Southeast Baseball

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...

After months of anticipation, Southeast Missouri State and Lindenwood will finally meet on the diamond on Friday, April 28, at 6 p.m. at Capaha Field. The weekend series is not only the first time these two teams meet as in-state Ohio Valley Conference rivals, but Friday also marks the first-ever game between these two schools. Lindenwood enters this series as a first-timer in Division I, while SEMO is the two-time defending OVC Tournament champion...

Two trends were colliding at Capaha Field. Southeast Missouri State has not defeated Southern Illinois since 2019. The Redhawks have also struggled during mid-week games throughout the season. The Redhawks put both trends to bed by beating their rivals 6-2 on Tuesday, snapping a six-game losing streak to the Salukis...

Southeast Missouri State tennis (17-2) is heading back to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament for the second consecutive year, defeating second-seeded SIU-Edwardsville in a 4-2 victory in Paducah, Ken. With the win, the Redhawks tied their program record for most wins in a season at 17. ...

Southeast Missouri State (21-17) used a dominant three-game sweep against Tennessee Tech (10-24) to improve to 10-2 in Ohio Valley Conference play. The Redhawks won 10-1 on Friday and 5-4 on Saturday to secure the series before taking an 8-6 win at Capaha Field on Sunday afternoon to sweep the visiting Golden Eagles...

The Redhawks took the rubber match of a three-game series against Ohio Valley Conference newcomer Southern Indiana by a 14-2 margin on Saturday afternoon. After opening the series with a 13-4 win on Thursday and then dropping the second game, 9-6, on Friday, the Redhawks kept their record north of .500 with a rout win against the Screaming Eagles (9-22)...

Much of the focus on Tuesday, April 4 was on Busch Stadium in St. Louis, where former Southeast Missouri State Redhawk was making his MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves. Dodd earned his first big league win, allowing 1 run over five innings while also picking up 3 strikeouts...

They say patience is a virtue. Southeast Missouri State junior outfielder Josh Cameron learned that the hard way while sitting out last season after transferring from Butler County Community College. But the patience and discipline he learned while sitting out are now translating to success on the diamond...

ST. LOUIS — Every player’s career is a story in the grand old book of baseball, with tales stretching from the 19th century to the 21st. On Tuesday, Southeast Missouri State alum Dylan Dodd added his chapter to that book. He toed the rubber on a Major League mound 98 miles from his college town and 179 miles from his hometown of Bismarck, Illinois...

The Redhawks made it seven consecutive Ohio Valley Conference victories on Sunday after taking a 10-0 victory in five innings against Tennessee Tech. After 11-0 and 9-1 wins on Saturday, Southeast Missouri State put an exclamation point on the weekend series with a five-run fifth inning to claim a mercy-rule win...

As Spring Training comes to a close, this is the time of the year when dreams are about to be made for players who entered camp with long shots but high hopes. Spring Training is the greatest preseason in sports. One of the main reasons why is this is the sport where an unknown can earn his way into the big leagues with a productive month...

NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — The Atlanta Braves will open the season with two rookie left-handers in their rotation while giving right-hander Kyle Wright more time to prepare for his first start. Wright was told Sunday he would start the season on the 15-day injured list. He was the only 20-game winner in the majors last season but had a slow start this spring after getting a cortisone shot in January to address a shoulder issue...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawk teams had a busy Sunday, with diamond sports combining for three wins while the track and field team had a few standouts in its final day at Mississippi State's Bulldog Relays. Redhawk track and field roundup The Southeast Missouri State track and field team competed in the Bulldog Relays this past weekend, with three athletes taking gold medals on Saturday at Mississippi State...

The sixth inning was the difference in the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks’ 12-2 loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks on Tuesday in Fayetteville. While SEMO lost 12-2 due to the mercy rule, Redhawks coach Andy Sawyers was proud of the way his team looked against the Razorbacks, the #5 team in the country...

Joey Lucchesi was the last Southeast Missouri State baseball player to play in the big leagues. His last season was in 2016, a year in which the Redhawks won the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship, just before Andy Sawyers began his coaching tenure in SEMO...

Southeast Missouri State third baseman Chance Resetich has as many hits as games started (19) this season. On a long Sunday afternoon, he made his 19th hit count by driving in the winning run to complete the series sweep against Western Illinois at Capaha Field...

A big day from Gunnar Doyle led the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks to a 10-3 win over the Western Illinois Leathernecks on Friday at Capaha Park. With the Redhawks leading 1-0 in the bottom of the 6th Doyle came through with a 2-run single to extend the lead to 3-0...

Southeast Missouri State dropped the second of a two-game, home-and-home midweek series with Missouri State 7-3 on Wednesday at Capaha Field. Junior infielder Lincoln Andrews got the Redhawks going in the first with a single to right field, bringing in Chance Resetich for his 16th RBI of the season. Head coach Andy Sawyers said Andrews has been steady this season and is pleased with how he plays...

Southeast Missouri State senior pitcher Noah Niznik lived up to the role of ace and threw seven shutout innings with nine strikeouts, leading the Redhawks to an 8-0 win over Butler on Friday at Capaha Field. “I'm really just staying focused out there,” Niznik said. ...

After two seasons of playing behind Andrew Keck and Wade Stauss, Redhawks junior Ty Stauss now finds himself with the starting catcher job for the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks baseball team. Stauss said he’s enjoying the responsibility that comes with having the catcher job...

An interesting stat has emerged after the first three weeks of the young college baseball season. When first baseman Lincoln Andrews drives in a run, the Redhawks win. The junior drove in a total of four runs during the Redhawks' series win over Milwaukee at Capaha Field, their first of the season...

Carlos Aranda made an impressive Capaha debut on Wednesday by hitting his first career grand slam in his first home game as a Redhawk. “I thank God for the opportunity to be a Redhawk and have fun with the boys,” Aranda said. The senior designated hitter was the lone bright spot in an otherwise disastrous 14-8 home-opening loss to Evansville. Aranda’s slam put the Redhawks within two runs, making it a 7-5 contest in the bottom of the third inning...

While Southeast Missouri State (1-2) opened up its season with an 11-3 victory at Central Arkansas (2-1) on Friday afternoon, the Redhawks slipped over the weekend to inevitably drop the series with following 3-0 and 13-4 losses. Lincoln Andrews finished with four hits over three games. He now sits as the team’s leader in batting average with a .333 average, while Josh Cameron and Brett Garber both notched three hits across the series...