Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MOORHEAD, Miss. -- The Mississippi Valley State baseball team found its rhythm Saturday. 

The Delta Devils (3-29, 3-12 SWAC) won its first series of the season Saturday after defeating rival Jackson State twice at the Jimmy Bellipani Baseball Complex. MVSU held off the Tigers 5-3 in game one of the doubleheader before closing out the series with a 6-5 victory. 

Game One
Jackson State scored all three of its runs in the final two innings but it was too late for a comeback, as MVSU fended off the Tigers to secure a 5-3 victory -- it's second conference win of the season. The Delta Devils took a 5-0 commanding lead in the seventh inning after Brady McBride was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded that scored a run for Valley. Earlier in the game, in the fifth inning, Kalik May hit his second triple of the series Xzavier Franklin added a RBI-single to center field. 

MVSU's Arrington Smith led the Delta Devils with three hits, marking the third time this season he has reached that mark. May and Parker Thurman each added two hits apiece for the Valley, which finished with 11 hits on in the game. 

Connor Sheppeard earned the win on the mound. The Greenville, Miss. native gave up two earned runs on eight hits with three strikeouts. 

Game Two
Xzavier Franklin's RBI-single to left field in the bottom of the eighth inning proved to be the winning run for Mississippi Valley State, who edged JSU 6-5 in game three of the series. Franklin finished with three hits, tying a season high which he set at Alcorn State last month. Brady McBride chipped in two hits for MVSU, which finished with eight in the game. 

Blake Thomas (1-5) was credited with the win, his first of the season. 

MVSU will be back in action Saturday, April 26 when they host Alcorn State in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. in Moorhead.