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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Southeast Missouri baseball fell in 14 innings Saturday evening to the Indiana State Sycamores, 4-3. It was Southeast's longest game of the season, inning-wise.

The Sycamores scored three in the first inning and were completely shutout by Redhawk pitching for 12 innings before scoring the walk-off run in the bottom of the 14^th.

Southeast drops their second-straight series and falls to 31-19 on the season. Indiana State improves to .500 at 23-23.

The Redhawks are no longer undefeated in extra-inning games in 2015. They played four prior to Saturday's game.

Alex Winkelman issued back-to-back walks to start the bottom of the first inning. Andy Young took Winkelman deep to give the Sycamores a 3-0 lead before an out was recorded in the inning.

Dalton Hewitt was hit by a pitch with one out in the top of the second inning. Branden Boggetto then homered to left, his 10^th of the season, to cut the Indiana State lead to 3-2.

Both offenses were silent until the Redhawks scored a run in the eighth to tie the game. Trevor Ezell hit a one-out double, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored on an infield blooper over the pitcher by Garrett Gandolfo.

The game was all knotted up at 3-3 to send the game into extra innings.

Each team had a number of chances to score runs in extra innings but the pitching staffs kept finding ways to get out of the situations.

Alex Siddle gave up a leadoff walk to start the bottom of the 14^th. Zach Moore replaced Siddle on the mound following the base on balls. After Young was hit by a pitch, Jacob Hayes doubled to right center to drive in the winning run, 4-3 Indiana State.

For the second time, the Redhawks outhit the Sycamores, this time, 9-8.

Hunter Leeper notched three hits in the game. Leeper now has six base hits in the series including two home runs. Ezell and Boggetto each registered a pair of hits in the contest.

Winkelman pitched nine total innings Saturday. Winkelman allowed three runs on the first-inning home run but allowed only five hits in nine innings. He struck out six, walked five. Winkelman retired 14 batters in a row at one point. Siddle (3-1) suffered the loss after allowing the winning run to reach in the 14^th.

Ryan Keaffaber started the game for Indiana State and worked seven and a third innings. Austin Conway, the closer, pitched five innings in relief. Trent Lunsford (1-2) was the pitcher of record when the Sycamores walked off. Indiana State pitchers struck out 16 Redhawks Saturday.

The Redhawks and Sycamores will play game three of the series at noon, CT, Sunday.