Darek Sargent
Hays Collins
12
Winner Delta State DSU 32-10
6
Miss. Valley St. MVSU 6-22
Winner
Delta State DSU
32-10
12
Final
6
Miss. Valley St. MVSU
6-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Delta State DSU 1 2 1 3 2 1 0 0 2 12 13 1
Miss. Valley St. MVSU 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 6 10 2

W: Minton, Dalton (8-2) L: Nicholas Johnson (2-4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Fred Sington

Diamond Statesmen Down Delta Devils, 12-6

ITTA BENA, Miss.—Darek Sargent, Jake Barlow, Payton Lane and Josh Russell combined for nine RBIs to lead No. 13 Delta State University baseball team (32-10, 18-8 GSC) to a 12-6 win over Mississippi Valley State (6-22) on Tuesday, April 23 at the MVSU Baseball Field.
 
Barlow went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs to lead Statesmen at the plate.
 
THE BASICS
FINAL: #13 Delta State 12 | Miss. Valley St. 6
Date/Time: Tues., April 23, 2019 | Start: 3:00 p.m.
Location: MVSU Baseball Field
Records: Statesmen 32-10, 18-8 GSC | Delta Devils 6-22, 1-9 SWAC
Series: DSU leads series 88-16-1

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • The Statesmen grabbed a 1-0 lead on a Jake Barlow solo home run in the first.
  • MVSU's Jordan Sawyer hit a solo home run in the bottom of the first tied the game 1-1.
  • Delta State scored two runs in the second and one in the third to take a 4-1 lead. Payton Lane and Weber Herbison scored on a Josh Russell single down the left field line in the second. Barlow singled and scored on a Lane single in the third.
  • The lead grew to 7-1 in the fourth. Barlow had a sac-fly to center to score Russell and Brett Young scored when David Herrington walked a stole second. Herrington later scored on a CJ Estave RBI single.
  • Mississippi Valley State cut the lead to 7-5 with a four-run fourth. Billy LeFlore doubled in a run and Wendell Rieves had a two-run double to highlight the inning.
  • The Statesmen added two runs in the fifth and sixth innings to take a 10-5 lead. After a run scored on an error, Russell scored on a Darek Sargent sac-fly to center in the fifth. Estave doubled and scored on a Lane sac-fly to center.
  • Sargent doubled home two runs to extend the lead to 12-5 in the ninth.
  • Fred Spencer's RBI single in the bottom of the ninth closed the scoring and cut the Statesmen lead to 12-6.
ON THE MOUND
  • Statesmen starter Dalton Minton (8-2) gave up a run on two hits in two schedule innings pitched to pick up the win.
  • MVSU starter Nicholas Johnson (2-3) yielded three runs on four hits with a walk to suffer the loss.
  • Layne Tedder, Patrick Hodges, Tyler Walton to work four innings, allowing one run on one hit with three strikeouts to close the game.  

NOTEABLES
  • Barlow was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs and Sargent went 2-for-5 with a double, a sac-fly and three RBIs
  • Russell had two hits including a two-run double while Lane had two singles with two RBIs and two runs scored.
  • Estave went 2-for-3 with an RBI double.
  • Head Coach Mike Kinnison earned win number 971 putting him 29 wins shy of 1,000.

UP NEXT
  • The Statesmen remain on the road to play a GSC series against Mississippi College this weekend in Clinton, Miss. The series begins with a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m. and concludes with a single game on Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
 
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