Southeast Missouri State track and field team brings home titles from Vanderbilt

The Southeast Missouri State track and field team had three athletes claim first-place finishes to lead the Redhawks at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invite, which concluded Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee.

Southeast throwers Kayla Gutierrez and Shon Kyle won the hammer throw and shot put, respectively, on Friday while Blake Smith won the 100-meter dash on Saturday.

Gutierrez, a junior, won the hammer throw with a throw of 178 feet, 9 1/2 inches and Kyle, a senior, won the shot put with a distance of 55-4 3/4, which is also the top mark in the Ohio Valley Conference this season.

Smith, a senior from Jackson, led a trio of Redhawks in the 100-meter and won with a time of 10.51 seconds. Senior Blake Carter was second in the event with a 10.79 while sophomore and Central graduate Chris Martin was third in 10.80. Carter was also second in the long jump with a distance of 23-3 1/4.

Sophomore Abi Sowash was third in the high jump (5-5 1/4).

Central graduate and senior Mary Dohogne placed second in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:07.82.

Sophomore Marc Maton was second in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 8:31.06.

Kyle took second in the discus with a throw of 167-7 and junior Jason Walker was third with a distance of 158-1 1/2.

Sophomore Duncan Ross, a Notre Dame graduate, took second in the pole vault with a height of 14-1/4.

Senior Mike Peters was third in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.01.

Southeast hosts the Joey Haines Invitational next weekend at the Abe Stuber Track and Field Complex. Competition starts with the hammer throw at 4 p.m. on Friday and the remainder of the events, which are free to the public to attend, begin at noon on Saturday.

Softball swept by SIUE

The Southeast Missouri State softball team was swept by defending Ohio Valley Conference tournament champion SIU Edwardsville in a doubleheader Saturday at the Southeast Softball Complex.

The Redhawks dropped Game 1 12-3 and were shut out in Game 2 7-0.

SIUE jumped out to a big lead in Game 1 by scoring seven runs in the top of the second inning. Brittany Toney led off the inning with a homer for the Cougars and lead-off batter Haley Chambers added a grand slam later in the inning to chase Southeast starter Aubrey Denno.

Denno recorded just three outs in the contest. She allowed five hits and five earned runs.

Keaira Schilling relieved Denno and pitched the final five innings, allowing seven earned runs on 11 hits and two walks.

The Cougars added a run in the third, two in the fifth and two in the sixth. Chambers finished 2 for 5 with a homer, a double and six RBIs.

Southeast scored a run in the bottom of the third on a sacrifice fly by Savannah Carpenter and added its final two runs in the fifth on a home run by Kayla Fortner.

The Redhawks got their only hit of Game 2 when India Davis broke up the no-hitter of SIUE pitcher Baylee Douglass with a bunt single with one out in the sixth.

Douglass struck out seven batters and walked one while lowering her ERA to 1.71.

The Cougars scored the only runs she would need with two in the top of the third. They added one more in the sixth and four in the seventh.

SIUE shortstop Alex McDavid was 3 for 4 with two RBIs while Chambers and Rebecca Gray where both 2 for 4 with an RBI.

Madeline Krumrey pitched the complete game for Southeast, allowing six earned runs on 12 hits.

The Redhawks dropped to 5-16 overall and 2-6 in the OVC with the loss while SIUE improved to 26-6 overall and 8-1 in the OVC. The Cougars are second in the conference standings behind Jacksonville State, which is 6-0 in OVC play and 22-8 overall.

The teams will meet again at 1 p.m. today at the Southeast Softball Complex.