Box Score CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.– Southeast Missouri (5-1) put together a dominating 14-2 win to even its series with Western Illinois (1-4) Saturday afternoon at Capaha Field.
 
SEMO racked up six extra base hits, including two doubles, two triples and a pair of home runs to cruise past the Leathernecks.
 
A two-run home run by Alex Dorethy gave WIU a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning.
 
The Leathernecks early lead was short-lived as SEMO immediately answered with eight runs, including three in the second and five in the fourth.
 
With two on and one out after Hunter Southerland was hit by a pitch and Turner Fritts walked, Austin Bazevic blasted his second home run of the season over the right field wall to give the Redhawks a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the second inning.
 
In the fourth inning, SEMO added five more runs with the help of two doubles, a passed ball and one base hit. Peyton Faulkner smacked a two-RBI double to right field and both Blazevic and Southerland scored on the play. After a pitching change, Connor Basler greeted WIU reliever Austin Emanuel with a double and Faulkner scored. Basler later touched home on a passed ball and Wade Stauss singled home Brett Gonzalez to push SEMO's lead to 8-2.
 
WIU continued to have issues on the mound in the fifth inning where two walks, a pair of hit batsmen and wild pitch led to a run. Then, with the bases loaded and two outs, Tyler Wilber ripped a triple to right scoring Basler, Faulkner and Alex Nielsen. Stauss knocked in Wilber on an ensuing triple to make it 13-2.
 
SEMO put its fifth win of the season on ice with a leadoff home run by Trent Pobst in the eighth inning.     
 
The Redhawks outhit WIU, 11-6, with Wilber going 3-for-4 with a run scored, triple, walk and three RBI to lead the way. Stauss followed with two hits and Blazevic scored three runs and had three RBI.
 
Noah Niznik pitched strong to get his first win of the season. Niznik struck out four, scattered five hits and allowed two runs in five innings. He also recorded five fly ball outs and four groundball outs.
 
Dorethy (0-2) suffered the loss. He was roughed up for six runs on three hits in 3.2 innings. WIU's bullpen allowed eight runs and six hits, and walked four over the final 4.1 frames.
 
SEMO and WIU wrap up their series at 1 p.m., CT, Sunday.