Clayton Woods pitched six strong innings to earn his first victory of the season and help the Culver-Stockton baseball team claim its first Heart of America Athletic Conference victory with a 5-2 decision over Peru State College in the final game of a four-game weekend series.

Peru State, which won the first two games of the series Saturday, plated five runs in the ninth inning of the opener to pick up an 11-6 victory to guarantee a series victory.

Woods was stellar against the Bobcats, holding the team from Nebraska to four hits and two unearned runs in his outing. Woods struck out three and walked two in getting his his first win in four decisions.

PSC led 1-0 in the final game when the Wildcat offense finally came alive in the fifth inning. With two out and Eli Friend at first base, Ryan Osso drilled a triple to center field to score Friend and tie the game at a run apiece.

Kannon Kirk followed with a double to left to plate Osso and Jaison Andujar ripped a triple down the right field line t o score Kirk and make it 3-1. Tristan Meny, who had three hits in the game, scored Andujar with a single to make it a four-run frame.

The Bobcats plated an unearned run in the sixth inning to cut the lead in half at 4-2; however, the Wildcats answered with an unearned run of its own in the bottom half of the inning when Noble Oxford drove home courtesy runner Ethan Stephenson with a sacrifice fly.

Wyatt Wright joined Meny in the boxscore with multiple hits, collecting two in the game. The Wildcats , who had 19 hits in the first three games of the series, garnered 11 hits in the series finale.

In the opener, the game was tied at 1-1 when C-SC plated three runs in the third inning. Kirk singled and Andujar walked to start the inning. Both runners moved up to second and third on an error on a pickoff attempt, and then both runners moved another base with Kirk scoring on a balk.

Meny followed with a RBI single to to score Andujar and then, after Jackson Day doubled to move Meny to third, Andrew Herrick grounded out to third to score Meny.

The Bobcats made it 4-2 in the fourth inning, but the Wildcats answered with two runs of their own in the bottom of the frame on a two-run homer by Kirk to up the lead to 6-2.

Peru plated two runs in the sixth inning and then added two more runs in the seventh on a two-out, two run single in the seventh to tie the game.

Neither team scored in the eight inning, but the Bobcays exploded for five runs on five hits and one Wildcat error in the ninth en route the game one victory.

Kirk finished the game 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two runs batted in while Meny and Osso each collected two hits in the contest. 

The Wildcats, now 4-15-1 overall and 1-3 in the Heart, will play the next eight games on the road beginning next weekend, March 16-17, at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo. The first game each day is slated to begin at 1 p.m.