CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — For the second straight game, the Bellarmine University baseball team wasn't able to hold a late-inning lead, as Southeast Missouri State rallied from a six-run deficit to tie and then won 8-7 in 11 innings on a walk-off home run by Lincoln Andrews.

Senior left fielder Matt Higgins went 3-for-5 and blasted a grand slam in the second inning for Bellarmine (1-5), which took a 6-0 lead on Higgins' first homer of the season. The Knights added a run in the fifth when sophomore first baseman Davis Crane led off the inning by launching his first homer of the year.

Bellarmine wouldn't score another run against SEMO (3-1), which was an NCAA Tournament team last season. The Redhawks cut the Knights' lead in half in the third on Tyler Wilber's three-run homer.

After that, SEMO methodically chipped away at Bellarmine's lead until finally tying it at 7-all in the eighth. The Redhawks scored one run apiece in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth.

Bellarmine had the potential go-ahead run thrown out at the plate in the 10th. In the 11th, Andrews ended it by leading off the frame with a homer to left center.

In the second, junior designated hitter Robert Sproul preceded Higgins' grand slam with a two-run double. Bellarmine amassed 13 hits, with senior third baseman Colin Bertsch, Crane, senior right fielder Jacob Mulcahy and senior center fielder Jack Ockerman all collecting two apiece.

Bellarmine and SEMO will play a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. (ET) Sunday.

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