By TYLER HENRY
Salina Post contributor
The Southeast of Saline softball team continued their impressive run on Tuesday, steamrolling Sacred Heart in the first of four road doubleheaders to remain perfect on the year.
With colossal wins of 20-0 and 18-0, the Lady Trojans move to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in league play, matching pace with Beloit as one of just two remaining undefeated teams in the NCAA.
Southeast has now outscored their first eight opponents by an unheard-of 120 runs, winning seven of the eight by mercy rule.
SES wasted no time picking up right where they left off again in Salina, striking for 11 runs in the top of the first to take a massive lead on their league rivals.
From there, the Lady Trojans would add four more in the second and five in the third before the game was mercifully ended in yet another early shutout.
11 different players would grab a bat in this contest, with seven recording a hit, and six driving in at least one run, led by Brielle Ptacek, Carly Commerford, and Kimber Ogorzolka, who combined to go 5/6 and accounted for seven of Southeast’s ten runs driven in.
In the circle, Bryna Baird narrowly missed out on perfection, recording all nine outs including five Ks, and allowing just one runner to reach base on a lone hit in the 20-0 win.
While the run tallies were more spread out, game two saw more of the same both in ruthless scoring and flawless pitching.
The Lady Trojans scratched across a pair in the first, three in the second, two more in the third, six in the fourth, and five in the fifth to close out an 18-0 victory.
This time around it was Lexi Jacobson who stepped into the circle for SES and went to work with dominant stuff, striking out 11 batters and allowing just one hit in another shutout.
Offensively, both Ptacek and Ogorzolka put on encore performances, driving in seven of the 14 runs that would come from a Lady Trojan RBI on the day.
Of the twelve players to record at least one plate appearance, nine reached base safely as Southeast continues to flex it’s depth in big wins.
The Lady Trojans will be back in action for another doubleheader on Friday when SES makes the trip to Chapman to battle the Lady Irish.