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Sunday Setback at Trinity Snaps 13-Game Winning Streak

• Box Score (Saturday)
• Box Score (Sunday)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Senior standout Evan Bronson threw a complete-game, three-hitter for Trinity with 10 strikeouts and Jordan Pennington and Evan Jones both hit home runs as the Tigers salvaged a two-game weekend split at E.M Stevens Field on Sunday with a 3-2 victory.

In the series opener on Saturday, senior southpaw \#Tait Hendrix\# had his best outing of the season with 6.0 innings of scoreless ball and four strikeouts as Millsaps run-ruled TU 10-0 in seven innings for its 13th-straight win.  Hendrix surrendered just three hits, while \#Boomer Hudson\# tossed the final inning and gave up just one.

Millsaps plated a single run in the first for an early lead, using a leadoff single from \#Jeremy Aliff\# and scoring him three batters later off a \#Will Hawkins\# RBI-single through the left side.

A pair of runs in the third and fifth innings stretched the lead to 5-0 after five, as the Majors took advantage of RBIs from \#Hunter Owen\# off a sac fly and RBI-double and another RBI-single from Hawkins.  

A five-run sixth inning for Millsaps did the Tigers in, as \#Billy Murphy\# led off the inning with a walk and the ensuing four batters reached safely.  \#Hayes Brian\#'s RBI-single scored the first run, while Aliff, Owen and \#Josh Ordeneaux\# each picked up the following runs.

Trinity managed just four hits against three errors in the game, getting two hits from the leadoff batter Kevin Jackson who was 2-for-3 on the afternoon.  Sophomore Michael Panozzo was tagged with his first loss of the year on the mound as he fell to 3-1.

In Sunday's finale in San Antonio, aces \#Aaron Williams\# for Millsaps and Evan Bronson for Trinity battled it out on the hill in a hard-fought win for the Tigers at home.  Bronson evened his record to 2-2 on the year after a 10 strikeout performance that included retiring the final 10 batters he faced.

The teams were scoreless through the first 3 1/2 until Trinity found the scoreboard in the fourth with a Pennington solo home run to rightfield.  The Tigers stretched the lead to 2-0 an inning later after a Kyle Felix RBI-double to left scored Dylan Early.

Millsaps (19-2, 8-2 SCAC) knotted the game at 2-2 in the sixth with a pair of runs, taking advantage of back-to-back walks to leadoff the inning and scoring them later in the frame.  Brian moved to third on a \#Russ Boyd\# flyout and scored minutes later on an error from the catcher.  Two batters later with two outs, Hawkins drove in Aliff after the speedster stole his 11th base in 11 tries to get in scoring position.

Trinity (9-13, 4-4 SCAC) found the go-ahead run in the seventh to put Millsaps away, getting a solo home run from Jones to leadoff the inning that proved to be the game-winner.

The Tigers committed three errors for a second consecutive day but had the big hits to back up the mistakes.  With the win, they moved into a three-way tie for second in the very competitve SCAC West at 4-4.

Both Owen and Hawkins stretched their career-long hitting streaks to 17 and 16 games, while Owen moved into a tie for fourth with Hunter Abrams on Millsaps' all-time doubles list with the 49th of his career.

Millsaps will host 16th-ranked Illinois Wesleyan (4-3) in a non-conference game on Tuesday before hitting the road for back-to-back conference series at Hendrix and Austin College.  Jeff Mitchell, former Millsaps SID and current Assistant AD at Santa Clara University, will handle play-by-play duties for Tuesday's game.
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