2021 Southeast Missouri Postseason Guide
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2021 Southeast Missouri Postseason Guide 2021 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BASEBALL #4 Southeast Missouri (30-20) at #12/1 Ole Miss (41-19) Follow the Redhawks NCAA Oxford Regional ............. June 4, 2021 Head Coaches ........Andy Sawyers (205-143 Radio .........................................Real Rock 99.3 FM First Pitch ..................................................7 p.m., CT overall; 118-114 at SEMO; 65-55 OVC). (Erik Sean) Location ..............................................Oxford, Miss. Mike Bianco (908-530-1 overall; 808-459-1 at Ole Miss). Video .......ESPN3 (Tom Hart, Kyle Peterson) Facility ......Oxford-University Stadium (10,323) Live Stats ................................................NCAA.com Series ..................................... Ole Miss leads, 16-2 Strategic Communications Twitter .........................................@SEMObaseball Last Meeting .....................Ole Miss 6, SEMO 4 Jeff Honza, Assistant Director of Athletics (Mar. 9, 2016 | Oxford, Miss.) Office Phone ................................(573) 651-2933 Mobile................................................(618) 528-1145 Schedule #12/1 41-19 #2 37-19 #3 30-22 #4 30-20 February (2-5) 19 at South Alabama W, 4-2 20 at South Alabama L, 5-6 ESPN+ 21 at South Alabama W, 8-6 (10) SEC Network+ 25 at #2 Arkansas L, 5-6 (10) SEC Network+ 26 at #2 Arkansas L, 3-7 Southeast Missouri Probable Starting Pitchers SEC Network+ 27 at #2 Arkansas L, 3-9 # Name Ht. Wt. Cl. Hometown (Previous School) SEC Network+ 28 at #2 Arkansas L, 4-11 (5) Game 1 25 Dylan Dodd LHP 6-3 210 Sr. Danville, Ill. (Kankakee CC) March (9-7, 5-4 OVC) Game 2 22 Bryce Grossius RHP 6-1 210 So. St. Louis, Mo. (St. Mary’s H.S.) 5 Illinois State W, 4-3 (10) Game 3 - TBA - - - - - 6 Illinois State (DH) W, 5-1; L, 1-13 7 Illinois State W, 8-1 12 at SIU Edwardsville* ESPN+ L, 3-6 Redhawks Head to NCAA Regional Sawyers in the NCAA Tournament 13 at SIU Edwardsville (DH)* ESPN+ W, 6-3 (10); W, 6-4 Fourth-seeded Southeast Missouri (30-20) Andy Sawyers makes his first NCAA 16 at Saint Louis ESPN+ W, 8-6 19 Austin Peay* W, 6-3 will open play at the NCAA Regional against Tournament appearance as Southeast 20 Austin Peay (DH)* ESPN+ W, 6-5 (11); L, 11-12 (12) No. 12 national seed and top-seeded Ole Miss Missouri’s head coach in 2021. Sawyers is in his 23 #22 Southern Illinois L, 4-21 (41-19) Friday. First pitch is set for 7 p.m., CT at fifth year at SEMO and becomes the third head 26 at Eastern Illinois* ESPN+ W, 3-2 27 at Eastern Illinois (DH)* ESPN+ L, 2-9; L, 4-8 Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field. coach in program history to lead the Redhawks 30 Missouri State L, 8-9 (10) to an NCAA Tournament. Mark Hogan (1998, April (9-3, 7-3 OVC) Follow the Redhawks 2002) and Steve Bieser (2016), currently head 2 Jacksonville State* W, 6-5 Fans can listen to all of Southeast Missouri’s coach at Missouri, are the others. Sawyers is 3 Jacksonville State (DH)* ESPN+ L, 4-8; W, 8-3 games at the NCAA Regional live at Real Rock no stranger to the postseason having made a 9 at Murray State* W, 8-3 10 at Murray State (DH)* W, 12-8; L, 6-11 99.3 FM. Erik Sean will call the action. Friday’s combined 12 trips to the NCAA Tournament 13 at UT Martin ESPN+ W, 8-1 game will air live on ESPN3. The ESPN family during previous coaching stints at 16 Tennessee Tech* ESPN+ W, 7-3 17 Tennessee Tech (DH)* ESPN+ L, 1-9; W, 7-2 of networks will televise all regional and super Nebraska (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007), 23 at Missouri State Canceled regional games. All regional games will be on Texas A&M (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) and 24 at Missouri State (DH) Canceled ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 or the Longhorn Kansas State (2009, 2010). He also coached in 25 at Missouri State Canceled 28 at Austin Peay W, 16-3 (7) Network. Live stats for all games can be two NCAA College World Series as an 30 at Belmont* ESPN+ W, 12-0 accessed at NCAA.com. Twitter updates assistant at Nebraska in 2005 and associate May (10-5, 5-3 OVC) provided @SEMObaseball. head coach at Texas A&M in 2011. 1 at Belmont (DH)* L, 1-4; W, 5-0 7 Eastern Kentucky* ESPN+ W, 6-2 NCAA Regional Appearances 8 Eastern Kentucky (DH)* ESPN+ L, 0-8; W, 7-6 13 at Lipscomb ESPN+ W, 3-2 Southeast Missouri makes its fourth NCAA 14 at Lipscomb ESPN+ L, 0-3 Tournament appearance in program history 15 at Lipscomb ESPN+ W, 8-4 20 UT Martin* W, 6-2 this 2021 season. SEMO last made the NCAA 21 UT Martin (DH)* W, 3-2; L, 2-9 Tournament five years ago during the 2016 Southeast Missouri or SEMO is the 27 vs. #4 Austin Peay # ESPN+ W, 11-8 campaign. The Redhawks lost to preferred reference for Southeast 28 vs. #2 Murray State # ESPN+ W, 6-5 29 vs. #2 Murray State # ESPN+ L, 1-10 Mississippi State (9-5) and Louisiana Tech Missouri State University athletic teams. 30 vs. #2 Murray State # ESPN+ W, 10-1 (9-4) in Starkville, Mississippi that season. Southeastern Missouri State is not an June (0-0) SEMO clinched its other NCAA Tournament acceptable reference. 4 vs. #1 Ole Miss % ESPN3 7 p.m. berths in 1998 (Wichita, Kan.) and 2002 (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) All times Central and Subject to Change; Home Games in Bold; * - Ohio Valley Conference Game # - OVC Tournament (Jackson, Tenn.); % - NCAA Regional (Oxford, Miss.) SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BASEBALL NOTES // NCAA OXFORD REGIONAL NCAA Oxford Regional Field State (6-5, 10-1) to claim their fourth OVC No. 12 national seed and No. 1 seed Ole Miss Tournament title. In addition, SEMO won both 2021 OVC Standings (41-19), No. 2 Southern Miss (37-19), No, 3 the OVC regular-season and tournament titles Conference Overall Florida State (30-22) and No. 4 Southeast for the third time in program history (2002, School W L T Pct. W L T Pct. Missouri (30-20) form this year’s field at the 2016, 2021). Southeast Missouri 17 10 0 .630 30 20 0 .600 NCAA Regional in Oxford, Mississippi. Ole Murray State 18 12 0 .600 33 25 0 .569 Morehead State 13 11 0 .542 24 23 0 .511 Miss is one of six national seeds from the Postseason Experience Jacksonville State 16 14 0 .533 26 27 0 .491 Southeastern Conference in this year’s NCAA Southeast Missouri’s entire roster gets to Austin Peay 16 14 0 .533 23 33 0 .411 Tournament. No. 1 Arkansas, No. 3 Tennessee, experience the NCAA Tournament for the Tennessee Tech 15 15 0 .500 22 25 0 .468 No. 4 Vanderbilt, No. 7 Mississippi State and first time this year. Last weekend, a total of 17 Eastern Illinois 14 16 0 .467 25 23 0 .521 No. 15 Florida round out that group. players -- Jevon Mason, Peyton Leeper, Belmont 14 16 0 .467 22 30 0 .423 Wade Stauss, Danny Sperling, Tyler Wilber, SIUE 13 17 0 .433 23 27 0 .460 Eastern Kentucky 13 17 0 .433 21 32 0 .396 NCAA Tournament History Andrew Keck, Lincoln Andrews, Brandon UT Martin 10 17 0 .370 19 29 0 .396 Southeast Missouri is 1-6 all-time at the NCAA McCabe, Kyle Miller, Austin Williams, Ryan Vogt, Blake Cisneros, Bryce Grossius, Tournament. SEMO’s only NCAA Tournament NCAA Oxford Regional win came against Alabama (7-4) in the Dylan Dodd, Fischer Rausch, Hunter Ralls, Tuscaloosa Regional on May 31, 2002. Here is Matt Perego -- played in the first Ohio Valley Friday, June 4 Conference Tournament (May 27-30) of their Game 1 - #3 Florida State vs. #2 Southern Miss, 2 p.m., CT ESPNU the Redhawks history of NCAA Tournament Game 2 - #1 Ole Miss vs. #4 Southeast Missouri, 7 p.m., CT ESPN3 games: college careers. Midwest Regional (Wichita, Kan.) Saturday, June 5 Game 3 - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 11 a.m., CT TBA 5/21/98 vs. Wichita State L, 4-7 OVC Tournament Recap Game 4 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 5 p.m., CT TBA 5/21/98 vs. Georgia Tech L, 5-14 Top-seeded Southeast Missouri opened the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament with an Sunday, June 6 Tuscaloosa Regional (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) Game 5 - Loser Game 4 vs. Winner Game 3, 1 p.m., CT TBA 5/31/02 vs. Alabama W, 7-4 11-8 win over fourth-seeded Austin Peay (May Game 6 - Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5, 5 p.m., CT TBA 6/1/02 vs. Florida Atlantic L, 6-12 27) and 6-5 victory over second-seeded Monday, June 7 6/1/02 vs. Alabama L, 4-7 Murray State (May 28). Wade Stauss went Game 7 - If Necessary, 6 p.m., CT TBA Starkville Regional (Starkville, Miss.) 3-for-4 with two home runs, three runs, a 6/3/16 vs. Mississippi State L, 5-9 double and three RBI to lead the Redhawks 6/4/16 vs. Louisiana Tech L, 4-9 against the Governors. A day later, SEMO used a four-run eighth inning to come from behind Series History and beat Murray State. The Redhawks trailed Friday marks the 19th meeting between 5-2 in the bottom of the eighth inning and Southeast Missouri and Southeastern Confer- rallied for four two-out runs to get by the ence member Ole Miss.