COOKEVILLE, Tenn. –
Kaylee Anderson and
Paige Halliwill homered in game one, and
Sydney Dennis had three hits in the nightcap, as Southeast Missouri (14-12, 3-2) dropped a pair of close games to Tennessee Tech (19-9, 2-3) Saturday.
SEMO fell by scores of 5-3 and 5-4 in 10 innings.
Anderson belted her team-high fifth home run of the season to get SEMO on the board. Her solo shot cleared the fence in right center with one out in the top of the fourth inning.
An inning later, freshman
Tori Bradley started things off with a double to left center. Pinch-runner
Kileigh Grisham scored when
Sydney Melton reached on an error to cut TTU's lead to
4-2.
Halliwill stepped in and started the seventh with a first-pitch home run to right field. Halliwill's third home run in two games trimmed TTU's lead to 5-3 and that was as close as SEMO would get.
Rachel Rook (8-5) worked three innings and gave up four runs, three of which were unearned. Rook also struck out five and increased her strikeout total to 108 this season.
Anderson finished at 2-for-3 with a run scored to lead the Redhawks, her team-best eighth multi-hit game in 2022.
SEMO starting shortstop
Alyson Tucker was helped off the field in the first inning after sustaining an injury on a throw to second base. Tucker was backing up the throw on the play. She did not return.
In the nightcap, SEMO battled back from a three-run deficit to tie the game at 3-3 on two-RBI infield single by
Sydney Dennis with one out in the top of the fourth inning. Bradley knocked in both
Kat Sackett and Grisham who pinch ran for Bradley.
TTU had the bases loaded and pulled ahead in the bottom of the fourth when an infield hit by Carmen Betts made it a 4-3 ballgame.
Sydney Dennis' two-out single tied the game in the top of the sixth.
SEMO and TTU then headed into extra innings where the Golden Eagles used a walk-off home run by Betts with two outs in the bottom of the 10
th to escape with a one-run win.
The Redhawks pounded out 11 hits with Dennis going 3-for-4 with three RBI to lead the way.
SEMO and TTU wrap up their series at 1 p.m., CT Sunday.