HAMMOND, La. – Fifth-year senior Rachel Rook struck out 12 in a complete game one-hit shutout and Southeast Missouri (1-0) scored its most runs in a season-opener during a 13-0 blowout over Alabama A&M (0-1) Friday afternoon at the Lion Classic.
 
Rook struck out the side in each of the first two innings and fanned eight of the first nine hitters she faced. SEMO's 13 runs surpassed the Redhawks previous program record of 11 done in multiple season-opening games. 
 
SEMO wasted no time giving Rook a lead when it jumped all over Bulldog starting pitcher Alyssa Lopez.
 
The Redhawks roughed up Lopez – who did not record an out – for six runs on four hits in the bottom of the first inning. Lopez was knocked out of the game after facing only six hitters.
 
AAMU committed a pair of errors in the bottom of the first which saw 11 hitters come to the plate for SEMO. Kaylee Anderson knocked in the Redhawks first run of the season with a single up the middle on a 3-2 pitch. Marshall University transfer Kat Sackett later brought home Anderson on a base hit before freshman Aubrie Shore smacked a two-RBI triple to right center in her first collegiate at-bat. Jillian Anderson's two-RBI hit put SEMO ahead, 7-0.
 
The Redhawks added five more runs during their at-bat in the third. 
 
Shore led things off with a solo home run to left center. After Kileigh Grisham touched home on a passed ball, Paige Halliwill doubled home two runs. K. Anderson delivered her second hit of the game to score Halliwill pushing SEMO's lead to 12-0.
 
Nine-hole hitter Alyson Tucker plated the final run of the game on a single to left field in the fourth inning.
 
Rook (1-0) was perfect through her first 3.2 innings before Tatianna Roman gave the Bulldogs their lone hit of the game in the top of the fourth. Rook struck out all but seven of the hitters she faced and walked just two in five innings. The shutout was the 13th of her career. Rook also struck out 10 or more in a game for the sixth time as a Redhawk.
 
SEMO outhit AAMU, 11-1, with eight different players getting a hit.
 
Shore went 2-for-2 with a pair of extra base hits, two runs and three RBI, while Halliwill finished at 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI, and K. Anderson went 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBI.
 
J. Anderson followed with two runs, a hit and two RBI, while Sackett, Kelby Robinson, Sydney Dennis and Tucker were the others in the hit column.

SEMO improved to 16-15 all-time in season-opening games since elevating to NCAA Division I status in 1992.
 
The Redhawks play again when they face tournament host Southeastern Louisiana at 5 p.m., CT tonight.