WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball played a pair of close and fun to watch games on Saturday against Southeastern but fell short in both games – dropping the day's slugfest opener 24-21 before also falling in the series finale 9-7. With winds howling out to center field, both offenses took advantage of the day and tormented the pitchers from nearly start to finish.
 
On Saturday, there was a span of eight consecutive top and bottom half innings where teams scored runs. Starting in the top of the fourth inning of game one, both sides plated runs in every inning through the conclusion of the game in the ninth and then continued the scoring into the series finale where the streak was finally halted in the bottom of the third inning when SWOSU was held scoreless.
 
SWOSU's 24-21 loss to Southeastern did break records. The two teams' 45 combined runs and 44 combined hits both set new GAC records for runs scored and hits in a contest.
 
The Bulldogs dropped the series 2-1 to the Savage Storm and remain tied for the No. 8 spot in the Great American Conference standings with three weekends left to go in the regular season. SWOSU will take a break from league play this Tuesday when they welcome USAO to Weatherford in a non-conference contest set to start at 3pm.
 
GAME ONE – SE 24, SWOSU 21
 
Errors haunted SWOSU in the slugfest that was game one. The defense committed five errors that resulted in 10 unearned runs.
 
Every pitcher that made an appearance, on both teams, allowed at least three runs.
 
Taylan Mullins-Ohm finished 3-5 with three home runs, seven RBI, and four runs scored. JC Reed led the team with four hits, finishing 4-6. Every member of the starting lineup had at least one hit.
 
13 of SWOSU's 21 hits went for extra bases. Enzo Bonventre also hit a ball out of the park, while Alex Rice collected a rare inside the park home run.
 
The game lasted four hours and one minute.
 
 
GAME TWO – SE 9, SWOSU 7 (5 inn.)
 
Because of the long game one, game two was forced to end early due to darkness. After SWOSU answered a pair of Southeastern runs in the top of the first with four of their own in the home half, the Savage Storm pushed the margin back out with a six-run second inning that had SWOSU playing from behind the rest of the way.
 
Trailing 8-4, SWOSU got a two-RBI single from Bonventre in the bottom of the second to cut into the deficit but went quietly in the third and fourth innings as the sun continued to set.
 
Back-to-back singles in the fifth to start the inning had SWOSU in good shape, but a double play ball killed the momentum and Southeastern claimed the victory after umpires called the game.
 
The first four names in the lineup all finished 2-3: Ramon Vingochea, Miguel Soto, Cade Hamilton, and Enzo Bonventre.