• Official Stats (Game 1)
• Official Stats (Game 2)

LONGVIEW, Texas -- Senior outfielder \#Tiffany Ladnier\# went 4-for-7 on the afternoon with four runs scored and sophomore \#Karoline Kremers\# extended a career-long, 9-game hitting streak as Millsaps split a doubleheader on Tuesday at Lear Park.

Millsaps (7-8) needed some late inning heroics to win the opening game against familiar conference foe, Austin College, rallying for two runs in the bottom of the seventh thanks to three wild pitches and the winning RBI-single from Kremers.

The Majors trailed 5-2 after two but pulled to within 5-4 in the third, using back-to-back RBIs from \#Allison Tarbox\# on a groundout and \#Jade Hewitt\# on a single to right.

\#Amanda Bintz\# relieved \#Brittney McAllister\# in the circle to start the fourth, after McAllister was tagged with five runs on nine hits, and pitched an outstanding four innings to close the game for her first win as a Major.  Bintz retired the first 11 batters she faced and allowed just one hit, a double in the seventh.

In the nightcap against 4th-ranked Texas-Tyler, the Patriots used a four-run fourth inning to stretch an early 3-0 lead and held the Majors to single runs in the fifth and sixth for an eventual 7-2 win.

UT-Tyler (12-1) opened its half of the first with a leadoff home run from senior Roo Richardson and never looked back.  The Patriots would plate two more runs in the third off another home run, a two-run shot from Whitney Wyly, and four more in the fourth.

Millsaps was held in check by Kelsey Ainsworth who scattered just two hits through the first four innings before the Majors got the bats working late.  A leadoff single from Tarbox, followed by a \#Jenny Laird\# double put the Majors in good position in the fifth but they fell victim to a double play and popup to end the threat with just one run off \#Laura Litton\#'s two-out, RBI-single.

Millsaps put the first three runners on base in the sixth and scored off an RBI-single from Kremers but again stranded runners off a double play, this time from centerfield to the plate as \#Katherine Nicholas\# was out at home.  A popup ended the inning.

Ainsworth moved to 6-1 in the circle in five innings of work, while \#Kasey Thibodeaux\# was tagged with her first loss in four starts.

Ladnier, Litton and \#Jennifer McKinley\# each had two hits for Millsaps in the loss.

The Majors will play their next eight games at home, welcoming 7th-ranked DePauw University to town this weekend followed by Centre College March 28-29.