Southeast Baseball

The Southeast Missouri State baseball team (21-20) returned to above .500 on the season after a 8-5 win over Southern Illinois on Tuesday, April 23, at Capaha Field. The Redhawks have now played SIU twice, Murray State twice and Missouri once on the road, and have won all five games. For them, playing their rivals means something different, as shortstop Ben Palmer alluded to when he said, “there’s a different kind of energy when you get to the ball field.”...

Capaha Field is the jewel of Cape Girardeau sports. Nestled in the middle of Capaha field, it is home to the oldest amateur baseball team in America, an NCAA Division I baseball team, an exciting collegiate summer baseball team, numerous high school baseball games, and most recently, the Babe Ruth World Series. This old but enduring ballpark is active from mid-February through August...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks baseball team hit the road for a three-game set against Tennessee Tech, a battle of two of the top teams in the OVC. Ultimately, a 4-3 loss on Sunday saw the Redhawks drop the series after the two clubs split the opening two games of the series...

Andy Sawyers won his 200th career victory as Southeast Missouri State head baseball coach as the Redhawks (19-18) paced the Racers of Murray State 15-8 in Murray, Ky. Caleb Corbin led the Redhawks with three hits, two home runs, and four RBIs. The Redhawks have hit 61 home runs as a team, which is good for second in the Ohio Valley Conference...

On the day the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks celebrated Masters Sunday at Capaha Field, the Redhawks baseball team channeled their inner Tiger Woods with pure domination while wearing Sunday red. The Redhawks cruised to a 12-2 win over the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles on Sunday to take the rubber match of the three-game series...

Entering the weekend, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks were 5-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference. Squaring off with a fellow OVC contender in the Little Rock Trojans, the Redhawks dropped the series but salvaged the weekend with a big 16-3 win on Sunday...

A two-home run day by Ty Stauss led the way to a 13-3 win in the rubber match of the three-game series between the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks and the SIUE Cougars. With a sour taste in their mouth after blowing an eight-run lead the night before, the Redhawks bats came out with a purpose...

After finishing the early non-conference schedule with a less-than-desirable record, Southeast baseball (12-13, 3-0) made a loud statement over the weekend in its conference-opening series. The Redhawks went on the road to Charleston, Illinois, for a series at Eastern Illinois (5-16, 0-3) and smothered the Panthers in their house, scoring a whopping 56 runs in the series...

At SEMO athletics, it seems like a tradition to struggle against non-conference opponents and enter the Ohio Valley Conference slate feeling confident in the team's chances of turning the season around and making a run towards the championship. The softball team went 9-12 against non-conference opponents before dominating the OVC on their way to the regular season title. ...

Southeast Missouri State (7-12) opened the weekend series against Western Kentucky with an 8-3 loss to the Hilltoppers (13-6) on Friday, March 15, at Capaha Field. The Redhawks have now lost four straight games and six of its last seven games. Prior to the slump, SEMO won five straight games, including on the road against Missouri, to even its record to 6-6...

West Virginia, mountain momma. Take SEMO home, country road. The Southeast Missouri State baseball team travels to Marshall for a weekend series at 5 p.m., Friday, 2 p.m., Saturday, and noon Sunday, March 8-10. It will be the first-ever matchup between the Redhawks (6-8) and Thundering Herd (4-8), a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Redhawks will have the honor of being the third visiting team to play on the newly built Jack Cook Field in Huntington, West Virginia...

Tuesday’s midweek contest between the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders and the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks felt eerily similar to Sunday’s game for Redhawks fans. Like in Sunday’s 10-9 loss to Toledo, one bad inning burned the Redhawks in an 8-2 loss to the Blue Raiders...

Southeast Missouri State shortstop Ben Palmer has been on quite the offensive start three weeks into the 2024 season. The senior has not only reached base safely in every game this season but also tied his career high in home runs when he hit his fifth bomb during Saturday’s doubleheader in which SEMO swept by a combined score of 25-3...

After a rocky beginning to the 2024 season, SEMO baseball got back on track last week with a 4-1 showing. Perhaps the highlight of the week came during the Redhawks’ 8-3 road win at the University of Missouri. With the Redhawks rallying in the fifth, Bryce Cannon launched a grand slam to right field that stunned the Tiger faithful...

If you like offense, then hopefully you were at Capaha Field on Sunday afternoon. After the Redhawks won the first three games of the series, a Sunday slugfest that saw 19 runs and 27 hits swung in favor of the Toledo Rockets as they downed the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 10-9...

Southeast Missouri State outfielder Josh Cameron started Friday’s game against Toledo by robbing a potential home run and ended it with a homer of his own. On the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the ninth inning, the SEMO senior slammed a walk-off blast to lift the Redhawks over the Rockets 6-5 on March 1, at Capaha Field...

Entering Taylor Stadium four games below even on the season, expectations seemed to be tempered for Southeast’s Tuesday matchup at Missouri – until they weren’t. With the Tigers supposedly running a scheduled “bullpen day,” the Redhawks took stark advantage and jumped out to an early lead...

Southeast Missouri State outfielder Michael Mugan hit his fourth home run of the season to lead the Redhawks to a series-salvaging 10-3 win over St. Thomas on Sunday, Feb. 25, at Capaha Field. "Kind of a frustrating weekend for us on a lot of parts," Mugan said. "We were struggling to let the ball get to us coming off that weekend at Dallas Baptist. We were out in front all weekend and we made some adjustments as a team where we weren't gonna get beat deep and just kind of let it come to me."...

Technology has continued to make its way into the game of baseball. It is now making its way to the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks baseball program as a donation of the Gameday Signals electronic pitch-calling system has changed things for the Redhawks...

It was no coincidence that the first home game of the 2024 baseball season at Southeast Missouri State University was a mid-60 degree day. The sun was out with no sign of winter weather to be seen or felt, and just enough wind for the Redhawks to take advantage of, as they rallied in the sixth inning to beat Murray State 8-7 on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at Capaha Field...

The ball was flying out of Capaha Field on Wednesday afternoon when the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks squared off with the Murray State Racers. A four-home run inning in the bottom of the sixth led the Redhawks to an 8-7 win over the Racers. The Racers started the scoring in the top of the second as Carson Garner blasted a solo...

There are few times in which a team can look the part while losing, but Southeast Missouri State baseball may have accomplished that feat over the weekend. Traveling to Dallas to face off against the Dallas Baptist Patriots, one of the country’s top mid-major teams, the Redhawks took a trio of tight losses in which they competed every time...

After spending a year in Cape Girardeau, the one thing that has pleasantly surprised me about this place is how many athletes currently competing at Southeast Missouri State who have aspirations for a career in journalism. Chandler Davis plays on the SEMO women’s basketball team and recently covered the football team as a reporter for the student newspaper, the Southeast Arrow. ...

Jackson native among 2023 SEMO Hall of Fame class Southeast Missouri State announced its 2023 Hall of Fame Class on Wednesday, Dec. 13. Among the six-member class is Jackson native Blake Smith, who currently runs the Cape Girardeau based athletic training center, Prep Athletics...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to camp and fish with an “elite tent camper,” who also serves as the head football coach at Southeast Missouri State (Tom Matukewicz)?

What was made official on Thursday, Dec. 7, began taking place in July, a month for Southeast Missouri State alum Noah Niznik where one path to the dream closed and another opened. After the Redhawks were knocked out of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament this past May, the focus for Niznik was set on getting selected in the MLB Draft, which took place during the All-Star Break in the middle of July...

Jackson High School alum Cameron Marchi highlights a class of eight signees joining the Southeast Missouri State baseball team for the 2024-25 season, announced by head Coach Andy Sawyers on Monday, Nov. 27. Marchi spent last season at St. Charles Community College, where he threw 30.2 innings with 38 strikeouts, 17 walks, and a 1.50 WHIP...

At any given Cape Catfish game, you can find the architect of success for the franchise standing atop the hill glancing over a baseball diamond that he has carried in his heart since he was a boy.

The Cape Catfish begin a stretch of games on Friday in which the team will play four consecutive contests at Capaha Field, and seven of the next eight at home. There are a multitude of good things about this scheduling quirk, none more significant than the Catfish pitchers have proven to be dominant this season, but particularly so at home.

The dog days of summer are here for the Cape Catfish, as the team will play seven games over the next week, starting with a rare 2:05 p.m. game on Wednesday at Capaha Field against O’Fallon (21-20 overall, 6-8 second-half). With so many games crammed into the final weeks of the season (compounded by makeup games), the squad is going to need as much quality pitching as possible down the stretch.

Jacksonville State announced on Saturday the hiring of former Missouri and Southeast Missouri State baseball coach Steve Bieser. Bieser is the program’s third head baseball coach since 1970 and the first to lead the Gamecocks into a new era as Conference USA members. Jacksonville State previously played in the Ohio Valley Conference when Bieser coached the Redhawks...

The Cape Catfish have annihilated the remainder of the Prospect League this summer offensively.

There rarely is a shortage of negativity in the daily news cycles, and intercollegiate athletics is never immune to such.

The SEMO baseball season came to an end on Wednesday after a 7-6 loss to Eastern Illinois in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament at Mountain Dew Park in Marion, IL. This was the eleventh straight loss for the defending OVC Champion Redhawks who have not won a game since April 30...

Southeast Missouri State senior Noah Niznik watched from the dugout the twilight of his playing days at Capaha Field on Saturday as the Redhawks fall to a sweeping defeat, 4-2, at the hands of Eastern Illinois. After five years on the turf mound in his home away from home, the St. ...

The losing skid the Redhawks have been on continued on Friday as they were defeated 7-2 by the Eastern Illinois Panthers at Capaha Field. This is the ninth loss in a row for SEMO who has not won a game since April 30 against Lindenwood. Southeast was held scoreless until the seventh inning when the two runs were scored to bring the game to within one. SEMO head coach Andy Sawyers said the team is in a rut right now and they are not playing their best baseball...

Southeast Missouri State (26-27, 14-8 OVC) entered its final series of the season needing to sweep Eastern Illinois (31-18, 11-11 OVC) in order to at least win a share of the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championship. The Redhawks missed their chance on Thursday when the Panthers knocked in 15 hits to win 10-2 at Capaha Field. The Redhawks have now lost eight games in a row...

Southeast Missouri State baseball (26-23) traveled to Manhattan, Kan. to take on the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big XII Conference. While the Redhawks showed some grit in the first two games of the series, losing 2-1 on Friday night and 12-5 on Saturday, the series ended in a sweep as the Wildcats took a seven-inning, 10-0 victory on Sunday afternoon...

The SEMO baseball and softball seasons are coming down to the end with baseball having three series left and softball having just three games left. Both teams currently sit atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings and hope to hang on to that spot as the OVC Tournaments approach...

With a rare win over their long-standing rivals (Southern Illinois) and a dominating sweep over their newly minted in-state rivals (Lindenwood), the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks built up plenty of momentum over the past week. Unfortunately for SEMO, momentum can dissipate at any moment, and in this case, a 5-0 shutout loss to Murray State on Tuesday at Capaha Field...