CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri Baseball (6-8) dropped Tuesday's midweek matchup with Middle Tennessee (6-6) by a final score of 8-2 at Capaha Field. 
 
Designated hitter Ty Stauss led the Redhawks offense at the plate going 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored. As a team, SEMO registered eight hits but was outhit by the Blue Raiders by a 13-8 mark. 
 
LHP Logan Katen had a very solid outing out of the bullpen for the Redhawks. The lefty pitched the final 3.0 innings of the ball game and surrendered just two hits. He allowed no runs and only one walk over 11 batters faced. 
 
The Blue Raiders got the scoring going in their first at-bat of the contest after a leadoff single by third baseman Greg Jennings and a sacrifice bunt by Trace Phillips got Jennings into scoring position. 
 
MTSU's catcher Briggs Ruther lined a single into left field to score Jennings to give MTSU a 1-0 lead. 
 
A leadoff hit batsmen in the second inning and single to left center put Blue Raiders on the corners with just one out. MTSU would rattle home five runs in the inning beginning with an RBI ground out by Clay Badylak. 
 
An RBI single by Phillips pushed across another run for MTSU. Following a walk that would load the bases, left fielder Jackson Galloway blew the game open with a bases clearing triple to give MTSU a 6-0 lead after their second at-bat. 
 
The Redhawks would get their only two runs of the ball game with one swing of the bat as catcher Shea McGahan hit a two-run home run to left field off MTSU's starting pitcher Bryant Beranek (1-2). 
 
Just one more MTSU run in their sixth inning would be all the offense in the game as SEMO struggled to piece their offense together on Tuesday night. 
 
Looking Ahead
SEMO Baseball will hit the road for a three-game set in Huntington, W. Va., when they take on Marshall over the weekend. First pitch is slated for 5 p.m., CT.