Goodwell, Okla. - The Oklahoma Panhandle State University Baseball Team played an inter-conference doubleheader against the Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes on Tuesday. The mid-week contests were originally set to be away games for the Aggies, but inclement weather in Salina, Kansas moved the location to Goodwell. The Aggies split the two games losing the first and winning the second in walk-off fashion, by scores of 3-2 and 1-0, respectively.
 
Junior Austin Jacobs got the call for game one, and had one of his best outing of the season. Jacobs went all seven innings giving up only three hits, three earned runs, and striking out three batters. He ended up taking the loss as the Aggies were unable to get much of anything going offensively.
 
At the plate, the Aggies totaled six hits, two apiece off the bats of Markus Bracey and Luis Rodriguez. In the bottom of the seventh, Stallworth doubled to right-center, continuing his hot bat. He then scored on a sacrifice fly by JJ Vaught but they could not tie it up and lost by just one run.
 
In game two, another fantastic pitching performance kept the Aggies in the game. Freshman Corbin Yandell went all seven innings as well, allowing only four hits and no runs and striking out five. Yandell, who has started only one other game this year, joins Jojo Goetze, Jacobs and Bracey as the only other starting pitchers to pitch a complete game for the Aggies. "I just wanted to give my team a chance to win today," says Yandell. "I was just trying to throw strikes and not give them any free bases." Yandell was extremely efficient, throwing a very low total of 78 pitches and faced only four batters over the minimum.
 
Offensively, both teams were shutout until the seventh. The Aggies had their chances but could not cash in. In the bottom of the seventh, they finally got it done. With pinch-runner Hayden Boyd at third, senior centerfielder Chris Schraer stepped up to the plate and delivered one of the most exciting hits for Panhandle State this season. Schraer drove a 1-0 pitch to left field to score Boyd for the team's first walk-off win of the year for the Aggies. "It feels good to get the win and to get back to the Aggie Baseball approach that Coach Joy has instilled in us," Schraer says. Hopefully we continue this approach this weekend against a very good Wayland Baptist team."
 
"Corbin Yandell and Austin Jacobs pitched very well today, they were huge for us," Head Coach Shawn Joy states. "We had a lot of good at-bats but not a lot to show for it. It's good for us to learn how to win low-scoring, close games. Chris Schraer stepped up for his team when they needed him."
 
The Aggies will try to carry this momentum into this weekend when they face a Sooner Athletic Conference foe in Wayland Baptist University. The series opener will be on Thursday at 2:00 PM CST in Goodwell, with the doubleheader scheduled for Saturday with a noon start time.