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CLINTON -- Senior \#Drew Maddox\# set new career highs with 10 strikeouts in 8.0 innings of relief work and senior teammate \#Hayes Brian\# drove in the go-ahead run on a squeeze bunt in the 10th as Millsaps earned a hard-fought, 12-10 victory at Mississippi College Monday night to earn the three-game season sweep.

Millsaps (27-4) outscored the Choctaws (19-13) in the series by a combined 43-17 score, highlighted by a lopsided 20-3 victory in Clinton in mid-February.  The sweep was the second straight for the Majors, who have now won six in-a-row over MC.  

In a game that featured five lead changes and a combined 22 runs off 26 hits, offense was not hard to come by, it was simply holding the lead.

Millsaps took a 3-0 lead with three runs in the first behind a two-RBI double from \#Josh Ordeneaux\# and a sac fly from \#Tony Malaschak\#, only to see the Choctaws tie it in their half with three runs.

Back-to-back singles from \#Billy Murphy\# and \#Tyler Berry\# put the Majors back in business in the second, as \#Hayes Brian\# followed with a fielders' choice RBI to give Millsaps a brief, 4-3 lead.

The Choctaws came right back with two runs in the bottom half of the second to retake the lead at 5-4, using a leadoff double from Dakota Bodree and scoring him two batters later on an RBI-single from Chase Herrin.  Reed Prewitt capped the scoring with a two-out, RBI-double to left to push across the go-ahead run.

After a scoreless third, Millsaps clawed back in front 6-5 on a two-out, two-RBI single from \#Will Hawkins\# in the fourth before MC chimed right back with three runs in its half to jump back in front 8-6.

Three unanswered runs for Millsaps off a bases-loaded, RBI hit-by-pitch in the sixth and RBI-single up the middle from Malaschak in the eighth gave the Majors a 9-8 lead that looked to be enough, however MC knotted it at 9-9 in the bottom of the ninth on a costly error to send the game into extras.

In the 10th, \#Todd Barnthouse\# and the first four batters reached base safely, as Berry's RBI-single through the right side gave the Majors a 10-9 lead and was followed by Brian's sac bunt for a run and \#Hunter Owen\#'s sac fly to stretch the lead to 12-9.

MC pushed across a run in its half off an RBI-groundout to cut it to 12-10, but that's how the game would end as a Bo Bell lineout to centerfield ended the game.

Millsaps moved to 4-0 in extra inning games, while the come-from-behind win marked its 10th of the year.  

Five MC batters had multiple hits, led by Andy Smith who went 3-for-6 in the leadoff spot.  Millsaps was paced by three hits from Hawkins and Berry, as Malaschak had a game-high three RBIs.

The Majors will hit the road Tuesday for a single game at Louisiana College (17-16).  First pitch is set for 4 p.m. at Wildcat Field.