Baseball Splits Doubleheader at SEMO

Saturday, March 1

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

1 PM ET

Purdue Fort Wayne

1-8

SEMO

4-5

Purdue Ft. Wayne

Southeast Missouri

Nick Hockemeyer

Photo by: Mikayla Hogan

3/1/2025 8:58:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Purdue Fort Wayne baseball team recorded 26 total hits in a split of a doubleheader at SEMO on Saturday (March 1).

Game One – Mastodons 9, SEMO 5
Purdue Fort Wayne recorded 14 hits in the game one win. Augusto Schroeder had three hits with Jackson Micheels and Camden Karczewski each having two. Micheels drove in two runs, as did Schroeder.

The Mastodons never trailed in the game, leading 6-0 after four and a half innings. Rex Stills (1-1) got the win for the 'Dons, allowing one run in 4.0 innings. Trent Murphy gave up just two hits and one run in 3.1 innings. Sean Kasper threw 1.2 of scoreless ball to get the save.

Brian Strange (2-1) got the loss for SEMO.

Game Two – SEMO 6, Mastodons 5
Micheels hit a two-run home run in the eighth to give the Mastodons a 4-3 lead. It came after Justin Osterhouse used a double to knock in Nick Hockemeyer who started the inning with a double. SEMO, however, responded with three runs of their own in the bottom of the inning.

Down 6-4, entering the ninth, it became a 6-5 game after Grant Sawa hit a solo shot with one out. He also had a double in the game. Hockemeyer walked and Karczewski earned his third hit of the day with a single to put two on. But a flyout an strikeout ended the game.

The Mastodons had 12 hits in the game with all nine starters recording a knock.

Zane Danielson had a strong outing, going 6.0 innings and allowing one earned run on five hits. He got a no decision.

Carson Caudill got the loss. He is 0-1. Alex Hayes (1-0) got the win for SEMO. Cade Perkins picked up the save.

The two clubs will play the fourth and final game of the series on Sunday (March 2).

SEMO is now 5-5. The Mastodons are 1-9.

~ Feel The Rumble ~