• Official Stats

JACKSON -- Senior \#Tait Hendrix\#'s pinch-hit, two-run home run helped jumpstart a four-run sixth inning for Millsaps as they rallied for their eighth come-from-behind win on Tuesday night in a 5-3 victory over visiting Illinois Wesleyan University at Twenty Field.

Both teams combined to throw 17 pitchers by committee, with \#John Marshall Pemberton\# coming away with his first win of the year for Millsaps and Kevin Sullivan drawing his first loss for IWU.  In addition, senior \#Drew Maddox\# picked up his fourth save of the year in moving into first all-time at Millsaps with 11 for his career.

IWU (4-4) took advantage of two Millsaps errors to plate a pair of runs in the second, scoring its first run off an errant throw from catcher \#Russ Boyd\# and their second off a perfectly executed double steal at second and home.  Both runs came with two outs.

\#Will Hawkin\#s' solo home run to straight-away center in the fourth brought the Majors within a run at 2-1 and helped extend a career-long, 17-game hitting streak before the Titans responded in the sixth with a single run off another Millsaps error to stretch the lead to 3-1.

A leadoff walk surrendered to \#Hunter Owen\# in the bottom of the sixth helped the Majors put the game-tying run at the plate in Hawkins, as the sophomore delivered a triple to right-center after falling behind in the count 0-2 and scored Owen from first.  Two batters later, on the first pitch he saw, Hendrix sent a bomb over the right centerfield wall to give Millsaps its first lead at 4-3.  \#Jeremy Aliff\# capped a four-run inning with a RBI bunt single down the leftfield line.

Neither team scored the final three innings and Millsaps escaped runners on second and third with one out in the seventh to secure its 11th home win in 12 tries this year.

Both Hawkins and Aliff had a pair of hits to lead the Majors, while Mike Morrissey and Bob Huppert added two hits apiece for the visiting Titans.  Huppert also had IWU's lone RBI.

Millsaps will play its next six games on the road, beginning with the final three games of a five-game season series with Hendrix College this weekend in Conway, Ark.