CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. –
Danny Wright hit a grand slam,
Peyton Faulkner delivered a three-run home run and Southeast Missouri (11-17, 8-4) pounded out a season-high 24 hits in a 20-4 rout of Austin Peay (16-12, 7-5) Saturday.
SEMO scored four or more runs in three of the game's first five innings and slugged four home runs en route to matching its largest win of the season.
The Redhawks wasted no time against APSU starter Devan O'Donovan, who didn't record an out.
Chase Urhahn led off the game with a single to left field and was quickly at third following back-to-back wild pitches. Faulkner followed with an infield single and Urhahn scored. Immediately after another wild pitch,
Trevor Ezell tripled to right center and Faulkner scored. That was the end for Donovan who exited the game after facing only three hitters.
Justin
Dirden and Wright reached on consecutive one-out singles and
Wade Stauss walked to load the bases.
Dirden's hit brought home Ezell.
Connor Basler then doubled and both Wright and
Dirden scored to give the Redhawks a 5-0 lead. SEMO sent 10 hitters to the plate in the top of the first inning.
A two-out single by
Dirden pushed across another run for SEMO in the second inning.
The Redhawks continued to rip apart APSU pitching in the fourth and fifth frames.
With the bases loaded and one out, Wright blasted a grand slam to left center to key a five-run fourth inning. The home run was Wright's first of the season.
Faulkner drove a three-run home run down the right field line and Wright added a run-scoring single to widen SEMO's lead to 15-1 in the fifth.
Still not finished, the Redhawks scored twice more in the sixth and ninth innings and once in the seventh to bury the Governors.
A total of 10 different SEMO players had a hit. Of that group, seven tallied two or more. Urhahn went 4-for-5 with four runs scored, Ezell went 3-for-4 with three runs, Falukner rexcorded four RBI, Wright went 3-for-6 with two runs and five RBI, Basler finished at 4-for-6 with two runs and three RBI and
Dirden was 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBI.
Carlos Vega (4-3) picked up the win allowing only one run in six innings. Vega also notched a career-high 10 strikeouts and walked just one.
Donovan (1-1) suffered the loss, his first of the season.
SEMO returns to action when it hosts Arkansas State Apr. 3.
