CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Left-hander Dylan Dodd struck out eight in another strong outing and Tyler Wilber and Andrew Keck each added two hits to lead Southeast Missouri (17-14, 10-6) to its 10th Ohio Valley Conference win of the season, a 7-3 victory over Tennessee Tech (11-15, 5-8) Friday.
 
Dodd (4-1), who retired TTU in order in the first and third innings, allowed just two runs in 6.2 innings of work. He finished with at least eight strikeouts for the eighth time in nine starts this season.
 
SEMO gave Dodd a three-run lead to work with in the bottom of the second inning.
 
Down, 1-0, with the bases loaded and two outs, Wilber smacked a bases clearing double to right center to give the Redhawks their first lead of the night.
 
Three innings later, SEMO tacked on four more runs.
 
Wilber led off the bottom of the fifth with a single to left field, went to second on a base hit by Keck and scored on a double by Wade Stauss. Keck touched home on a sacrifice fly by Lincoln Andrews. Peyton Leeper and Austin Blazevic followed with back-to-back RBI-doubles to stretch the Redhawks lead to 7-2.
 
TTU scored once more in the eighth, but that was as close as it would get.
 
SEMO, which has won five of its last six games, posted eight hits.
 
Wilber and Keck accounted for half of those tallies and scored one run apiece. Wilber and Keck kept their hitting streaks intact at nine and eight games, respectively.
 
Leeper, Blazevic and Basler combined for three more hits and three runs in the bottom three spots of the lineup.
 
Freshman Kyle Miller again gave SEMO quality work out of the bullpen. Miller struck out three, walked none and allowed one run in the final 2.1 innings.
 
Jackson Berry (2-2) suffered the loss. Berry scattered five hits and allowed six runs to go along with four strikeouts and four walks in four innings.
 
SEMO opened a series with a win for the seventh time in 2021. 
 
The Redhawks and Golden Eagles conclude their three-game set with a 1 p.m., CT doubleheader Saturday.