Southeast Baseball

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...

Southern Illinois University announced on Wednesday the university and baseball coach Lance Rhodes have come to terms on a five-year contract extension. Rhodes — a Sikeston native who played collegiately at Southeast Missouri State — had his contract extended through 2027 and will receive a base pay of $170,000 per year...

The above slogan isn’t just an appealing marketing slogan put out there by the Prospect League, there is a whole lot of validity behind it.

There was an early indication that Andrew Keck may evolve into a nice baseball player at Southeast Missouri State. After all, he did go 1-for-4 with a run scored and a couple of RBI in his collegiate debut back in 2019. However, his journey to today wasn’t paved entirely.

Cape Catfish pitcher Hunter Ralls has been looking for a “break,” as in his breaking ball being more effective against Prospect League hitters, and he just may have found it.

In the doubleheader split with Quincy on Tuesday at Capaha Field, Cape Catfish player Danny Sperling contributed four hits, two runs scored, as well as a pair of RBIs. However, his contribution defensively may have been just as important. The Southeast Missouri State senior-to-be opened has played five games for the Catfish, opening at second base, but on Tuesday, moved over to fill in at first base.

Baseball is a team game, so Cape Catfish player Ty Stauss isn’t going to blame two recent losses to Burlington on any one player specifically. However, the truth is, Stauss has made a quick and significant impact for the Catfish since making his debut with the team on Friday.

It is a pretty simple formula that Southeast Missouri State Athletic Director Brady Barke has for finding Redhawk head coaches.

Southeast Missouri State fell 18-6 to Oregon in the NCAA Regional in Louisville on Saturday, which ended the Redhawks' tremendous 2022 season.

Southeast Missouri State put a touch of worry into No. 12-ranked Louisville on Friday in the opening round of the NCAA Baseball Regional in Louisville. However, in the end, the Cardinal pitching was too much to overcome, and the hosts won 7-2.

A memo to high school baseball players throughout Missouri: particularly in Southeast Missouri, you are being watched. And not just for your services to be utilized by the next level years from now, but sooner than you realize. The Cape Catfish open their third season of play at Capaha Field on Friday, as they host Springfield at 6:35 p.m., and they’ll have many familiar faces on the field.

Of his 15 at-bats during the recent Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, Southeast Missouri State junior catcher Andrew Keck only had four hits, for a .267 average.

A year ago, the members of the Southeast Missouri State baseball program viewed competing in the NCAA Regional as “an experience.” This year, many of those same players are taking a different approach to compete against the best in college baseball.

The list of obstacles that were placed in front of the Southeast Missouri State baseball squad over the past three days during the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament was a looooong one.

There is certainly not going to be anything easy for the Southeast Missouri State baseball club to achieve today, as it battles Ohio Valley Conference regular-season champion, Belmont, for the OVC Tournament championship (12 p.m., ESPN+).

The fact remains, that as great as the 2021 baseball season was for Southeast Missouri State, and it was great, the 2022 team won more games overall than last year’s squad.

Southeast Missouri State stumbled into the upcoming Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament in Lexington, Ky. with a pair of losses in its three-game road series at Eastern Illinois over the weekend.

If the Southeast Missouri State baseball team clinches its second straight Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championship this week, it will need a superb performance by both SIU Edwardsville in its three-game series against Belmont, and the same from junior outfielder Brett Graber.

The three-game series that Southeast Missouri State baseball just concluded against Ohio Valley Conference foe UT Martin was bittersweet.

Andy Sawyers has been on a baseball diamond since he was barely taller than a Louisville Slugger bat, so he knows enough that a team is only as good as its pitching.

This spring has proven to be a mixed bag for Southeast Missouri State junior pitcher Hunter Ralls.

Southeast Missouri State baseball coach Andy Sawyers has been in the coaching business longer than Redhawk left fielder Jevon Mason has been alive. So, Sawyers knows that changing a player’s hitting mechanics is doable but altering someone’s personality isn’t.

The fact that Southeast Missouri State senior pitcher Austin Williams got roughed up in Sunday’s 15-3 loss at Oklahoma State can be dismissed as an anomaly.

The non-conference hits (literally and figuratively) keep coming at the Southeast Missouri State baseball squad, and the Redhawks aren’t shying away from any team this spring.

As yet another memorable baseball season unfolds this spring for Southeast Missouri State, the Redhawks’ power-stroking offense will get a lot of adulation tossed its way, and with very good reason.

After beating Southeast Missouri State 3-2 in a recent college baseball game at Capaha Field, Southern Illinois got past the Redhawks once again by a single run, as the Salukis topped SEMO 7-6 in 11 innings in Carbondale on Tuesday.

There is a heavy weight carried on your shoulders when your last name is Brune and you compete athletically at Southeast Missouri State.

Southeast Missouri State freshmen pitchers Alex Esker and Ethan Osborne are learning that college baseball can be a series of peaks (hopefully a lot of them) and valleys (it happens to every athlete), particularly of late.

Southeast Missouri State senior Tyler Wilber narrowly missed hitting for the cycle when he went 4-for-6 with three runs scored, a double, a home run, and three RBI to lead the Redhawks to a 13-3 thumping of SEC member Ole Miss (21-15) on Tuesday in Oxford, Miss.

The Southeast Missouri State baseball squad are now two games out of first place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings after dropping two of three games over the weekend at Tennessee Tech. On Saturday, Redhawk junior Andrew Keck went 2-for-4 with a home run, double, one run scored and two RBI, but SEMO (24-10, 8-4 OVC) fell 7-4...

There is little margin for error when you are playing a 24-win baseball team and Southeast Missouri State found that out on Tuesday, as it fell to rival Southern Illinois 3-2 at Capaha Field.

Southeast Missouri State freshman Marysa Flieg won the women's javelin title and the Redhawk women's 4x800 meter relay team set a new program record at the Tennessee Relays Thursday through Saturday.

Southeast Missouri State track and field athlete Marysa Flieg was recently named as the Ohio Valley Conference Female Freshman of the Week for the third-straight week. Flieg led the Redhawks in the women's javelin at the recent Lake Stride Joey Haines Invitational...