Southeast softball team splits second conference doubleheader

The Southeast Missouri State softball team earned its second Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader split of the season on Saturday.

The Redhawks dropped Game 1 to Tennessee Tech 3-0 in Cookeville, Tennessee, but rebounded to win Game 2 6-4.

Southeast (5-12, 2-2 in the OVC) recorded just five hits in Game 1 as TTU's Danielle Liberatore pitched a complete-game shutout. She struck out seven and walked two.

Keaira Schilling went the distance for the Redhawks, allowing three earned runs on just four hits. She struck out one and walked none.

TTU (16-11, 3-1) took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third on a home run by lead-off batter Angi Nakamoto, and Olivia Bennett's homer added two more runs in the bottom of the sixth.

The Redhawks jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning of Game 2 and made it 4-0 in the top of the fourth.

TTU cut it to 4-3 with a run in the bottom of the fifth, but Southeast replied with two more in the top of the sixth and the Golden Eagles could only muster one more run in the bottom of the sixth.

Madeline Krumey started and pitched five innings for the Redhawks. She gave up four runs on eight hits while striking out four and walking none.

Schilling pitched the final two innings for the save. She allowed just one hit and no runs.

Clean-up batter Kayla Fortner went 4 for 4 in Game 2 with a double, a run scored and four RBIs. She is 9 for 12 in conference games this season. Second baseman Meaghan Touchette drove in the other two Southeast runs.

The victory snapped a seven-game losing streak against TTU.

Southeast will play a doubleheader on the road against Jacksonville State at noon today.

Track & field

The Southeast track & field team began its outdoor season at the three-day John Mitchell Alabama Relays in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, over the weekend.

Taylor Coffelt and Duncan Ross were the Redhawks' lone event winners. Coffelt finished first in the javelin with a throw of 137 feet, 2 inches and Ross won pole vault section B with a height of 15-7.

Kayla Gutierrez placed second in the hammer throw with a distance of 181-7 and Sarah Hall was eighth in the javelin with 114-8.

Shon Kyle finished fourth in the shot put at 55-1 on the men's side.

The 1600-meter medley relay team of Jordan Barber, Jarred Pasley, Brandon Chunn and Kameron Long took third in 3 minutes, 31.27 seconds.

Pasley was seventh in the 400-meter dash in 48.61 and Mike Peters was seventh in 400-meter hurdles in 53.72.

Ayonna Cartwright finished fifth in the 100-meter dash 12.08 while Chris Martin took fifth in long jump at 7.04 meters and sixth in the 100-meter dash in 10.99.

Mary Dohogne's time of 11:09.61 was good for sixth in the 3000-meter steeplechase.

The Redhawks return to action at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invite in Nashville, Tennessee, next Friday and Saturday.