Millsaps College -- Millsaps pushed across 4 runs off 7 hits and held cross-town rival Mississippi College to just 3 runs to capture their third straight win of the young season and their second victory in the 2003 Cowboy Maloney Series. Millsaps was a 4-1 winner over Belhaven in the first game of the Maloney Series last week.

Millsaps (3-1) plated its first run in the second inning when Ben Wilson lashed an RBI single to right field to score Joe Thrash from second base.

The Majors then managed three more runs in the fifth frame, starting with Matt Yglesias' RBI double to score Randall Vaughan from second base. After Yglesias advanced to third on a wild pitch, Stuart Phillips lofted a deep sacrifice fly to knock home Yglesias. Designated hitter Joe Thrash then laced a single to center field and promptly stole second base before scoring on a Scott Staines RBI single to right field.

Mississippi College (0-1) charted their runs in the top of the seventh inning as they managed 3 scores, all with two outs. A bases loaded walk by Majors' reliever Todd Kindler sent the Choctaws' Jason Curry plateward. Then a Kent Chamblee double scored Joey Hickner and Turk Stovall to pull the Choctaws within one at 4-3.

Kindler then threw scoreless 7th and 8th innings before Stephen Kirkpatrick and John Fox pitched a scoreless 9th to wrap up the win for the Majors.

Millsaps' starter Doug Garner allowed just three hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings of work to improve his record to 1-1. After Kirkpatrick forced out two Choctaw players in the ninth, Fox retired just 1 batter to earn his first save of the year.

Sam Graham (0-1) was charged with the loss for Mississippi College.

The Majors travel to Georgetown, TX, this weekend to play a three game series with SCAC rival Southwestern. Saturday's double-header will start at 1:00 p.m. Sunday's first pitch will be thrown at 1:00 p.m.