CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri Baseball (13-13, 4-0 OVC) won the series opener with SIUE (8-18, 2-2 OVC) on Thursday night to the tune of a 15-4 victory at Capaha Field. 
 
The Redhawks picked up where they left off in Sunday's win with the same score line as the offense pounded out 15 hits and scored 15 runs led by freshman second baseman, Brooks Kettering. 
 
Kettering led the Redhawks with a 2-for-3 day at the plate with four RBIs and his first over-the-fence home run in a SEMO uniform in the fourth inning. 

Five different Redhawks had multi-RBI games as the offense has now plated 71 runs in the last four games. 
 
RHP Brian Strange (2-2) picked up his second win of the season as he started out the first 5.0 innings with a one-hitter as only SIUE's Ryan Niedzwiedz recorded a hit off the Westfield, Mass.-native. 
 
Leading 15-0, the Cougars plated three runs after loading the bases and Strange's night was done. His final stat line was 6.0 innings pitched, allowing three runs on three hits. He struck out one batter in the outing. 
 
An RBI sacrifice fly by center fielder Michael Mugan got the Redhawks on the board for the first time in the third inning. The Redhawks would then explode for a four-run fourth inning, thanks in part to Kettering's home run. 
 
First baseman Bryce Cannon got the big inning going with an RBI double to left center off SIUE starting pitcher, Tyler DeLong (1-2). Another double down the left field line, this one by catcher Shea McGahan would bring in Cannon and the Redhawks led 3-0. 
 
McGahan on second base, Kettering smashed his first home run over the right-field fence to put SEMO up 5-0 after the fourth inning. 
 
Josh Cameron, who came into the night with five RBIs in his last four games, drove in one-of-his-two RBIs in the game with an RBI double in the fifth. Gavin Baldwin would score Cameron from second for his first of two RBIs and the Redhawks led 7-0 after the fifth. 
 
A huge, eight run sixth inning, would blow the game wide open as the Redhawks recorded an RBI single, sacrifice fly, an RBI single, an RBI Double, an RBI single, and Ben Palmer's eight home run to make the game 15-0. 
 
The Cougars would score four runs in the seventh inning, but LHP Logan Katen would pick up the three-inning save. Katen, who came into relieve Strange with the bases loaded in the seventh, allowed just one unearned run and struck out four batters in the outing.

For Katen, the save is the first of the season and his four strikeouts ties his season high. 
 
Game two of the series is slated for Friday, March 29, at 6 p.m. from Capaha Field.