LAWRENCE, Kan. – Southeast Missouri (9-9) dropped two games at the Kansas Jayhawk Invitational Sunday. The Redhawks fell to Missouri State (7-11), 10-8, and Wichita State (12-7), 14-0, in five innings.
 
MSU rallied to score four runs in the top of the seventh inning to pull off its come-from-behind victory.
 
Down, 8-6, after six innings, McKenzie Vaughan led things off with a walk and pinch runner Kelsie Lewis scored on a triple by Olivia Krehbiel. With one out, Ellie McCoy was hit by a pitch, stole second and went to third on an error. Krehbiel scored the tying run on the play. Run-scoring singles by Skyler Shaw and Payton Minnis came later to give the Bears their two-run advantage.
 
SEMO had a runner on with one out in the bottom of the seventh, but Tatum Gerwitz struck out and Abigail Rickermann was thrown out at second ending the game.
 
After falling behind, 2-0, in the top of the first inning, SEMO responded with six runs in its first at-bat of the game.
 
Alyson Tucker led off with a walk and quickly moved into scoring position on a single by Kaylee Anderson. With one out, Kat Sackett and Aubrie Shore both walked and Tucker scored on Shore's bases on balls. Chelsy Pena tied the game when she knocked in Anderson on a single to center. On the next play, Paige Halliwill smashed a grand slam over the center field wall to put the Redhawks ahead, 6-2. The home run marked the first of Halliwill's career.
 
MSU, after scoring once in each of the second and third innings, tied the game in the fifth.
 
SEMO, however, regained an 8-6 lead on a two-out pinch-hit double by freshman Sydney Melton in the bottom of the sixth inning.
 
Marisa Davis (1-2) fell to her second loss of the season after giving up four runs on three hits in two innings. Davis struck out four and walked one, as well.
 
Steffany Dickerson (5-4) picked up the win in relief. Dickerson threw two scoreless innings with two strikeouts.
 
MSU edged SEMO, 11-10, in the hit column.
 
Krehbiel fell a double shy of hitting for the cycle going 3-for-4 with a single, triple, home run, three runs and two RBI to lead the Bears.
 
Four Redhawks, including Anderson, Pena, Halliwill and Rickermann finished with two hits.
WSU hit a school record eight home runs in its victory over SEMO.
 
Seven of the nine starters in Shockers lineup homered in a shortened five-inning contest.
 
WSU had 12 hits in the game, 11 of which went for extra bases.
 
Paytience Holman (1-2) gave up seven runs on five hits in 1.1 innings, while freshman Delaney Kell scattered six hits and allowed seven runs in one inning of work.
 
SEMO closes out play at the Jayhawk Invitational at tournament host Kansas Monday.