Game One - PDF Box Score
Game Two - PDF Box Score

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri baseball swept the Jacksonville State Gamecocks in a doubleheader Saturday. Southeast won game one 9-5 and took game two, 6-3. With the doubleheader sweep, Southeast swept the three-game series with Jacksonville. 

It is the first time since these teams first met in 2004 that Southeast has swept Jacksonville State in a three-game series. Southeast is now on a five-game winning streak. 

Southeast improves to 25-14 on the season and 16-5 in Ohio Valley Conference play. Southeast holds on to sole possession of first place in the league. JSU falls to 19-19 and 7-11 in OVC play. 

Southeast Missouri 9, Jacksonville State 5
Jacksonville State touched home in the first inning when Tyler Gamble hit a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Gavin Golson and giving the Gamecocks a 1-0 lead. 

Another sacrifice fly, this time by Hayden White, extended the lead to 2-0 in the second inning. Jacksonville had bases loaded with no out before the sac fly but a 4-6-3 double play ended the early Gamecock rally.

Trevor Ezell blasted a leadoff home run to right field in the bottom of the fourth inning to put Southeast on the board and narrow the Gamecock lead to 2-1 after four complete innings. 

As in Friday's game, Southeast used a big fifth inning to take their first lead of the game. Ryan Rippee led off the inning with a double that split the right-center gap. Scott Mitchell drew a walk followed by Jason Blum sacrifice bunting both runners over. Clayton Evans was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. The game was tied at 2-2 when Ezell drew a bases-loaded walk. Game one's hero Branden Boggetto gave the Redhawks the lead with a two-run double down the left field line. Garrett Gandolfo made it 5-2 with a sac fly to left. 

With two out and runners on second and third, Evans drilled a base hit to left, scoring both runners and widening the lead to 7-2 in the sixth inning. 

A leadoff home run by Ryan Sebra and a two-run jack by White slimmed Southeast's lead to 7-5 in the seventh. 

The Redhawks got both runs back in the bottom of the inning. With runners on the corners and no out, Andy Lennington hit a base hit to score Boggetto. Rippee grounded into a bases-loaded double play that Gandolfo scored on. Southeast led 9-5 going to the eighth inning. 

Southeast outhit Jacksonville State 10-6 in the opening game of the doubleheader. Boggetto and Rippee each had a pair of hits in the game while Ezell, Boggetto, and Evans each had two RBI. 

Travis Hayes (6-4) picked up the win. Hayes worked eight complete innings, allowing five runs on six hits. He fanned four batters and walked three. Ryan Lenaburg pitched the ninth inning to close the game. 

Paul Angel had the only multi-hit game for the Gamecocks, going 2-for-4. 

Jake Walsh (1-2) recorded the loss. Walsh worked four and a third innings, allowing five runs on three hits. 

Southeast Missouri 6, Jacksonville State 3
Southeast used a pair of two-out, two-run home runs in the opening frame to take a 4-0 lead on Jacksonville in the first inning. The two-run shots came from Lennington and Rippee. JSU starter Colton Campbell only recorded two outs before he was taken out of the game. 

Boggetto extended the lead to 5-0 in the fifth inning with his third home run of the series. 

JSU got on the board in the sixth inning. Elliot McCummings doubled in Gamble make the score 5-1. 

The Gamecocks made it 5-2 when Clayton Daniel hit a sac fly to score Josh Bobo. 

A bases-loaded infield single by Mitchell plated Southeast's sixth run to extend the lead to 6-2. 

A two-out home run by Paschal Petrongolo in the ninth inning brought the final score to 6-3. 

The Redhawks once again outhit the Gamecocks 10-7. Gandolfo, Lennington, and Blum all had two hits a piece in game two. 

Boggetto finished the week hitting .429 (6-for-14) with three home runs, a double, and five RBI. 

Alex Winkelman picked up his second win of the season and improves to 2-2. Winkelman pitched six and two-thirds innings. He allowed two runs on six hits, striking out eight and walking four. Alex Siddle earned his first save of the season when he worked two and a third innings in the night cap. 

Colton Campbell (1-2) pitched only two-thirds of an inning and recorded the loss. He allowed four runs on three hits in the first inning. 

Southeast Missouri will return to action Tuesday in Carbondale, Illinois with a 6:30 matchup against Southern Illinois. Garret Stockton will get the start on the mound.