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Tyler Aldridge, a senior from Steens via East Mississippi Community College, has hit safely in all 25 of Delta State’s games. … The NCAA Division II nationally ranked Statesmen (21-4) overcame an early 3-0 deficit to beat D-I Mississippi Valley State (3-21) by a 9-3 count on Tuesday in Greenville. … Mississippi State trailed Alcorn State 5-0 on Tuesday before mounting a rally and winning 7-6 in Starkville. The nationally ranked Bulldogs are now 20-4, the Braves 4-18. … Jonathan Holder notched his seventh save for State. … Southern Miss, sputtering at 8-11, travels to Mobile tonight to play Auburn in a final pre-conference tuneup. Conference USA power Rice comes to Hattiesburg on Friday. … USM is 1-4 all-time against Auburn, but the win came last year. … Jackson State (10-10) is 7-2 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, led by — no surprise here — Desmond Russell, the Bahamas native who is batting .321 with two homers and 19 RBIs and is 3-0 with a 1.38 ERA and a save as a pitcher. … Belhaven moved to 3-0 in Maloney Trophy Series play with a 6-4 win at Millsaps on Tuesday. … Robert Marzoni, who has seven saves, got the win for BU, now 21-12. … William Carey (21-8) is tied for first in the Southern States Athletic Conference with a 12-3 mark. Carey has series wins over the other two first-place clubs (NAIA nationally ranked Lee and Faulkner). … Carey’s Scott Fabre, who homered in a win over Arkansas Tech on Monday, is batting .389 with four bombs and 29 RBIs. … Mississippi College’s Josh Perez, a preseason All-American Southwest Conference pick, is batting .385 with 16 runs, 10 RBIs and 11 steals. … MC (9-12, 2-4 ASC) has hit just one home run (by Keaton Hankins) this season.