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Winner Mississippi Valley MISSISSI 10-18
10
Alcorn St. ALCORN S 7-25
Winner
Mississippi Valley MISSISSI
10-18
13
Final
10
Alcorn St. ALCORN S
7-25
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Mississippi Valley MISSISSI 3 0 0 0 2 3 2 2 1 13 12 1
Alcorn St. ALCORN S 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 2 10 12 4

W: Darnell, Logan () L: Devin Kriley ()

3/29/26
Mississippi State Athletics

Game Recap: Baseball | | MVSU Communications

Second Straight Sweep Lifts Valley To .500 In SWAC Play

Box Score

LORMAN, Miss. – The Mississippi Valley State University baseball program has broken even in Southwestern Athletic Conference competition for the first time since 2022 after dispatching the Alcorn Braves for the third consecutive game, 13-10.

The last instance in which the Diamond Devils were at or above the .500 mark in league action was four seasons ago when they opened at 2-1 while MVSU tallied a second SWAC sweep in a single year for the first time since 2009.

The Basics:

  • Score
    • Mississippi Valley – 13
    • Alcorn – 10

  • Records
    • Mississippi Valley (10-18, 6-6 SWAC)
    • Alcorn (7-25, 1-11 SWAC)

  • Series History
    • Braves Lead 166-100-1 (37.6%)

  • Winning Streak
    • Diamond Devils (W8) / Braves' Last Win: March 20, 2024 (7-5)

Diamond Devils' Top Performers:

  • Tanner Aoki set the table brilliantly, taking what was given to him at the top of the lineup by coaxing four walks plus singling as he eventually scored three vital runs.

  • Cody Leming also reached safely five times but did his damage by going 3-for-4 with a two-bagger, a trio of scores, two ribbies, and a pair of free passes.

  • Chris Brown became the first Devils reliever to hammer down multiple saves in 2026, collecting his second less than a week apart from his first, by working around a bases loaded and nobody out situation that he inherited.

  • Tom Early continues his stretch of driving runs in by the bunches, clubbing a two-RBI triple as well as a two-RBI single.

  • Both Chris Soeder and Gabe Huelsing registered multi-hit affairs as the duo combined to cross the plate thrice, the former adding a RBI to his line thanks to a double.

Next:

  

  • The Green and White have earned four days of reprieve to visit family and friends for the Easter holiday before getting back to work on Tuesday at 6 p.m. against ULM in Monroe, Louisiana.

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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play MISSISSI ALCORN S
MISSISSI TOP 1st Cody Leming doubled down the lf line, RBI (1-1 KB); Tanner Aoki scored. 1 0
MISSISSI TOP 1st Chris Soeder doubled down the rf line, RBI (0-0); Cody Leming scored. 2 0
MISSISSI TOP 1st Chris Soeder scored on a passed ball, unearned. 3 0
ALCORN S BOT 1st Keatan Hawk flied out to rf, SAC, RBI (1-2 BFFF); Kanious Davis scored. 3 1
ALCORN S BOT 3rd Cooper Harris stole second, advanced to third on the throw; Keatan Hawk stole third, scored on a throwing error by lf, unearned. 3 2
ALCORN S BOT 4th Gavin Caston homered to left field, 2 RBI (1-0 H); Chase Moore scored. 3 4
MISSISSI TOP 5th Tom Early tripled down the lf line, 2 RBI (3-2 KBFBBF); Cody Leming scored, unearned; Tanner Aoki scored, unearned. 5 4
MISSISSI TOP 6th Cody Leming singled, advanced to third, RBI (0-1 F); Tanner Aoki scored, unearned; Gabe Huelsing advanced to third, scored on a fielding error by lf, unearned; Eric Williams scored, unearned. 8 4
ALCORN S BOT 6th Kanious Davis grounded out to 3b, RBI (3-2 BKBBSF); Chase Moore scored. 8 5
MISSISSI TOP 7th Eric Williams reached first on a fielding error by 3b, RBI (0-1 K); Isreal Ramos scored, unearned; Chris Soeder scored, unearned. 10 5
ALCORN S BOT 7th Jamir Hollway stole second; Cooper Harris scored on the throw. 10 6
MISSISSI TOP 8th Tom Early singled to right field, 2 RBI (0-0); Kendall Brookins scored; Cody Leming scored. 12 6
ALCORN S BOT 8th Keatan Hawk hit by pitch, RBI (0-0); Rayfield Adams III advanced to second; Kanious Davis advanced to third; Gavin Caston scored. 12 7
ALCORN S BOT 8th Asher Friedman flied out to rf, SAC, RBI (0-1 F); Rayfield Adams III advanced to third on the throw; Kanious Davis scored on the throw. 12 8
MISSISSI TOP 9th Gabe Huelsing singled, advanced to second (0-1 K); Stephen Landaz advanced to third, scored on a fielding error by lf, unearned. 13 8
ALCORN S BOT 9th Rayfield Adams III singled to left field, 2 RBI (0-0); Gavin Caston advanced to second; Chase Moore scored; Nico Garcia scored. 13 10

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