Terre Haute, Ind. - In only the program's fourth year, the Millsaps College fastpitch softball team claimed its first-ever Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference softball championship with an 8-0 victory over Sewanee on Sunday afternoon, the last day of the 2003 SCAC Spring Sports Festival on the campus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Millsaps relied on three singles from Christina Sharp, Barbara Balla, and Robin Rockco in the first inning before Naffie Mooney doubled to deep left-center field to score all three runners. Mooney scored two batters later on a single by Jennifer Drew to put Millsaps on top 4-0.

Millsaps continued its scoring streak in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings. In the bottom of the fourth, consecutive doubles by Sharp and Danielle Cross and one RBI from Balla added two more runs for the Majors. In the next frame, Brittany Ladner scored on Helen Loring's single to left field, and in the final at-bat, Balla slid home to make the score to 8-0.

Tammy Ladner (12-3) earned the win for Millsaps, pitching six scoreless innings and striking out three batters. For Sewanee, Amy Owensby (16-10) and Abby Otte combined for three strike outs in the loss.

Trinity University, the only school previously to have held the SCAC Softball title, was eliminated one game earlier by Sewanee.