five times, drove in three runs and scored two. He was a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. Five other Redhawks each contributed a pair of hits with Boggetto finishing with four RBI.
Garret Stockton (1-0) pitched six innings, allowing only one run on eight hits. He struck out three and walked two. Zach Moore, Wesley Pyles, and Perry Middleton each pitched an inning in relief.
Jake Henson and Vigliarolo each had a pair of hits for the Billikens.
Lehmann (1-2) recorded the loss after giving up six runs in only one and a third innings. Saint Louis used six total pitchers in the game.
The Redhawks hit the road Wednesday when they head to Arkansas State. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. Jacob Lawrence will make his second start of the season.
