ITTA BENA, Miss. – The Mississippi Valley State University baseball program has rode a pair of dominant pitching performances to its first series win of 2026 and kept the Diamond Devils perfect at home as five hurlers combined to limit the Bulldogs to just two runs while the offense did enough to gift the Green and White a 6-2 victory in game two.
 
The Basics:
 

• Score
  • Mississippi Valley – 6
  • Alabama A&M – 2

 

• Records
  • Mississippi Valley (6-17, 2-6 SWAC)
  • Alabama A&M (7-22, 2-6 SWAC)

 

• Location
  • Itta Bena, Mississippi – Magnolia Field

 

• Series History (Since 2009)
  • Bulldogs Lead 50-39 (43.8%)

 

• Winning Streak (Since 2009)
  • Diamond Devils (W3) / Bulldogs' Last Win: March 22, 2025 (12-11)

 
Diamond Devils' Top Performers:
 

• Logan Darnell locked down his first save after entering the contest to start the seventh, yielding just one run over the final three frames with nary a walk and averaging a strikeout per inning.

 

• Tanner Aoki was the sparkplug at the top of the lineup card for Coach Bilbrey, clubbing three hits in four at-bats including the only extra-base knock (double) while scoring two times and driving in one.

 

• Lucas Valencia did not last long enough to pick up the win as the starter, but pitched fantastically, working around a few walks to tally three Ks over four full in which he gave up just one run.

 

• The dub went to Camden Farmer for the second straight game thanks to a scoreless fifth.

 

• Tom Early and Gabe Huelsing picked up multi-hit outings as they both went 2-for-4, the former adding an RBI while the latter scoring a run.

 

• Kendall Brookins sacrificed his batting average for the betterment of the team as a whole, recording two RBIs on the afternoon, each time on groundouts to shortstop with a runner on third and less than two outs.

 

• Cody Leming singled once, scored twice, brought home a teammate on the aforementioned base hit and stole the lone base for the Devils.

 
Next:
  

• Valley goes for the series sweep of Alabama A&M at 1 p.m. on Sunday with their last three-game sweep coming on the same exact dates last year versus Alcorn, March 27-29, 2025.  

 

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