Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

JACKSON – After delaying its season-opener another week, the Millsaps College softball team opened the 2010 season on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the Millsaps Softball Complex but dropped both games in a non-conference doubleheader with perennial power Louisiana College.

The Majors (0-2 overall) struggled to find their bats today generating only 10 hits and five runs in the two games.

Game one started as a pitcher's duel with each team's ace shutting down their opponents as the game remained scoreless through three innings.

Millsaps' \#Kasey Thibodeaux\# stranded three runners in the top of the third after allowing back-to-back singles to start the inning.

Mary Alice Roy advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt and Jodi Montagnino walked to load the bases before Thibodeaux struck out Leslie Eastham and got Ashleigh Clement to ground out to end the threat and keep the game tied 0-0.

Millsaps got its first hit of the ballgame in the bottom of the third when \#Laura Litton\# kept her at-bat alive after a dropped foul ball and doubled to the fence in center field.

Rene' Schwartzenburg recorded one of her game-high 12 strikeouts by fanning \#Emily Spicer\# to strand Litton at second base.

The Lady Wildcats broke things open in the fourth inning with four runs coming off four hits and two Millsaps errors to take a 4-0 lead.

LC added three runs in the seventh inning before the Majors finally got to Schwartzenburg in the bottom half of the inning scoring two runs on three hits.

\#Megan Yglesias\# and \#Morgan Ladner\# recorded the RBIs for Millsaps but it was not enough as the Lady Wildcats closed out game one, 7-2.

\#Brittney McAllister\# got the start for Millsaps in the second game and gave up two unearned runs in the first inning as the Major defense committed two more errors.

Millsaps would rebound from the early deficit by scoring three runs in the bottom of the second with one swing of the bat from Litton, who belted her first home run of the season.

The Lady Wildcats quickly tied the score 3-3 when Aimee Dubroc doubled home Montagnino in the third and took a 6-3 lead in the fourth inning with two hits and another Major error.

LC brought in relief pitcher Carli Wheeler in the bottom of the fourth and she proceeded to shut down the Millsaps hitters allowing only one hit in her four innings of work as she recorded her first win of the season.

After adding three more insurance runs in the sixth inning, the Lady Wildcats cruised to the victory in game two of the doubleheader, 9-3 to improve to 2-0 on the season.

McAllister took the loss for the Majors pitching a complete game while allowing all nine runs –five earned – to go with 10 hits and eight walks.

On the day, Louisiana College left 22 runners on the bases while Millsaps stranded only five runners.

The Majors will be back in action Sunday afternoon with a doubleheader against Division II Christian Brothers University beginning at 12 p.m.