• Official Stats (Game 1)
• Official Stats (Game 2)
JACKSON -- Twelve different Majors picked up at least one hit on the afternoon, backed by freshmen \#Jade Hewitt\# and \#Jenny Laird\# who hit their first collegiate home runs, as Millsaps swept a pair of games from MacMurray College (Ill.) on Monday for its sixth-straight win overall.
Sophomore \#Karoline Kremers\# extended her season-long hitting streak to seven games with a 4-for-5 afternoon, including four runs and four RBIs behind a three-run home run in Game 1 to deep left. \#Allison Tarbox\# and \#Tiffany Ladnier\# followed with 4-for-5 and 4-for-6 afternoons and a combined seven runs scored.
Millsaps (6-7) was in complete control all afternoon long behind hot bats and solid pitching from \#Brittney McAllister\# and \#Kasey Thibodeaux\#. Both pitchers moved to 3-3 on the year with their third consecutive wins.
The Majors combined for 26 runs off 30 hits, including tying a season-high with 17 hits and 15 runs in the nightcap. During its six-game winning streak, Millsaps is outscoring their opponents 61-6 overall.
In the opening game, Millsaps built an insurmountable 8-0 lead after two behind a pair of four-run innings, capitalizing off three MacMurray errors and using RBIs from Kremers, \#Jennifer McKinley\#, Tarbox and \#Laura Litton\#. Kremers' three-run shot to left in the first -- her second home run in as many games -- knocked the Highlanders back on their heels where they could never recover.
MacMurray would plate a pair of runs in the fifth to make the final margin 11-2, behind a two-RBI double from senior Betsy Beard that scored Lee Miller and Rikki Jenkins. The game ended, however, on the same play when Kristin Flahive was thrown out at the plate on a relay from \#Erica Douglas\# to \#Amanda Berry\#.
A pair of six-run first and second innings gave Millsaps a commanding lead in the nightcap, as they cruised to their third-straight run-rule victory. All nine Majors in the starting lineup recorded a hit, in addition to a pinch-hit single from \#Lindsay Drane\# and pinch-hit double from \#Amanda Bintz\# -- both of the ladies' first collegiate hits as a Major.
McKinley bombed her first home run of the season and 13th of her career in the first inning, while Thibodeaux allowed just two hits and two runs (both unearned) in a complete game performance.
The Majors will step back on the diamond this weekend, playing host to the 3rd Annual Millsaps Invitational at Freedom Ridge Park in Ridgeland March 13-15. All six Millsaps games will offer live stats here:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/millsaps/softball/.
