Stauss and Cameron Homer in Redhawks Loss to Middle Tennessee - Southeast Missouri State University Athletics

Tuesday, February 21

Murfreesboro, Tenn.

3:00 PM

Southeast Missouri State University

1-3

Middle Tennessee

2-2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
SE Missouri State	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	5	1
Middle Tennessee	0	1	3	0	0	0	2	2	X	8	10	0

Final Statistics

2/21/2023 5:30:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score Final Statistics

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Ty Stauss and Josh Cameron each hit a home run as Southeast Missouri (1-3) fell to Middle Tennessee (2-2), 8-3, Tuesday afternoon at Reese Smith Jr. Field.

SEMO met former Ohio Valley Conference member MTSU for the first time in 20 years during its first midweek matchup of the season.

MTSU built an early 4-0 lead after scoring one run in the second and three in the third.

Jeremiah Boyd led off the second with a single and went to second on a fielder's choice. After Gabe Jennings was hit by a pitch, Luke Vinson knocked in JT Mabry on a single for the game's first run.

A solo home run by DJ Wright got the Blue Raiders going in the bottom of the third. MTSU used a pair of doubles, took advantage of two SEMO errors and had a sacrifice fly to tack on two more runs, both unearned, to push its lead to 4-0.

Two more home runs helped widen MTSU's lead to 8-1 in the late innings.

Wright hit a two-run shot in the seventh and Boyd hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth. Vinson touched home on a wild pitch in the eighth inning as well.

The Redhawks three runs came via the long ball in the eighth and ninth innings.

Stauss homered off the batter's eye in center field for his sixth career round-tripper in the eighth and Cameron hit a two-run home run with one out in the ninth for the first homer of his SEMO career.

Freshmen right-handers Bryant Beranek and Justin Lee teamed up to allow just three runs on five hits.

Beranek (1-0) was credited with the win working five scoreless one-hit innings with two strikeouts and no walks allowed.

Lee claimed his first save after scattering four hits and allowing three runs in four frames.

Bryce Grossius (0-1) took the loss in his first start of the season. Grossius gave up one run on three hits in 1.1 innings.

MTSU outhit SEMO, 10-5, and had three of its starters get multiple hits. Boyd went 4-for-4 with two runs, a double, home run and one RBI.

Cameron finished at 2-for-4 with a home run, double, one run scored and two RBI to pave the way for SEMO.

SEMO returns to action when it travels to Abilene Christian for a four-game series this weekend. First pitch of the series is Friday at 4:05 p.m., CT.