CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri baseball (14-10, 6-5) shut out Austin Peay (11-15, 4-7) Saturday, 10-0. The win secures the series victory for the Redhawks.
 
The Redhawk pitching staff held the Govs to only two hits in contest while the offense scattered 15. It's the first shutout over Austin Peay by Southeast since May 22, 2003.
 
Starter Clay Chandler (5-2) pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing both Governor hits. He struck out five and walked none. Joey Burris and Josh Haggerty each pitched a hitless inning in relief to combine for the shutout.
 
Chandler finishes the week pitching eight and two-thirds scoreless innings in two appearances and finishing with a win and a save. He allowed only three hits in his two appearances, struck out eight, and walked only one.
 
Caleb Powell (2-3) recorded the loss. He worked only three innings, allowed six runs on six hits. APSU used four total pitchers in the game.
 
Chris Osborne and Kylar Robertson each recorded three hits on Saturday while three others had two hits. Danny Wright and Brian Lees joined Osborne with two RBI apiece. Southeast knocked four doubles while Clayton Evans blasted a home run.  
 
For the seventh-straight game, the Redhawks scored before their opponents. Evans jumpstarted the third inning with a home run to left center, his second jack of the week. Southeast proceeded to load the bases. Wright drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 2-0. Lees flew out to center for a sacrifice fly, extending the lead to 3-0 for Southeast.
 
Southeast pushed five runs across and sent nine men to the plate in the bottom of the eighth to take a commanding lead on the Govs. SEMO began the inning by bunting the bases loaded. Osborne drove in a couple with a base hit poked through the right side. With one out, Tristen Gagan grounded out to third, scoring Evans. Wright followed with a base hit deep in the hole at short to plate Osborne. Lees barreled up a double to left center and Wright scored all the way from first, extending the lead to 8-0.
 
With two out and runners on the corners, Kyle Bottger sent a bouncing ball over the first baseman's head and into right field to plate SEMO's ninth run in the sixth.
 
Robertson added to the lead in the bottom of the eighth on an RBI single to left, plating Wright and making it 10-0.
 
The Redhawks will go for the sweep of the Govs Sunday at 1 p.m. Robert Beltran will start on the mound for Southeast.