BEAUMONT, Texas – Southeast Missouri baseball (0-2) fell to Lamar University (2-0) in an extra-inning affair Saturday. A walk off single in the 10^th inning lifted the Cardinals to a 2-1 victory.
 
Much like game one on Friday, Saturday's game a low-scoring pitchers duel. Clay Chandler started his first game in a Redhawk uniform on the mound. Chandler pitched eight innings, allowing just one run on only two hits. He struck out 10 Cardinal hitters and walked only two.
 
"Clay shook off the nerves after the first inning and threw a gem of a game," head coach Steve Bieser said. "He was able to keep Lamar hitters off balance all game and deserved to get a win today. We played solid defensively behind him and once again we had a chance to win a ballgame; however, our offense continues to sputter. We are having difficulty stringing consecutive good at bats together and put any pressure on the opposing pitching staff. Tomorrow's a new day and we will continue to make the necessary adjustments and changes to have a good offensive team.
 
Justin Murphy (0-1) suffered the loss after allowing the winning run. Murphy pitched one and two thirds innings in relief.
 
Jayson McKinley started for Lamar. McKinley pitched six innings scoreless innings before exiting the game. Brett Brown allowed the Redhawks' only run on two hits. Jimmy Johnson (1-0) earned the win as he was the pitcher of record in the bottom of the 10^th inning.
 
Lamar touched home in the bottom of the first inning. With two on and two out, Reid Russell singled through the left side to score Jacoby Middleton and take an early 1-0 lead on Southeast. Chandler got Trey Silvers to chase strike three to end the inning and record his first strikeout as a Redhawk.
 
From then on, Chandler settled in and began to plow through the Cardinal lineup. Including the strikeout of Silver in the first, Chandler retired 14-straight batters, eight of which came by way of strikeout.
 
The Redhawks had their first opportunity to score in the fifth inning. Hunter Leeper and Brian Lees hit back-to-back two-out singles but the Redhawks couldn't capitalize on the situation.
 
Lamar's 1-0 lead held until Southeast's half of the eighth inning. Lees led off the inning with a single through the four hole. Lees advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Trevor Ezell then scored on a single to left center from Branden Boggetto to tie the game at 1-1. Southeast had runners on first and second with one out but the opportunity to take a lead was snuffed with an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play.
 
Brendan Arredondo knocked a one-out base hit in the bottom of the 10^th inning. After a groundout to third, Brendan Satran stepped in a lined a single down the left field line, allowing Arredondo to score the winning run; 2-1 Lamar.
 
Southeast outhit the Cardinals 8-5 in the game. Garrett Gandolfo, Boggetto, and Lees each had a two-hit game. Gandolfo owned the game's only extra base hit, a double in the first inning.
 
The Redhawks and Cardinals face off in the series finale on Sunday at 1 p.m. Robert Beltran will get the ball for Southeast on the mound.