TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Stillman College continued its success in non-conference action, sweeping Tougaloo College in a midweek doubleheader Tuesday, 10-6 and 14-13. The Tigers needed a seventh-inning, walk-off single by Mason Collins to close out the sweep in Game 2.

The sweep moved Stillman (14-23) to 13-0 when scoring 10 or more runs and 12-3 against historical black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this season. Stillman went a combined 6-0 against Oakwood University, Tuskegee University and Clark-Atlanta University in February. The Tigers also won both of its non-conference HBCU series against Tougaloo and Rust College, 3-1. The only other HBCU loss came on the road at NCAA Division I opponent Alabama A&M on Feb. 28.

Devin Kelly hit .556 (5-for-9) to lead Stillman in the two games, while Tre'en Dorsett hit .500 (3-for-6) and scored six runs.

GAME 1: STILLMAN 10, TOUGALOO 6

Stillman jumped out to a seven-run lead in the first inning and led 9-0 through three innings before Tougaloo fought back.

Devin Kelly led off the game with a double to right center for the Tigers and scored on an error to give Stillman a 1-0 lead. Three runs scored in the inning on wild pitches and a total of two runs scored on errors. Tre'en Dorsett collected an RBI on an error at second and Bilal Whittle later doubled in two runs for his only hit of the day. 

A Dorsett RBI triple in the bottom of the third and Whittle RBI groundout stretched the Tigers' lead to nine. 

Tougaloo took five runs off Tiger starting pitcher Raul Polanco (2-2), capitalizing on six wild pitches. Crishton Chapman had an RBI single in the inning and Orlando Truss hit a two-run home run before Polanco pitched out of the inning with a strikeout, his eighth of the game. He allowed six hits in the four-inning win. 

Stillman got one run back in the bottom of the fourth on a wild pitch, stretching the lead to 10-5.

Sophomore shortstop Kobe Lewis made his first pitching performance of the season, allowing only one run off two hits through three innings to earn the save. The Clay-Chalkville native had four of the Tigers 12 strikeouts of the game. 

Kelly had two hits, while Grier, TJ Davis, Dorsett and Whittle each had one to make up the Tigers' six hits.


GAME 2: STILLMAN 14, TOUGALOO 13

After falling into a 7-0 hole in the top of the first, Stillman scattered 13 runs across five innings to regain control of the game. However, it took a Mason Collins RBI single in the seventh for the Tigers to complete the win, 14-13. 

Devin Kelly and Geoff Grier delivered back-to-back singles in the bottom of the first to jump start Stillman's offense. Grier's single drove in Kelly for the first RBI of the game. Two more runs came in on sacrifice fly outs by Samuel Fleming and Collins.

Orlando Truss, who hit 3-for-4 in each game for Tougaloo, doubled in a pair of unearned Bulldog runs in the top of the third inning. From there, Griff Minor and Cody Clark shut down the Bulldogs over the next four innings.

Stillman scored five in the bottom of the third inning. Six straight hits set the tone for the Tigers, including four doubles. Fleming, Justin Cummings and Bobby Woodard each had one RBI in the inning, while Cole Odom drove in two with a double that made it a one-run game, 9-8.

The Tigers took an 11-9 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, scoring unearned runs without a hit. Two runs scored on wild pitches and one on an error. Stillman added a pair of insurance runs in the fifth inning, including a Collins sac fly RBI.

Griff Minor took over on the mound in the first inning and pitched 3.2 innings, allowing only three hits and two unearned runs. Cody Clark was in position for the save but allowed four runs in the top of the seventh for Tougaloo to tie the game, 13-13. 

Deuntre Dunklin (1-0) earned the win after retiring the final out in the top of the seventh. Grier walked to open the bottom half of the inning and was bunted over by Dorsett before scoring the winning run on Collins' single to right center. Collins led Stillman with three RBIs. 

Kelly hit 3-for-5 to lead Stillman in the game, while Dorsett and Collins each had two hits. Grier, Fleming, Cummings, Woodard and Odom each had one hit. 


NEXT: The Tigers (14-23, 1-17 SSAC) will host Middle Georgia State University in a three-game Southern States Athletic Conference series this weekend. Friday will be a doubleheader at noon, followed by Senior Day on Saturday at noon.