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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Southeast Missouri baseball team dropped a midweek game to Arkansas State Tuesday evening, 12-10. Southeast and Arkansas State split the home-and-home series this season.
The Redhawks are now 17-11 on the season while the Red Wolves climb to 12-14.
This is only Southeast's second home loss and are now 6-2 at Capaha Field in 2015.
After going 3-for-3 with six RBI Sunday, Dalton Hewitt followed it up going 3-for-4 with three RBI, three runs scored, two doubles, and a home run Tuesday evening.
Hewitt led off the second inning for Southeast with a home run down the right field line. After a fly out, Branden Boggetto hit a home run of his own, this time to left field, to make it 2-0. Clayton Evans and Trevor Ezell hit back-to-back doubles to extend the early lead to 3-0 after two innings.
Garrett Gandolfo hit a leadoff home run in the third inning. After a pair of walks, Scott Mitchell doubled to drive in Ryan Rippee. Hewitt scored on a groundout by Boggetto, widening the Redhawk lead to 6-0 in the third.
Collin Massanelli got the Red Wolves on the board with a solo home run to left in the fourth, 6-1 Southeast. After a hit batsman and a walk, an RBI single and a two-base error by Hewitt in right field plated two runs for the Red Wolves. An RBI single then narrowed the Redhawk lead to 6-4.
Arkansas State put up another four spot in the fifth inning to wipe away the Redhawk lead and go ahead on Southeast, 8-6. After Garret Stockton was knocked out of the game, Southeast brought in three more pitchers in the inning.
Southeast got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Hewitt scored on an RBI base hit by Boggetto, 8-7 Red Wolves.
The Red Wolves plated three more runs in the sixth to go out in front, 11-7, on the Redhawks.
A bases loaded wild pitch with nobody out got a Southeast run back in the sixth inning, 11-8. The Redhawk rally died when Adam Grantham came in to pitch and struck out the side to end the inning.
A home run by Matt Burgess in the seventh inning added to the Red Wolves' lead, 12-8.
After a pair of one-out walks, Hewitt drove in both runners on a double down the right field line to bring the score within two in the eighth, 12-10.
Southeast got the tying runs on base with two out in the bottom of the ninth but couldn't hit anything Grantham was throwing, falling to the Red Wolves, 12-10.
Arkansas State narrowly outhit Southeast, 15-14. Both teams had three home runs each in the game.
Aside from Hewitt, Ezell also finished with a trio of hits in the game, going 3-for-4 with an RBI, a run, and two walks. Jason Blum, Gandolfo, and Boggetto all had two hits each. Boggetto finished with three RBI.
Zach George went 3-for-5 for ASU. Four other Red Wolf hitters each had two hits.
Brady Wright (0-3) suffered the loss after giving up the go-ahead three-run home run in the fifth inning. Stockton worked four innings in his fifth start of the season. The Redhawks used six pitchers in the game. Zach Moore pitched three innings in relief to finish the game.
Chandler Hawkins (2-5) earned the win for the Red Wolves. He pitched three innings out of the pen. Grantham earned his first save of the season after four innings of work to close the game. Grantham struck out eight of the 14 batters he faced.
The Redhawks continue the home stand when they host Austin Peay in a three-game Ohio Valley Conference series this weekend. First pitch of game one is slated for 6:30 p.m. Thursday evening.
