Box Score
JACKSON – Stranding 12 runners in the game, the Millsaps College baseball team could not come up with the clutch hit necessary to take a lead as Trinity University earned the weekend split Sunday afternoon at Twenty Field with a 10-7 victory.
The loss is the first for the Majors in conference play in 2010 as they fall to 7-1 in the SCAC and 12-5 overall while Trinity improves to 15-5 overall and 7-3 in the SCAC.
Millsaps left at least one runner on base in six of the nine innings played.
The Tigers got on the board in the first inning and added three in the third to take an early 4-0 lead.
The margin could have been more as
Boomer Hudson came in to replace starter
Blake Boleware with two outs in the third and got the final out with the bases full.
Millsaps answered with three runs in the bottom half of the third cutting the deficit to 4-3.
Trey Rountree started the inning with a walk and
Drew Leonard followed with a single before
Jeremy Aliff reached on a throwing error that scored Rountree.
After
Josh Ordeneaux walked to load the bases,
Will Hawkins hit a two-run single through the right side.
Each team scored a run in the fourth before the Majors evened the score 5-5 in the fifth with an RBI single from
Wes Perkins but Millsaps was unable to add any more with the bases loaded and only one out.
Trinity reclaimed a lead scoring one in the sixth before taking advantage of a Millsaps error en route to scoring four in the seventh for a 10-5 advantage.
The Majors were able to get two runs back in the bottom of the seventh aided by two Tigers’ errors but it was not enough as the comeback fell short and Trinity came away with the win, 10-7.
Leading the way for Millsaps offensively was Hawkins, Mills, Perkins and Leonard, who all finished with two hits.
Pacing Trinity was Nick Pappas who finished hitting 3-for-4 with three RBIs while Kelly Woodruff drove in four runs despite going 0-for-3 from the plate.
Hudson took the loss for the Majors and falls to 2-1 while the Tigers’ reliever Ryan Lucero earned the victory to move to 3-0 on the season.
Millsaps will be back in action on Tuesday evening as it hosts Illinois Wesleyan University for a mid-week series beginning at 6 p.m.