JONESBORO, Ark. - The Jaguars (14-18, 4-9 SBC) defense shut down the Red Wolves (15-18, 6-7 SBC) offense for the final five innings, but were unable to claw back into the game in the 6-3 loss on Friday night.

After getting into a hole in the first inning, Jaxon Shinelfew pitched his final 4.2 innings allowing only two hits, three walks, and a run. Ty Brooks made his way to second on a single and wild pitch, then scored off a Brennan Holt double.

Holt again scored Brooks and himself on a two run homer to right field to cut the lead to three, but were unable to work out another runner past second the rest of the game. 

Jacob Haley and Sam Boardwine out of the pen combined for 2.1 innings with one hit allowed and two strikeouts.

Win: Gavin Galy (1-1)
Save: Chase Richter (4)
Loss: Jaxon Shineflew (2-2)

QUOTES
Head Coach Mark Calvi

On the flow of the game: Aside from the first inning, we beat him three to one, and I told the guys afterwards. I gave Shineflew a lot of credit. He's been really good for us. You know, a hit by pitch, a couple walks in there, one swing. They're not a super offensive club. They've got some dangerous guys, but their numbers don't indicate that they hit a lot of home runs, but the wind's blowing out, and we just, you know, made a mistake. Made a couple mistakes, but we put some guys on base ahead of them. I give Shineflew credit. He hung in there, and where they had to go to three or four, we were in position to win. Six runs, especially giving up five in the first, our guys battled and stayed in it. And, you know, they're pitching is first or second in the league for a good reason, and they're outstanding. We knew exactly who they have down there. The good thing is, we got into three of their main relievers, which was good, so we got to look at it and extended them. We didn't give, we didn't give any at bats away. We knew their starter, Galy has good sink. You know, we didn't do a good enough job, but he did a great job tonight. We didn't do a good enough job getting the ball up, but he didn't give us many opportunities. He was working at the bottom of the strike zone, and the umpire was giving it to him. So I told our guys I was proud of their effort, and we competed all night long. It just didn't go our way tonight, but we battled and hung in there and got into their bullpen a little bit, and we were in position. We were within striking distance. We had men on and, you know, not a whole lot, like I said, there weren't a whole lot of hits to be found tonight, and we out hit them, but we gave up some free passes, and they hit two long balls and that got us.

UP NEXT 
South Alabama returns to face Arkansas State in game two of the series on Saturday at 6 p.m.

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