FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Rachel Anderson broke Southeast Missouri career records in hits and walks, and the Redhawks split two games on the opening day of the Razorback Invitational Friday. SEMO beat North Dakota State, 6-2, and fell to #24 Arkansas, 9-3.
 
Anderson broke her program's all-time hits record and SEMO (1-6) used a six-run sixth inning to pick up its first win of the season over NDSU. She officially broke the record with a leadoff bunt single in the top of the fourth inning. Anderson surpassed Jenny Oermann (1996-99) for the new mark.
 
Rachel Rook and Paige Vargas were locked up in a good pitcher's duel until all the scoring came in the sixth inning.
 
SEMO opened the floodgates when R. Anderson started a six-run, five-hit surge with a single through the left side. Anderson stole second and scored the game's first run on a single by Ashley Ellis. Three-straight extra base hits followed, including a two-run home run by Kaylee Anderson, a double by Chelsy Pena and three-run homer by Ashley Emert to grab the Redhawks a 6-0 advantage.
 
NDSU answered with two runs of its own in the bottom of the sixth which started with an inside the park home run by Madyson Camacho. The Bison put up their other run on a RBI-single by Stephanie Soriano to make it a 6-2 contest.
 
Rook (1-3) earned her first win of the season. She scattered six hits, struck out four, walked none and allowed two runs in five innings. Rook retired the Bison in order in each of the third and fourth frames.
 
Left-hander Marisa Davis pitched two scoreless innings with a strikeout to close out SEMO's victory.
 
Both SEMO and NDSU had eight hits and committed an error.
 
R. Anderson and K. Anderson each went 2-for-4 with a run scored. K. Anderson added two RBI on her first round-tripper of the year. Ellis, Pena and Emert each hit safely and scored, while freshman Abigail Rickermann contributed a hit in her first career start at second base.
 
SEMO gave Mark Redburn his 150th career win as the Redhawks head coach.
 
In the nightcap, #24 Arkansas wasted no time getting ahead of the Redhawks.
 
The Razorbacks put up four runs in the bottom of the first inning and another in the second. 
 
A three-run home run by Audrie LaValley keyed Arkansas' first inning before Braxton Burnside hit a solo home run to give the Razorbacks a 5-0 cushion in the second.
 
SEMO got on the board in the top of the fourth. R. Anderson singled to right and K. Anderson doubled before Ellis scored both runners on a base hit to left field. Ellis' two-RBI hit narrowed the Razorbacks lead to 5-2.
 
Arkansas, however, answered with a grand slam by Burnside in the bottom half of the inning. Burnside's second homer of the game increased the Razorbacks lead to 9-2.
 
Anna Griffin posted her first hit and RBI of the season when she scored K. Anderson on a single to left center in the top of the sixth. 
 
K. Anderson accounted for two of SEMO's five hits against the Razorbacks. She was 2-for-3 with two runs and a double. R. Anderson drew her career record 89th walk in the top of the first inning.
 
Paytience Holman (0-3) scattered four hits and gave up five runs. Holman also walked two and struck out one in two innings.
 
The Redhawks resume action at the Razorback Invitational vs. Texas Tech (12:30 p.m.) and Arkansas (3 p.m.) Saturday.