CHARLESTON, Ill. – Southeast Missouri Baseball (12-13, 3-0 OVC) opened the 2024 Ohio Valley Conference season with a three-game sweep of Eastern Illinois (5-16, 0-3 OVC) with a 15-4 win on Sunday afternoon at Coaches Stadium.
The Redhawks ended the series with 56-runs, scoring the final 15 on Sunday afternoon with 17 hits led by third baseman
Caleb Corbin. Corbin finished the day going 4-for-5 at the plate with a double, triple, and an RBI. He came around to score four times in the contest.
First baseman
Bryce Cannon, second baseman
Brooks Kettering, left fielder
Ty Stauss, and designated hitter
Keoni Coloma all had multi-RBI days led by Cannon with three. Five different Redhawks had multiple hits.
SEMO continued its offensive weekend in the first inning as Kettering led off the game with a single. A sacrifice bunt by
Ben Palmer and a single by
Michael Mugan put runners on first and third.
Stauss doubled home both the runners to put SEMO up 2-0. Corbin registered his first triple in a Redhawks uniform to score Stauss, and the RBI made it 3-0 SEMO after the first.
RHP
Sam Heyman (2-0) pitched 5.0 innings and picked up his second win of the season. Heyman did not allow a run in the contest and allowed just three hits.
Bryce Cannon led off the second inning with a home run to give SEMO a 4-0 lead. The blast was his sixth of the season.
Heyman continued to mow down Panthers as the Redhawks continued to score runs throughout the game.
A four run third inning, the Redhawks led off the inning reaching base with back-to-back errors by the Panthers' defense and put Corbin and Cameron on first and second, respectively.
DH
Keoni Coloma pushed across two RBIs with a single to right field, and an error allowed runners to move up and the Redhawks led 6-0 in the middle of the inning.
Back-to-back RBI singles by Kettering and Palmer made it 8-0 as the game turned to the fourth inning.
Three more runs in the fourth inning and two more runs in the fifth inning was all it took as the Redhawks hung on for the 15-4 series sweeping win.
Looking Ahead
SEMO Baseball will be back in action on Tuesday, March 26, against Missouri State with first pitch slated for 3 p.m., CT. in Springfield, Mo.
