CAPAHA FIELD – Southeast Missouri Baseball (8-12) picked up a game two victory on Saturday afternoon against Western Kentucky (13-7) by a final score of 8-7 in Cape Girardeau. 
 
SEMO fell behind 6-0 early in the ball game, but the offense found a spark to the tune of 11 hits led by outfielder Michael Mugan, short stop Ben Palmer, second baseman Brooks Kettering and third baseman Caleb Corbin who all finished with a pair of hits. 
 
Palmer, Mugan, and Corbin all finished the day with two RBIs to pick up the eighth victory of the season. 
 
Tommy Windt (2-2) had a nice outing out of the bullpen and picked up the win in Saturday's contest. Windt pitched 2.0 innings, allowed no hits and no runs, punching out two Hilltoppers over 10 faced. 
 
WKU jumped out to a two-run lead in the opening frame after back-to-back singles with one out in the inning by Camden Ross and Blake Cavill. Right fielder Ethan Lizama hit a ground-rule-double that scored Cavill. 
 
A sacrifice fly by Cristian Garcia lined out to left field to score Ross as the Hilltoppers got out to an early advantage. 
 
A four-run third inning for WKU against LHP Haden Dow put the Hilltoppers up 6-0 before the Redhawks found any scoring. Dow finished the day with 3.0 innings pitched, allowed six runs on seven hits. 
 
The Redhawks got the offense going in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, scoring a combined seven-of-their-eight runs over the middle innings. 
 
Corbin's RBIs got SEMO on the board first with his RBI double to right center field to plate designated hitter Gavin Baldwin and left fielder Cole Warehime from second and first, respectively. 
 
Ben Palmer recorded his RBIs two batters later following a single from Brooks Kettering. Palmer's line drive got down in left field and got away from WKU's left fielder to plate both Corbin and Kettering to cut WKU's lead to just two. 
 
First baseman Bryce Cannon crushed a home run to right center field on the first pitch of the fifth inning off WKU's RHP Elliot Rossell and the Redhawks trailed by just a run. For Cannon, his blast was the fifth home run of his season. 
 
The sixth inning gave SEMO the lead after a leadoff walk to Corbin, followed by Kettering's second hit of the ball game. A perfectly executed sacrifice bunt by Ben Palmer moved the runners up 90-feet. 
 
Center fielder Michael Mugan crushed a triple to the right-center gap that score both runs. The return throw from the outfield got away from the third baseman and into the SEMO dugout, allowing Mugan to score on the play. 
 
After the sixth inning, SEMO led 8-6. 
 
WKU plated one run in the final three innings, a solo shot from Brady Browning off RHP Collin Wilma. 
 
Wilma was dominant over the final three innings, however, and picked up his second save of the season. His final stat line was 3.0 innings pitched, with four strikeouts and no walks. 
 
The series-finale between SEMO and WKU will take place tomorrow afternoon on St. Patrick's Day. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m., CT. from Capaha Field.