Park University's baseball program had their final regular season series against Missouri Valley College on Friday and Saturday, winning three of the four over the Vikings, 2-0, 4-0, 23-2, 2-6

Park ends the year at 17-29 and 11-21 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference, while the Vikings have a similar 15-31 and 11-21 conference record.

GAME 1 BOX SCORE | 2-0

Kenneth Melendez in game one had the game's only RBI and scored the second run on a balk, all in the bottom of the second.

It was a clean game defensively with a steady Adam Stilts on the hill for the Pirates. Stilts threw his seventh complete game of the season, shutting out the Vikings on six hits, no walks, and three strikeouts.

The Pirates had five hits with two coming from Yadiel Santana, who finished second on the team in batting average at .353.

GAME 2 BOX SCORE | 4-0

For the second straight game, Park pitching put up all zeroes on the board against Missouri Valley. Raul Garcia got the start in game two and struck out 10 batters in six innings of work. That's the most strikeouts by a Pirate pitcher in a single game this season. A memorable game for Garcia as he earns his first career win at Park.

The Vikings got out of a bases loaded, no-outs jam in the first inning with only allowing one run on a fielder's choice.

Park then scored every other inning through the fifth for the 4-0 lead. In the bottom of the third, the senior catcher, Casey Mareschal broke the silence with a loud double to left centerfield that scored two runs.

Park would then have their final run of the game from the bat of Zayne Morrow, who pierced the only homerun of the day to right center.

Three Pirates had multi-hit games including, Santana, Mareschal, and Daniel Maldonado.

Bryce Perdieu is now tied for 2^nd in Park's all-time records with six saves in his career, as he struck out two batters in his scoreless frame for the save with the tying run on-deck.

GAME 3 BOX SCORE | 23-2

Game three was an appropriate way to send out Park's eight seniors. Before the game, Park Athletics honored Giancarlo Chianta, JD Wright, Brandt Lightner, Davisai Pizarro, Casey Mareschal, Trent Turner, Angel Lebron, and Bryce Dye.

Park scored in every inning of the series' third game except the second inning. Three of those innings featured at least four runs, not to mention an eight-run sixth to give Park its largest number of runs scored since the 2021 season.

21 hits in a game is also the most hits since 2021, in a game against St. Mary on April 5 that set the Park record for runs scored in a game with 32.

The entire starting lineup had at least one hit in the game, and there were four three-hit performances from Alex Rodriguez, Santana, Ricardo Hernandez, and Trent Turner.

Hernandez had a career day with eight RBI's in one game on two doubles and a triple.

The senior outfielder, Turner had four RBI's himself with a dead-center home run to make it 20-2 in the sixth inning.

Two seniors had doubles, including Dye with two and three RBI's on the day and Chianta who pulled a ball down the leftfield line for the hustle double.

Guillermo Gelpi threw five quality innings and then handed it off to two seniors out of the pen to close the door. Lightner threw an inning without allowing an earned run and his fellow senior Wright came in for the final three outs. Wright only allowed one hit and a walk in his scoreless inning.

GAME 4 BOX SCORE | 2-6

The offense did not have the same luster in the final game of the series as only five hits for Park scored two runs, despite four Missouri Valley errors.

Billy Rivera singled to centerfield to score the game's first run in the bottom of the second and then a throwing error by the Vikings' catcher down to second on Rivera's stolen base allowed Corey Bradford to walk in from third.

Angel Lebron threw five, shutout innings for Park on his last outing as a Pirate and will go down as Park's all-time career strikeout leader with 186. Lebron had six strikeouts and in the game and only allowed three hits.

Two runs came in to Lebron's credit in the sixth inning and then Jesse Scholtz, Morrow, and Perdieu were called upon for the last 1.2 innings.

With two Vikings on base and the game tied at 2-2, a three-run home run put Missouri Valley ahead 5-2. One more run came in to score to eventually win the game, 6-2.

Dye led the team with two hits in the game, but also led Park with a .380 average and a team leading eight home runs. He is atop major career statistical batting categories with records for 181 career RBI's, 45 doubles, 40 home runs, and 45 hit by pitches. This season, he also became the all-time putouts leader with 801.

The Pirates just barely miss out on post-season play, as the Ravens of Benedictine College swept MidAmerica Nazarene University for the fourth spot in the Heart South Division standings.