Southeast Softball

Redhawks christen season with sweep of doubleheader (02/15/08)
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Southeast Missouri State softball team opened its season Thursday with an easy doubleheader sweep. Southeast routed host Jackson State 8-0 and 12-3. Both games went just five innings because of the eight-run rule. Elaine Fisher pitched a two-hit shutout in the opener. She struck out eight and did not issue a walk...

OVC honors power-hitting Summers (05/11/07)
Southeast Missouri State junior third baseman Michelle Summers earned first-team all-Ohio Valley Conference honors Thursday after setting the single-season school record for home runs. Summers smashed 14 home runs, nine in OVC play, breaking the mark she set last year. Summers also led the Redhawks in batting with a .333 average and was second in doubles with seven...

Redhawks win season finale (05/07/07)
The battle for the team's home run lead came down to the final game of the season, and junior Michelle Summers barely won the title. Summers hit a home run and drove in a pair to lead the Southeast Missouri State softball team to a 4-1 victory over Morehead State in the Redhawks' season finale...

Redhawks keep playoff hopes alive with OVC win (05/03/07)
Southeast Missouri State kept its slim hopes of reaching the Ohio Valley Conference softball tournament alive Wednesday with a 5-2 home win over Eastern Illinois. The Redhawks found themselves in ninth place in the 10-team league heading into Wednesday's game. Southeast improved to 9-15 in the OVC with the win and moved ahead of Eastern Illinois into eighth and two games behind sixth-place Tennessee-Martin in the win column. The top six teams qualify for the tournament...

Tennessee Tech rallies in 7th for 8-3 victory over Redhawks (04/30/07)
Two-time Ohio Valley Conference regular-season softball champion Tennessee Tech completed a series win over host Southeast Missouri State on Sunday by rallying for an 8-3 victory. The squads had split Saturday's doubleheader, with Tech (43-15, 19-4) capturing the opener to clinch its second straight OVC regular-season title...

Redhawks split softball doubleheader with Memphis (04/25/07)
Southeast Missouri State's softball team split a home doubleheader Tuesday with Memphis, winning the opener 4-3 before falling 10-1 in the nightcap. Megan McDonald and Michelle Summers had solo home runs in the win, and Stacia Dopudja and Lindsay Pickering added RBIs for the Redhawks...

Redhawks softball nips UTM (04/23/07)
MARTIN, Tenn. -- The Southeast Missouri State softball team slipped past host Tennessee-Martin 6-5 on Sunday to complete its first Ohio Valley Conference series victory in more than a month. Southeast posted its only other OVC series win March 17 and 18 when it took two of three from visiting Samford to begin league play...

Redhawks build confidence with sweep against Billikens (04/18/07)
Southeast Missouri State softball coach Lana Richmond hopes a pair of nonconference wins against visiting Saint Louis University on Tuesday will propel junior starting pitcher Elaine Fisher, who is ranked at the bottom of the Ohio Valley Conference in ERA...

Panthers sweep doubleheader with Redhawks (04/12/07)
Southeast Missouri State's softball team's struggles continued Wednesday as the Redhawks dropped a doubleheader at Ohio Valley Conference foe Eastern Illinois. Southeast fell 3-2 and 11-7 to the Panthers. Amber Peterson had three hits and Lindsay Pickering had two in the second game. In the opener, Southeast managed just four hits...

Jacksonville State sweeps Southeast (04/08/07)
Southeast Missouri State remained winless in 14 all-time softball meetings with Jacksonville State after an 11-3 Ohio Valley Conference loss Saturday at Jacksonville State. The Redhawks were swept in the three-game OVC series and fell to 4-8 in the conference and 10-20 overall. The Gamecocks are 8-5 in the OVC and 21-14 overall...

Redhawks softball drops pair to Jacksonville State (04/07/07)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader at Jacksonville State on Friday. The Redhawks dropped the first game 6-3 and the second game 9-4. They have lost five of their last six. Southeast jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning of game one, but surrendered five runs in the fourth and couldn't recover...

Redhawks softball splits with Evansville (03/29/07)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team split a nonconference doubleheader with host Evansville on Wednesday, winning the opener 5-3 and losing the nightcap 7-6. Southeast is 9-15 and Evansville is 19-10. Freshman Stacia Dopudja was the star of the victory for the Redhawks (9-15)...

Redhawks even OVC record (03/26/07)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team won a pitcher's duel Sunday to salvage the finale of a three-game Ohio Valley Conference series. Elaine Fisher fired a three-hit shutout and the Redhawks pushed across a run in the seventh inning to beat host Tennessee State 1-0...

Southeast suffers rare losses to Tennessee State (03/25/07)
To say that Southeast Missouri State had dominated the all-time softball series with Tennessee State would not even do the situation justice. The Redhawks entered this season having won 36 of the 38 meetings between the programs. But TSU enjoyed rare success against Southeast on Saturday, as the host Tigers swept an Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader, 4-3 and 2-0...

Season-opening tourney canceled (02/16/07)
Southeast Missouri State's softball season-opening tournament has been canceled. The Redhawks were set to open the season Saturday at the Tennessee-Martin Hospitality Classic, but inclement weather has forced the tournament to be shelved. It is unlikely the tournament will be rescheduled...

Redhawks picked for fourth in OVC (01/25/07)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team was picked for fourth in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll, which was voted on by the league's coaches and released Wednesday by the conference. Tennessee Tech, the defending OVC champions for both the regular-season and tournament, was picked by eight of the league's 10 head coaches to repeat. The Eagles topped the poll, followed by Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State...

Redhawks sign pair of players (11/17/06)
The Southeast softball team landed two players during the recent early signing period, including the sister of former Southeast baseball star and current minor league player Zach Borowiak. Allie Borowiak, from Nashville, Ill., was an all-conference and all-region utility player last year as a freshman at John A. Logan College, where she batted .350...