GOODWELL, Okla. – The Rogers State baseball team closed its 2015 season finishing a three-game sweep at Oklahoma Panhandle State winning 9-2 Saturday afternoon at Aggie Field with Andrew Vanisi inking his name in the record books.
 
Vanisi provided two hits, both doubles, in the first two innings to move past Eric Baker's 2012 single-season record of 19 doubles, as the senior finished the year with a Heartland-Conference leading 20. On a day where winds were howling in from center field keeping the ball in the park, the Hillcats managed 11 hits and scored in five of nine innings played.
 
A two-run first for RSU got the day started quickly before tallying three more runs in the second highlighted by a two-run double from Vanisi that scored Chase Knott and Caleb Kohlmeyer. The Hillcats made it a 6-0 lead in the third as Alex Cochran reached on a two-out OPSU error and came around to score on a single by Knott.
 
Garrett Hall provided a two-RBI double into right center plating Blake Heston and Ryan Hendricks in the seventh as the RSU advantage stretched to 8-0. Kohlmeyer rounded out the scoring for the Hillcats on a sacrifice fly that brought Cochran home in the top of the eighth.
 
The Aggies avoided the shutout by scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth but the weekend road trip belonged to the Cats finishing the sweep, 9-2.
 
Blake Gipson and Trae BoBo joined Vanisi with multi-hit efforts from the plate as the trio combined for seven hits.
 
Tyson (3-3) picked up the win throwing five innings of one-hit baseball while striking out a career-high eight batters. The junior did not allow a runner past second base in his best performance of the year. Zack Tingen (0-9) suffered the loss for OPSU allowing six runs, four earned, in five innings of work.
 
Saturday marked the final outing for 12 Hillcats as Alex Cochran, Joe Crow, Blake Gipson, Ryan Hendricks, Chase Knott, Edward Layton, Mason Marquette, Johan Ochoa, Matthew Shepard, Hunter Spencer, Travis Teague, and Andrew Vanisi closed their careers in the navy and red.
 
Rogers State ends the year with a 19-27 record going 9-18 in its second season in the Heartland Conference placing eighth in the 10-team league.