Game 49
Missouri State (19-28) at Southeast Missouri (25-23)
 
Game Information
Date: Tuesday, May 7
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Venue: Capaha Field
Series: MSU leads 61-31
 
Head Coaches: SEMO: Andy Sawyers (206-193, 108-81 OVC, Eighth Season); MSU: Keith Guttin (1,392-923, 522-345 MVC, 42^nd Season)
 
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Redhawks Host Missouri State in Final Midweek of Season
Southeast Missouri Baseball (25-23, 13-8 OVC) will host in-state foe, Missouri State (19-28, 8-13 MVC), on Tuesday, May 7 from Capaha Field for the final midweek contest of the season. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. in Cape Girardeau. 
 
Series History
Tuesday's contest will mark the second time this season that SEMO and MSU will meet on the diamond. Earlier this season, MSU took a midweek contest by a final score of 10-3 in Springfield, Mo. The game will be the 93rd meeting all-time between the two schools as MSU holds a 61-31 record in the matchup. 
 
Last Time Out
SEMO Baseball completed its second Ohio Valley Conference sweep over the weekend, taking all three games from Lindenwood beginning with a 13-3 drubbing on Friday afternoon. LHP Haden Dow had a career-outing, pitching 8.0 innings allowing just three runs on seven hits. The 8.0 innings pitched was a career-high for Dow as he struck out six Lions in the contest. 
 
SEMO had a big day from center fielder Michael Mugan who finished Friday night with a 3-for-4 performance at the plate with three RBIs. Mugan was one-of-four Redhawks with a mult-RBI night. Ben Palmer, Ty Stauss, and Josh Cameron were the other three as SEMO recorded 13 runs on 12 hits. Second baseman Brooks Kettering started a trend of three-straight, one-run innings to start Friday's contest. Kettering led off the game with his fourth home run of the season and it was all Redhawks from that point on. 
 
RHP Sam Heyman picked up his fourth win of the season in Saturday's 4-3 victory. Saturday's contest was halted in the top of the 9th inning, with two outs, due to lightning in the St. Charles area.
 
The game resumed on Sunday afternoon, at 12 p.m., CT., as the Redhawks' all-time saves leader, Kyle Miller, picked up his fifth save of the season to secure the victory. 
Heyman pitched 5.2 innings, allowed no earned runs (3 runs scored), and struck out three. 
 
The Redhawks won the game while only registering two hits, both by Ty Stauss, as errors led to the Lions demise as the Redhawks held on for the 4-3 victory. 
 
Sunday's scheduled game was all Redhawks as SEMO dominated from the first pitch and won the game, 8-2, to complete the second-straight sweep of Lindenwood. 
 
RHP Brian Strange had a nice day on the mound, pitching 4.2 innings of scoreless baseball. He allowed just five hits and struck out a pair of Lions in the outing. 
 
The Redhawks pounded out 13 hits, led by outfielders Mugan & Cameron who each had three hits on the day. 
 
Every Day
Center fielder Michael Mugan and short stop Ben Palmer are the only Redhawks who have started and played all 48 games entering Tuesday's game. The duo are hitting .335 and .287, respectively. Mugan leads the team in hits while Palmer leads the team in home runs. In the field, Mugan is fielding his position at a .986 mark, as Palmer is fielding .933 at short. 
 
Over .300
Five Redhawks are currently hitting above .300 on the season. Catcher Shea McGahan, infielders Cole Warehime and Caleb Corbin, and outfielders Michael Mugan and Ty Stauss are all over the .300-mark through 48 games. Corbin leads the team with a .346 batting average, 11 points higher than Stauss and Mugan (.335). 
 
The Weekend
SEMO's weekend rotation of LHP Haden Dow, RHP Sam Heyman, and RHP Brian Strange had their best weekend of the season at Lindenwood. Combined, the trio only allowed three earned runs over the weekend while recording 11 strikeouts. Dow (52), and Strange (43) lead the team in strikeouts. 
 
New RBI Leader
Left fielder Ty Stauss, after a five RBI weekend, leads the Redhawks with 43 RBIs on the season. The senior from WIldwood, Mo., has made 43 starts on the season and currently has a .335 batting average. Since the start of OVC play on March 22, Stauss has 16 games with at least one RBI and 10 of those have been multi-RBI days. 
 
Triples
Third baseman Caleb Corbin recorded his sixth triple of the season in Friday's 13-3 win over Lindenwood. The Iowa native is first in the Ohio Valley Conference and ranks fifth in the nation in triples. Ethan Conrad of Marist University leads the country with 13. 
 
Appearances
RHP Kyle Miller made his 78th appearance as a Redhawk on Friday night as he made his fifth save of the season. Miller, the all-time saves leader, is nearing the all-time appearances record of 80. 
 
Standings
SEMO enters the week with a 13-8 record in Ohio Valley Conference play after sweeping Lindenwood. After the sweep, the Redhawks move into a first-place tie with Little Rock. SEMO is a game ahead of Morehead State and Tennessee Tech who are each 12-9 in league play. 
 
About Missouri State
Missouri State comes into the weekend contest with a 19-28 overall record and a 8-13 record in Missouri Valley Conference play. The Bears are currently in eighth place in their conference, a game behind former OVC-member Belmont. Over the weekend, MSU dropped two-out-of-three against Murray State in Springfield, Mo. Nick Rodriguez leads MSU with a .326 batting average and is second on the team in hits (58). Outfielder Zack Stewart provides the power in the MSU lineup as he leads the team in slugging-percentage (.661), RBIs (47), triples (2), and home runs (19).
 
Looking Ahead
SEMO Baseball will head to Macomb, Ill. for the second-to-last Ohio Valley Conference regular season series on Friday, May 10, to take on Western Illinois.