MARION, Ill. – #4 Southeast Missouri Baseball (30-25) fell to #8 Little Rock (22-32) by a final score of 9-7 in the second round of the 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament on Wednesday afternoon.
The Redhawks conclude the 2025 season with a 30-25 overall record and four players on the Postseason All-OVC team.
The Trojans jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the game's first inning with an RBI ground out and two, two-run home runs off RHP
Nathan Mertens (7-3). Mertens pitched 1.0 innings, allowing six runs (five earned).
Catcher
Shea McGahan got the Redhawks on the board for the first time in the bottom of the third inning with a two-run home run to right center field. His third home run of the season scored
Andrew Ramirez after a leadoff hit-by-pitch to make it 5-2 Trojans after three innings.
LR would add a run in the fourth and the fifth, but the Redhawks would plate two more runs in the fifth inning. A leadoff single from Ramirez brought McGahan back to the plate, as he recorded an RBI triple for his third RBI of the ball game.
McGahan's hit would mark his third RBI of the game and brought
Carson Schrack to the plate. Schrack recorded an RBI groundout to make it 7-4 Trojans after five innings.
LR would score two more unearned runs in the top of the seventh inning to make it 9-4 Trojans after seven innings of play as the Redhawks failed to score in the bottom of the seventh.
RHP
Brian Strange kept the Trojans in check for 2.0 innings without surrendering a run and striking out three Trojans in the outing.
SEMO would battle back trailing by five runs. A three-run, eighth inning for the Redhawks after a leadoff single from
Gunnar Doyle and another single from
Bryce Cannon the next hitter.
A wild pitch moved both runners up 90-feet to second and third during the at-bat of
Cole Warehime. Warehime would double down the right field line to score both runners to make It 9-6 Trojans.
An RBI groundout from Ramirez after Warehime moved up 90-feet on fly ball from
Ty Stauss made it 9-7 Trojans heading to the ninth inning.
The Redhawks would get runners on first and second with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth inning, but the Trojans held on for the 9-7 victory.
