CAPAHA FIELD – Southeast Missouri Baseball (8-7) picked up the series finale win versus Indiana State (7-9) on Sunday afternoon by a final score of 8-6 from Capaha Field. LHP
Haden Dow (3-1) picked up his third victory of the season to split the series with the Sycamores, 2-2.
Dow pitched 6.0 innings, allowed just four runs on four hits while striking out six Sycamores in the Sunday start.
The Redhawks offense had a big day recording 11 hits on the day led by right fielder
Cole Warehime. Warehime finished the day going 3-4 at the dish with his third home run of the season, four RBIs, and two runs scored.
Left fielder
Ty Stauss finished his day with three hits as well. Stauss went 3-5 at the plate with an RBI and came around to score.
SEMO jumped out to a 5-0 lead after the second inning with a five-run inning in the second. Warehime drove in the first run of the ball game with an RBI single to left field to plate
Bryce Cannon.
Stauss came to the plate, batting sixth, after Warehime and roped a double to left field that allowed Warehime to come all the way around to score from first base. After two straight outs, back-to-back walks loaded the bases for the Redhawks.
A wild pitch allowed Stauss to score from third before a big two-out, two-RBI single from designated hitter
Demitri Shakotko. Shakotko rolled a single back up the middle to make it 5-0 Redhawks after the second.
ISU would respond in the third inning with a two-run frame after a leadoff hit-by-pitch and a double down the right field line by Carter Beck made it 5-1 Redhawks.
A throwing error allowed an unearned run to come across to make it 5-2 Redhawks after the third inning. An RBI single to left field in the fourth inning added another run to the board for ISU to make it 5-3 SEMO after four.
The Redhawks added two huge runs in the fifth inning off one swing from
Cole Warehime. Warehime blasted his third homer of the season to left field to make it 7-3 Redhawks.
ISU would score a single run in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings to make it 7-6 heading to the bottom of the eighth inning.
The Redhawks would add a crucial insurance run in the eighth inning off an error from Indiana State's second baseman, Jackson Taylor. The ball bounced off his glove to allow pinch-runner
Caleb Champion to score from second.
LHP
Jackson Kranawetter picked up his second save of the season, in his second-straight appearance, to hold off Indiana State to pick up the 8-6 victory.