CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri baseball (7-7) defeated in-state foe Missouri State (12-4) Wednesday at Capaha Field in walk off fashion, 5-4.
 
Dan Holst walked off in the ninth inning on a bases-loaded single to drive in Danny Wright and defeat the Bears. The win snaps a three-game losing skid by the Redhawks. 
 
The Redhawks held a 4-0 lead going to the sixth inning but two-run innings in the sixth and eighth erased the Redhawk lead late in the contest.
 
Southeast was narrowly outhit in the game, 9-8. Freshman Wright finished with a season-high three hits, finishing 3-for-3 with a double, walk, and two runs, one of which was the winning run. Chris Osborne finished the day with a pair of hits.
 
Despite striking out 14 times, the Redhawks were victorious over the Bears.
 
In his second start of the season, lefty Nate Green pitched six complete innings, surrendering two runs on six hits. He struck out three and walked only one. Matthew Wade (1-0) walked away the winner. He pitched one and two-thirds scoreless innings to finish the game. 
 
All-American Missouri State closer Bryan Young (0-1) recorded the loss after allowing the winning run in the ninth. MSU starter Austin Knight pitched four innings, allowed four runs on only three hits, and struck out seven.
 
Wednesday's game was the first since game three against Western Illinois on Feb. 27 in which the Redhawks crossed the plate before its opponent.
 
Chris Caffrey and Wright each drew walks to lead off the bottom of the third inning. Connor Basler moved both runners up with a sacrifice bunt back to the pitcher. Clayton Evans put the Redhawks on the board with a groundout to second, scoring Caffrey.
 
The Redhawks' first hit of the game came on a two-run homer to left off the bat of Brian Lees, his second home run of the season. After four innings, SEMO led 3-0.  
 
Wright and Basler each singled to begin the Redhawks' half of the fifth inning. The Bears went to the pen for Jake Fromson who immediately retired the first two batters he faced. With two out, a wild pitch to Holst allowed Wright to score and widen the Redhawk lead to 4-0.
 
Missouri State sliced the lead in half in the top of the sixth inning. The inning began with Jake Burger being hit by a pitch followed by a single through the left side by Jeremy Eierman. Justin Paulson drove in Burger with a base hit into right field. Eierman scored on a sacrifice fly to pull within two, 4-2.
 
The Bears made it a whole new ballgame in the top of the eighth inning. Paulsen cut the lead to one with an RBI single poked through the right side. With runners on the corners, Alex Jefferson pushed the tying run across on a groundout to first base, 4-4.
 
Wade worked a stellar top of the ninth to strand two Bears on and preserve the tie.
 
Wright began the ninth inning with a leadoff single poked through the right side. He moved into scoring position on a Basler sac bunt. Evans drew a walk followed by an infield single to short by Osborne to load the bases, one out. Holst drove in the winning run on a single through the right side, plating Wright, and downing the Bears, 5-4.
 
Hunter Steinmetz and Paulsen each finished with three hits for Missouri State.
 
The Redhawks will continue their homestand this weekend with a three-game conference series against UT Martin. The series will begin at 6 p.m. Friday evening.