Reigning champion Southeast baseball, softball squads release 2025 schedules

Southeast's Sydney Dennis stands in during a Sunday, March 24, 2024 game between the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks and the Tennessee State Tigers at Southeast Softball Complex in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Southeast defeated Tennessee State, 4-3.

Tony Capobianco ~ tcapobianco@semoball.com

The Southeast Missouri baseball and softball teams finalized and released their 2025 spring season schedules Tuesday, with the two combining for 43 total home games this season.

Southeast baseball leads the pack with 30 games scheduled to be played at Capaha Field, while Redhawk softball’s 13 games hosted in 2025 makes up just over 30 percent of the schedule.

Baseball’s 55 percent hosting clip makes it a mainstay at its own ballpark this season, which is a hallmark sign of a program on the rise as it brings seven out-of-conference teams to Cape Girardeau this year.

Baseball opens the season on Feb. 14 against the Memphis Tigers of the American Athletic Conference, playing a weekend series in Memphis, Tennessee, before the Redhawks’ home opener on Feb. 21.

The Redhawk baseball team will host Northern Illinois on Feb. 21 and 22, with a doubleheader on the 22nd to conclude the home-opening series against the Mid-American Conference Huskies.

Meanwhile, the softball squad begins its season with the Cardinal Clash starting Feb. 13 in Troy, Alabama, hosted by the Sun Belt Conference Troy Trojans with additional games against Western Kentucky and Alabama State.

The Redhawks’ softball home opener will have to wait until Mar. 8 when the Redhawks host Tennessee-Martin in the Ohio Valley Conference opener at Southeast Softball Complex.

After playing nine games against Power-5 competition in the 2024 season, Southeast softball will face no such team this spring, with the Tigers of Missouri no longer on the schedule following the Redhawks’ 1-0 victory in Columbia last April.

The Redhawk baseball team’s lone Power-5 game will come against Missouri, taking on the Tigers on Mar. 4 in Columbia. Southeast defeated Missouri in baseball as well last season, winning 8-3 in a lightning-shortened slugfest.

As for conference series, the Southeast baseball teams welcomes Western Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Tennessee Tech and Little Rock in that order this season.

The softball team will host Tennessee-Martin, SIU-Edwardsville, Morehead State and Southern Indiana in Ohio Valley Conference play, while Murray State comes to town on Apr. 30 for a rivalry clash.

Both the Southeast baseball and softball teams claimed Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championships last spring, clinching double berths into the NCAA Tournament, where the Redhawk baseball team eliminated No. 5 Arkansas in the Fayetteville Regional.