The Culver-Stockton College baseball team concluded the 2026 season with a split of a Heart of America Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Nichols Field in Canton, Mo.

Isaiah Naylor pitched a competed game, four-hitter as the Wildcats captured the opening game 6-2. In the nightcap, the Statesmen banged out 16 hits, including six extra base hits, in a 19-7 victory over the Wildcats.

Naylor, a senior from Eunice, La., was magnificent in his final start of his collegiate career. Naylor allowed four singles, walked a batter and struck out nine Statesmen in picking up his sixth victory of the season. It was Naylor's second complete game and he did it on 111 pitches throwing 72 strikes.

The Wildcats took a 1-0 lead in the opening frame when the Wildcats got singles from Harry Oden and General Schofield, and Jeremiah Morris reached on an error to load the bases. Giancarlo Arroyo was then hit by a pitch to force in the first run of the game.

The score stayed that way until the fourth inning when C-SC registered five straight singles to start the inning with Kannon Kirk and Jack Linenfelser delivering run scoring singles.

Oden chipped in with a sacrifice fly, Morris drove in a run with a single and Schofield drive in the fifth run with a groundout to make it 6-0 after four innings.

The Statesmen plated two runs on three hits in the sixth inning, however, Naylor ended the threat with a strikeout and then set the visitors down in order in the seventh to preserve the victory.

Oden and Kirk, who returned from a wrist injury suffered March 22 against Mount Mercy, collected two hits each to lead the Wildcat offensive attack. Morris garnered two runs batted in.

In game two, each team scored a run in the first inning with Schofield driving home Oden with a single for C-SC's first run.

The Statesmen plated five more runs in the top of the second inning but the Wildcats answered with two of their own with a RBI double by Oden and a sacrifice fly by Morris to cut the deficit to 6-3.

After each team went three innings without scoring, William Penn exploded for 11 runs on eight hits in the top of the sixth inning to essentially put the game away.

C-SC didn't go quietly in the seventh inning despite the large deficit. Cooper Kiel tripled with one out and scored on a two-run homer by Arroyo. 

Then a walk to Tyler Schmidt, a single by Kirk and a RBI singe by Linenfelser plated one more run before Kirk scored on a wild pitch to end the scoring.

Oden finished with three hits while Kirk collected two more hits to finish with four hits on the day to lead C-SC.