CAPAHA FIELD – Southeast Missouri Baseball (1-6) dropped both games on Saturday to St. Thomas (4-3) by a final score of 3-2 and 12-3, respectively, at Capaha Field. 
 
SEMO was outhit 22-7 by St. Thomas over the afternoon as the Tommies picked up their third and fourth wins of the season. 
 
Outfielder Keoni Coloma made his SEMO debut in game two, finishing with his first collegiate hit and RBI in the ball game. Coloma finished the game 2-for-3 with an RBI and a walk. 
 
RHP Payton Lawrence had a nice outing out of the bullpen for SEMO in the second game. Lawrence pitched 2.0 innings, and allowed no hits, no runs, and struck out three batters. Lawrence faced six hitters, and retired all six. 
 
Game 1
The Redhawks battled to the end in the first game on Saturday afternoon. Trailing 3-0 entering the final inning, the Redhawks hit two solo home runs in the inning to cut the Tommies' lead to just one. 
 
After a strikeout started the inning, Josh Cameron homered to right field off St. Thomas' Jake Mrosko. 
 
Two batters later, with two outs in the inning, short stop Ben Palmer homered to left field as the Redhawks trailed by just one. 
 
A ground ball out ended the shortened game in seven innings.
 
A defensive slugfest, the starting pitchers allowed just four runs between the two of them. SEMO's RHP Brian Strange (0-1) finished his outing pitching 5.0 innings, striking out three batters. He allowed just two runs on five hits. 
 
St. Thomas' Jacob Mrosko (1-0) dominated for six innings, allowing zero hits to Redhawk hitters. Michael Mugan broke up the no hitter in the sixth inning. Mrosko finished 7.0 innings allowing just two runs on three hits and struck out 12 batters. 
 
Game 2
The Redhawks got a good start from Tommy Windt in the second game of the day, keeping St. Thomas off the board for the first three innings. Windt surrendered just two hits through the first three innings, but a huge fourth inning for St. Thomas broke the game open for the Tommies. 
 
A leadoff single by Tommie right fielder Ben Vujovich to right field put a runner on early. An error allowed Max Nyrop to reach base. An RBI single by Ben Richartz opened the scoring for the Tommies and they never looked back. 
 
A five run fourth inning, followed by a four run fifth inning saw St. Thomas on their way to their second win of the day. 
 
The Redhawks opened the scoring in the contest, with an RBI base hit by second baseman Brooks Kettering. Keoni Coloma registered his first collegiate hit, advanced to second on a Ben Palmer groundout, and was in scoring position with Kettering coming to the plate. 
 
Kettering rifled a ball the opposite way that found the outfield grass to score Coloma from second base. 
 
Coloma continued his hot start to his season in the nine hole, in his second at-bat he registered an RBI single that scored Gavin Baldwin from second. After the ffith inning, SEMO trailed 9-2. 
 
The Tomies would plate three more runs in the contest, the Redhawks just one, and SEMO dropped the contest 12-3. 
 
Looking Ahead
SEMO Baseball will be back in action on Sunday, Feb. 25, for the series-finale against St. Thomas. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m., CT.