MOBILE, Ala. - Griff Minor pitched a complete-game shutout to begin the final day of the 2024 season help the Stillman College Tigers to a split of their final Southern States Athletic Conference doubleheader against the University of Mobile. 

The Tigers won the first game 6-0 for the program's first SSAC win over Mobile and first against the Rams since 2018. Mobile bounced back to take the second game, 11-1. All three games of the series, including a 12-2 Mobile win on Thursday, were completed in seven innings. 

Minor (3-5) allowed only four hits and two walks in his seven innings of work. He struck out five Rams hitters. Through the game, he allowed only three runners to reach scoring position, and stranded two runners on third base.

The junior from Helena, Alabama, received help in the top of the fourth when Troy Davis hit a two-run home run to left field to put Stillman up 2-0. Cameron Sipp extended the lead in the fourth inning with a sacrifice fly, while Tre'en Dorsett picked up an RBI in the fifth inning. Devin Kelly capped Stillman's scoring in the first game with a two-RBI single to center to score Isiah Haskins and Sipp. 

Dylan Speakman and Kelly each hit 2-for-3 in the game, while Samuel Fleming, Sieas Elliott, Kobe Lewis, Davis, Sipp and Hoskins each had one hit. 

The script flipped in the Game 2, as Stillman was held to one hit through five innings by Mobile's Ethan McPherson (4-2). Stillman's lone hit off the starter was a one-out Michael Glover single in the fifth inning, but McPherson struck out the next two batters to end the inning.

Mobile got on the board, 1-0, when Jaron Harris hit a solo home run to right field to put Mobile on the board and spark seven unanswered runs across five innings. Wil King also had a two-run home run for the Rams.

Stillman's only run came in the top of the sixth when Dylan Speakman singled down the left field line with two outs. He then scored on a Devin Kelly double to left, 7-1.

Mobile scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh to end the game early. 

Raymon Vaughn (2-7) started on the hill for the Tigers, allowing six runs, three earned, off five hits through four innings. He struck out three. 

Stillman (15-31, 6-24) concludes its final season in the Southern States Athletic Conference season with a program-best six wins and two series wins in SSAC action. The Tigers' 15 wins match the 2023 win total, which is the best since joining the SSAC in 2019, however Stillman had 10 non-conference games rained out through the season that kept the Tigers from having a shot at their best record since transitioning to the NAIA.

Stillman College will join the HBCU Athletic Conference, currently known as the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, effective July 1 for the 2024-2025 academic year.