LaGRANGE, Ga. – Less than 24 hours after rallying for three runs in the 10th inning to complete a come-from-behind, 6-3 win over LaGrange on Saturday, junior Tait Hendrix tossed seven innings of three-hit ball for Millsaps on Sunday to help the Majors win 9-0 and complete a three-game sweep over the Panthers at Cleaveland Field.
Hendrix (2-1, 3.47 ERA) pitched seven shutout innings and struck out six, while senior Brandon Ingram and freshman Josh Conlee closed out the final two innings on the mound and the offense took advantage of nine hits and five Panther errors.
Winners of four-straight after losing five-of-six, Millsaps (10-5) plated a pair of runs in the second inning to take the early lead, using a leadoff walk issued to freshman Josh Ordeneaux to get the inning started, followed by a Billy Murphy RBI-double to left. Murphy later scored in the frame, advancing on a fielding error and scoring off a wild pitch.
The Majors followed with a single run in the third and took a 3-0 lead through four innings while Hendrix continued to set down the LaGrange lineup in order on the mound, retiring 12 of the first 13 batters he faced.
In the sixth, freshman Jeremy Aliff delivered a leadoff single and later scored and senior Quinn Salmon sent an RBI-single up the middle to help the visitors plate two more runs and increase the lead to 5-0.
LaGrange (4-6) never got the offense going, managing just four hits off three Millsaps pitchers and advancing a runner in scoring position only once in the game in the fifth inning when Brandon Mahoney reached base on a single and was sacrificed to second.
The Majors would tack on a single run in the seventh and three in the eighth to make the final margin 9-0 and complete a weekend sweep.
Salmon and Russ Boyd led the offense with a pair of hits apiece, while five other Majors added a hit in the win. LaGrange threw 10 pitchers during the game and were held to just four hits in a 3-hour, non-conference affair.
Millsaps continues its 8-game road swing this weekend with a pair of games in Memphis, Tenn., against host Rhodes College and Wabash University (Ind.). They'll be back at home Wednesday, March 12, for a single game against Huntingdon College at 6 p.m.
