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Douglas, Majors Complete Series Sweep of Centre

• Game 1 Box Score
• Game 2 Box Score

JACKSON -- Behind an afternoon-high four RBIs from senior \#Erica Douglas\# and a stellar relief appearance from junior \#Amanda Bintz\# in the circle in Game 1, Millsaps completed a four-game season series sweep with a pair of 6-4, 11-3 victories on Sunday afternoon.

With the wins, Millsaps moved to 11-12 overall and evened its record to 4-4 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play, while Centre dropped to 4-16 and 0-8 in the league.

In the opening game of the afternoon, the Majors took an early 3-0 lead in the second inning, rallying for all three runs after two quick outs to start the frame.  \#Katherine Nicholas\# drove in Douglas after drawing a walk, followed by a a two-RBI single to left from \#Jennifer McKinley\#.

Centre quickly responded with four runs its ensuing at-bat in the third to take a 4-3 lead, sending eight batters to the plate and taking advantage of three wild pitches.  Elizabeth Ensminger grabbed one of five Colonel singles in the inning after a leadoff strikeout and later scored off a wild pitch.  Following another wild pitch that scored Regina Sena, Cailynn West capped the four-run inning with a two-RBI single down the rightfield line.

Millsaps knotted it at 4-4 in the bottom half of the third, using a two-out, RBI-double from \#Jenny Laird\# to score \#Tiffany Ladnier\# from second after a leadoff walk.  The Majors would go on to add single runs in the fourth and fifth to come away with a 6-4 victory.

Bintz, who relieved \#Brittney McAllister\# with the score tied in the fourth, allowed just one hit the final 4.0 innings while striking out two to earn her second win of the year.  Catelyn Teague was tagged with the loss after allowing all six runs.

In the weekend finale, Millsaps scored 11 runs off 12 hits and capitalized off five Colonel errors to earn an 11-3 run-rule victory in six innings.

Centre scored the first three runs of the game, a single run in the first and two in the second, before the Majors fired back with 11 unanswered runs the final six innings, including five in the third.

Back-to-back doubles from \#Karoline Kremers\# and \#Kasey Thibodeaux\# to leadoff the third chased the Centre starter, Jess Jowers, and jumpstarted eight consecutive batters that reached base.  Following a sac bunt from \#Jade Hewitt\#, \#Allison Tarbox\#'s RBI-single through the left side gave the Majors' their first lead of the game at 4-3 and they never looked back.

Thibodeaux, who surrendered three runs off four Colonel hits in the first two innings, settled in to pitch a steady game in the circle the final four.  The junior scattered just four hits the rest of the way and no runs as she wrapped up her 10th complete game of the year in moving to 5-6 overall.  In addition, Thibodeaux picked up a game-high three hits (3-for-4) and scored three runs.

Centre was paced by Charlotte Jones and Rebecca Rhule who both went 2-for-3.

Millsaps will hit the road for its next eight games, traveling to SCAC opponents Rhodes College (21-3, 8-0 SCAC) April 4-5 and Birmingham-Southern (21-3) on April 9-10.  Both schools will offer live stats for the games, while Rhodes will offer live video (depending on weather/student workers available).
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