Although the Great American Conference home run leaders managed just three roundtrippers on the weekend, Southeastern’s baseball team still captured the league series with Southern Nazarene last weekend at Mike Metheny Field.
Southeastern won the first and third games of the threegame set to improve their conference record to 4-2 following their first six league games at home. The Savage Storm hit the road for the first time in GAC action on Friday at Northwestern.
Coach Alan Trayler’s squad rode stellar pitching to the opening 7-2 victory with Daniel Collins, Cody Pfeffer and Carson Abbott combining to allow just two runs on six hits and struck out six over the nine frames.
Gage Dollins tied a Southeastern school record with a pair of triples in the contest as well as a single for a total of three hits. Ryan Kirk and Alex Showalter contributed two hits apiece. Wesley Mitchell drove in three with one hit as Chase Keeton knocked in a couple as well.
Southeastern was outhit 1811 in the middle game of the series but wasted big offensive performances from Mitchell, Kirk and Austin Thorp. Mitchell had three hits with Kirk and Thorp posting two apiece. Kirk also drove in four runs.
The final game of the series proved to be the closest with the Savage Storm hanging on for the victory, thanks in large part to a six-run sixth inning.
Keeton got things off and running with a leadoff home run in the inning. Showalter singled and Kirk stayed hot with a double down the leftfield line that plated a pair. Mitchell chipped in a runscoring single while Colton Sagely chipped in a two-run single which put Southeastern ahead to stay.
Brock Zimmer, Carson Abbott, Brayden Phelps, Gabe Massey and Jordan Brown combined for the pitching win.
Sagely and Showalter each tallied two hits and drove in three.