2023 Frost Classic

Tournament Information
Dates: Friday-Sunday, February 24-26, 2023
Participating Teams: Southeast Missouri (2-3), Chattanooga (3-2), UNLV (6-5), Western Michigan (3-2), Akron (3-2)
Tournament Schedule: 
Friday - vs. UNLV, 12:30 p.m., CT
Friday - at Chattanooga, 5:30 p.m., CT
Saturday - vs. Western Michigan, 10 a.m., CT
Saturday - vs. Akron, 3 p.m., CT
Sunday - vs. UNLV, 10 a.m., CT
Location: Chattanooga, Tenn.
Facility: Warner Park
Series Records: 1-2 vs. Chattanooga; 2-0 vs. Akron; 2-0 vs. Western Michigan; First Meeting vs. UNLV

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Game Notes: Southeast Missouri
Frost Classic Tournament Website

Redhawks Travel to Frost Classic
Southeast Missouri (2-3) is on of five teams participating in the Frost Classic hosted by Chattanooga this weekend. The Redhawks will play five games in three days at the event.

Follow the Redhawks
Live stats for all of Southeast Missouri's games will be available online at GoMocs.com. Twitter updates will be provided @SEMOsoftball. There will be no video for any of SEMO's contests.

Frost Classic Schedule
Southeast Missouri will face UNLV (12:30 p.m.) and host Chattanooga (5:30 p.m.) Friday. On Saturday, the Redhawks square off against both Western Michigan (10 a.m.) and Akron (3 p.m.). SEMO then concludes the tournament with another matchup against UNLV (10 a.m.) Sunday.

Series Histories
The Redhawks are a combined 5-2 against the teams competing in this year's Frost Classic. Southeast Missouri is 1-2 against Chattanooga, 2-0 vs. Akron and 2-0 vs. Western Michigan. This year marks the first meeting with UNLV.

First Wins for the Redhawks
Southeast Missouri claimed its first wins of the 2023 campaign with a doubleheader sweep of Saint Louis (Feb. 19). SEMO came from behind to beat the Billikens, 10-9, in 10 innings during game one, and won the nightcap by a score of 7-4.

300th Win for Redburn
Ninth-year Southeast Missouri Head Coach Mark Redburn earned his 300th career NCAA Division I win when the Redhawks beat Saint Louis, 10-9 (10 innings), on Feb. 19. Redburn is 301-349 in 14 years as an NCAA Division I head coach between Evansville (five years) and SEMO.

Last Frost Classic Appearance
Southeast Missouri last competed at the Frost Classic during the 2018 season. SEMO finished second in the event with a 5-1 record behind Eastern Illinois (5-0) that year. Two of those victories were shutouts (vs. Evansville; vs. IUPUI). 

Wild 10th Inning
With the international tiebreaker rule in effect, Southeast Missouri and Saint Louis combined to score 11 runs in the 10th inning that decided game one of their doubleheader on Feb. 19. SEMO scored six runs in the top of the 10th before SLU responded with five in the bottom half of the inning. The Redhawks came away with a 10-9 victory for its first win of 2023. 

Bats Get Going
The Redhawks pounded out a season-high 19 hits in their game one win over Saint Louis (Feb. 19). Six starters had multiple hits. Paige Halliwill, Kat Sackett and Sydney Dennis paved the way with three apiece, while Alyson Tucker, Kynzie Wrigley and Aubrie Shore followed close behind with two each. The 19 hits are SEMO's most in a game since it also had 19 vs. Purdue Fort Wayne on Feb. 14, 2020.

Tucker Hitting .500
Alyson Tucker is hitting .500 as one of three players in the Ohio Valley Conference hitting .500 or better through a minimum of five games this season. Tucker hit safely in three of her first five starts and had multiple hits in all three of those contests. She posted a season-best three hits and two doubles at Louisiana Tech (Feb. 12). UT Martin's Kaci Fuller leads the OVC with a .632 average and Tennessee State's Laila Armstrong is hitting .524 ahead of Tucker.    

Wrigley Approaching 100 Games Played
Infielder Kynzie Wrigley is closing in on 100 games played in her career. Wrigley is three away from that mark. She played in 97 games and made 88 starts as a Redhawk thus far. Wrigley has started all five games at third base this season. 

Countdown to 100 Strikeouts
Left-hander Marisa Davis enters the weekend 19 strikeouts away from reaching 100 in her career. Davis had 89 strikeouts in 127.2 innings over 56 appearances and 16 starts in her career. She has started two of her three appearances this season. 

Getting on Base
Paige Halliwill, Alyson Tucker and Tatum Gerwitz have reached base in all five of Southeast Missouri's games this season. The trio has also accounted for 13 hits and five runs scored this young season.

Halliwill Homers
Paige Halliwill hit a three-run home run for Southeast Missouri's first round-tripper of the season in game two of a doubleheader at Saint Louis (Feb. 19). For Halliwill, it was the ninth home run of her SEMO career.

Nice Pitching
Delaney Kell and Paytience Holman each turned in strong pitching performances to help lead Southeast Missouri to its doubleheader sweep of Saint Louis (Feb. 19). Kell, who put together the best outing of her career to date, threw seven-straight scoreless innings of relief to set up SEMO's game one victory. Meanwhile, Holman, who was credited with a save in game one after Kell exited with one out in the bottom of the 10th, then tossed a complete game with eight strikeouts in the nightcap. Holman is 1-1 in three appearances and two starts.

Double Time
Eight of the Redhawks nine extra base hits in their doubleheader at Saint Louis (Feb. 19) were doubles. Aubrie Shore, Kat Sackett and Marissa Peek each had two apiece, while Jillian Anderson and Paige Halliwill added one. Southeast Missouri is tied for third in the Ohio Valley Conference with 10 doubles this season.

Top Run Scorer
Left fielder Jillian Anderson hit .500 (3-for-6) with five runs scored, a double and two RBI to lead Southeast Missouri to its doubleheader sweep of Saint Louis (Feb. 19). Anderson enters the Frost Classic with a team-high five runs this year.

Team 47
The 2023 season is Southeast Missouri's 47th in program history. SEMO's softball program has an all-time record of 1,182-867. The Redhawks are 822-744-2 since joining the NCAA Division I ranks in 1992.

Redhawks Tabbed Second in OVC Preseason Poll
Southeast Missouri was picked second in the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Softball Poll voted on by the league's head coaches and communications directors. SEMO was selected second behind UT Martin, which tallied 123 points and 11 of the possible 18 first-place votes. The Redhawks accumulated 119 points and seven first-place nods in the voting. Tennessee Tech (91 pts.), Eastern Illinois (86 pts.) and Southern Indiana (70 pts.) rounded out the top-five, while SIU Edwardsville (61 pts.), Lindenwood (45 pts.), Tennessee State (30 pts.) and Morehead State (23 pts.) followed.

Softball Success
Since 2018, Southeast Missouri has won a total of 153 games for an average of 30 per year during that span. The Redhawks notched a program record 46 wins in 2019 and won 30 games in back-to-back seasons (2021, 2022) for the second time in Mark Redburn's tenure. In terms of winning percentage, softball was the winningest program in SEMO Athletics with a .569 clip over the last seven years. In that time, the Redhawks accumulated 192 victories and boasted a .601 winning percentage with 89 wins in OVC play.