TOUGALOO, Miss. - Stillman College rallied for a 15-10 win Tuesday afternoon to split a non-conference doubleheader at Tougaloo College and return to the win column. The Tigers' dropped Game 1 of the twin bill, 10-6, for what was the seventh-straight loss after an 8-0 start to the season.

Devin Kelly and Griff Minor each had five to help Stillman snap its early March skid. Minor hit 5-of-6 on the day with three walks with a total of 14 bases.


GAME 1: TOUGALOO 10, STILLMAN 6

A total of seven unearned runs were scored between the two teams to open the afternoon in central Mississippi.

The first earned runs of the game did not come until the bottom of the fifth inning. Trailing 3-0, Tougaloo pushed across seven runs, only three earned, in the inning to take a 7-3 lead.

Tre'en Dorsett tripled to start the sixth inning, followed by a Kelvin Reese hit to put runners on the corners. Reese was playing in his first two games back from injury. Devin Kelly, who hit 3-for-4 in the game, drove in one run before Griff Minor doubled in another. Kelly later scored on a ground out to cut into the Bulldogs' lead, 7-6.

However, Tougaloo tacked on three more runs in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI triple, sac fly and two-out RBI single. Stillman was retired in order in the seventh.

Raymon Vaughn (1-1) was charged with the loss, allowing five runs, three earned, off four walks and two hits through 4.1 innings. He struck out five. Deuntre Dunklin pitched the final 1.2 innings, also allowing five runs, three earned, off two walks and five hits. He struck out two.


GAME 2: STILLMAN 15, TOUGALOO 10

Griff Minor was a double shy of the cycle in the night cap. Minor tripled his first time up and homered to right in the third inning to make it a 4-3 game. After Tougaloo extended its lead to 6-3 in the bottom of the fourth, Minor followed a Devin Kelly RBI double with an RBI single in the fourth to make it 6-5.  

Stillman scored six runs in the fourth inning to take a 9-6 lead. Sammuel Fleming reached base on a catcher's interference call with the bases loaded to tie the game, before Justin Cummings cleared the bases with a two-RBI double. Fleming advanced home on a throw to score three on the play.

Fleming added an RBI groundout in the fifth that gave Stillman an insurance run that proved to be the deciding factor in Raul Polanco (1-1) being able to hang on for the win after four innings of work on the mound. Polanco allowed six runs off five walks and seven hits. He struck out four.

Bobby Woodard gave up three Bulldog runs in the bottom of the fifth before Mason Collins came in to shut down Tougaloo in the last two innings to earn his first save of the season. He entered with a one-run lead in the sixth, but Stillman scored five runs in the top of the seventh to create distance. Kelly tripled in a run, Minor singled in one, Flemming doubled in two more, before Fleming scored an unearned run. Collins allowed one run in the bottom of the seventh and gave up a total of three hits. He struck out three.

Minor hit 4-for-4 in the game with three RBI and a walk, while Kelly was 2-for-5 with two RBI. Geoff Grier and Fleming each hit 3-for-4 with Fleming driving in three runs.  Bryant Rhooms, Cummings and Tre'en Dorsett had the Tigers' other hits.