CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Paytience Holman pitched a complete game and matched a season-high six strikeouts to lead Southeast Missouri (11-18, 6-3) to a 4-3 series clinching win over Tennessee State (15-14, 6-3) Sunday.
 
SEMO claimed its second-straight series win and took down TSU, which entered the weekend as co-leader in the Ohio Valley Conference.
 
Holman, who tossed her team-high third complete game of the year, started strong by retiring the first seven hitters she faced.
 
SEMO scored once in each of the first four innings and that is all the Redhawks would need to hang on for their one-run victory.
 
Abigail Rickermann led off the bottom of the first with a single and Paige Halliwill followed with a double. Aubrie Shore scored the game's first run on a sacrifice fly.
 
Kynzie Wrigley began SEMO's at-bat in the second with a home run to straightaway center extending the Redhawks lead to 2-0. For Wrigley, it was her first homer of the season.
 
After TSU pulled within a run in the third, Marissa Peek then launched a home run over the left field wall. The round-tripper was Peek's second of the series after she ended Saturday's doubleheader with a walk-off home run.
 
The Tigers again got within a run when they scored another tally in the top of the fourth inning, but SEMO answered.
 
This time, Halliwill knocked in Brittany Affolter on a two-out single to right and that run held up big in the end.
 
TSU narrowed SEMO's lead to 4-3 when it scored on a groundout in the top of the fifth inning.
 
Holman then kept the Tigers off the board for the final two innings sitting down the last six TSU hitters along the way.
 
Holman (7-6) allowed three runs on seven hits. Two of those runs were unearned.
 
Caitlyn Manus (8-6) suffered the loss. Manus struck out three, walked two and gave up four runs on nine hits.
 
Rickermann, Halliwill and Peek had two hits apiece to lead the Redhawks. Those three hitters combined to hit .600 (6-for-10) for the day.
 
Wrigley, Affolter and Tatum Gerwitz followed with one hit each.
 
SEMO, which won seven of its last 10 games, travels to Southern Indiana for a three-game series prior to the Easter holiday on Mar. 29-30.