Southeast Missouri State roundup: Redhawks split softball doubleheader

The Southeast Missouri State softball team split a nonconference doubleheader at Middle Tennessee State on Thursday.

Southeast posted its fourth straight win in the 3-2 opener then lost the nightcap 7-3. The Redhawks are 23-25, while the Raiders are 17-29.

Freshman Alora Marble continued her impressive pitching in the first game, working all seven innings to improve to 12-6 with her seventh consecutive victory. She worked out of a second-and-third, one-out seventh-inning jam to end the contest.

Southeast had seven hits, four coming in a three-run third inning that put the Redhawks ahead 3-0. Senior Carmen Fowler, who had two hits, delivered a two-run single and junior Renee Kertz added an RBI double.

That pair also drove in Southeast's second-game runs. Fowler had a two-run single in the third inning, and the Redhawks went up 3-2 on a fifth-inning RBI single by Kertz.

MTSU answered with two runs in the bottom of the fifth to go ahead 4-3 for its first lead of the day. The Raiders broke open things with a three-run sixth inning.

Junior Evan Sallis and sophomore Taylor Cowan both had two of Southeast's eight hits. Freshman Shea Cothren was the losing hurler.

Southeast resumes Ohio Valley Conference play Saturday at Morehead State. The Redhawks are fifth in the 11-team league with a 14-10 record.

Track

The Southeast track and field program swept the OVC outdoor field athlete of the week honors for the second straight week.

Sophomore Jill Schnurbusch won the women's award, while senior Brandon Colbert was recognized on the men's side.

Schnurbusch, a native of Cape Girardeau who attended Notre Dame Regional High School, set the school pole vault record Saturday. She finished fifth at the Mississippi Open with a height of 12 feet, 2 1/2 inches, which is the best in the OVC this season.

Colbert won the hammer throw at the Mississippi Open with a toss of 204 feet. It was his third hammer title in five meets this outdoor season. He claimed his second straight OVC weekly honor and third this outdoor season.

-- From staff reports