CHARLESTON, Ill. – Southeast Missouri Baseball (11-13, 2-0 OVC) picked up its third straight victory on Saturday afternoon to the tune of a 21-4 drubbing of Eastern Illinois (5-15, 0-2 OVC) headlined by first baseman Cole Warehime. 
 
Warehime, coming into the contest with no home runs in his career, crushed two grand slams in the same game and had an RBI single, tying SEMO's all-time single-game RBI record of nine (Dan Shy, 1989). He finished 5-for-6 at the plate with two bombs. 
 
The Redhawks have now scored 41 runs in the first two OVC games of the season after scoring 20 on Friday afternoon. The offensive pounded out 20 hits as five different Redhawks had multi-hit days. Right fielder Josh Cameron finished 5-for-6 at the plate with three RBI singles in the contest and three runs scored. 
 
LHP Haden Dow made the start for the Redhawks as the pitching staff held EIU in check for most of the day. The lefty pitched 4.0 innings, allowing just two earned runs on three hits. He punched out six Panthers in the outing. RHP Tommy Windt (3-2) earned the victory with a near-flawless 3.0 innings. He allowed just one run on three hits and struck out two. 
 
SEMO wasted no time picking up where they left off from a day ago as a three-run first inning gave the Redhawks an early lead. Second baseman Brooks Kettering, making his 24^th consecutive start of the season, hit his first collegiate home run in his first at-bat. 
 
The blast hit off the outfield wall and Kettering came around to score the inside-the-park home run for the first run of the game. 
 
Ben Palmer singled in the next at-bat, and two batters later, left fielder Ty Stauss blasted a two-run home run off EIU's Bryce Riggs to give SEMO a 3-0 lead. 
 
The Panthers scored a run in the home half with an RBI groundout from Kolten Poorman as the Redhawks led 3-1 after the first inning. 
 
SEMO would score 11 runs over the third and fourth innings beginning with a six-run third inning. 
 
A leadoff error by EIU allowed Kettering to reach safely. Ben Palmer followed with a single and another error one batter later allowed Mugan to reach, and the bases were loaded with no outs. 
 
A wild pitch allowed Kettering to come into score from third base, and a walk to Stauss loaded the bases back up for Josh Cameron. 

Cameron singled to the outfield to score Palmer from third base and the Redhawks led 5-2 with two outs in the inning. 

First baseman Cole Warehime's first career home run came one batter later with the bases loaded as his grand slam made it 9-2 SEMO. 
 
The fourth inning was a continuation of the third as the Redhawks plated five runs on five hits in the inning, headlined by three home runs including Nolan Ackerman's second home run of the season. Ackerman blasted a three-run shot scoring Warehime and Cameron. 
 
Michael Mugan and Caleb Corbin each had solo blasts in the inning. For Mugan, the homer was his eighth of the season (team-high) and Corbin's marked his first home run in a Redhawks uniform. 
 
Leading 14-3 in the fifth inning, Josh Cameron hit an RBI single through the right side to extend SEMO's lead to 12. 
 
Warehime hit his second career home run, and his second grand slam of the game in the seventh inning after three straight Redhawks reached base. Warehime's second blast of the afternoon made the score 19-4 heading to the final two innings. 
 
SEMO would plate two more runs in the eighth inning to cap off the scoring as Josh Cameron recorded his third and final RBI single along with Warehime driving in his ninth RBI to secure the 21-4 victory. 
 
RHP Anthony Klein pitched the final inning for SEMO in his first appearance of 2024 with a four-batter inning, including a strikeout looking. He allowed just one hit and surrendered no walks.
 
Game three of the series will take place tomorrow, Sunday, March 24, at 1 p.m. from Coaches Stadium in Charleston, Ill.