Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
JACKSON – After splitting yesterday's doubleheader, the Millsaps College softball team swept Saturday's series finale with visiting Southwestern University by scores of 4-3 and 7-1 to take sole possession of first place in the SCAC West Division.
Millsaps has now won 10 of its last 12 games and improves to 13-9 overall and 6-2 in the SCAC while taking three of four games from Southwestern over the weekend.
The Majors jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when \#Jennifer McKinley\#, \#Josie Matthews\# and \#Megan Yglesias\# recorded three straight singles with two outs.
Continuing to score with two outs, Millsaps added three runs in the second for a 4-0 advantage.
After the first two batters failed to reach base, the Majors took advantage of three walks and a fielding error in the inning while McKinley drove home two with a double to right center.
\#LeAnn Williams\# scored later in the second on a wild pitch for the third run of the inning.
The Pirates responded by cutting the deficit in half with two runs in the top of the third on RBI hits from Haley Hughes and Kaitlyn Pavlicek.
Southwestern scored again in the sixth to come within one but that was all the closer it would get as starter \#Kasey Thibodeaux\# and the rest of the Majors held on for the 4-3 victory.
Thibodeaux earned the complete game victory allowing two runs on nine hits while Lyndsy Maus took the loss throwing one inning allowing one earned run.
Game two opened with the Majors jumping out to another early 3-0 lead with three straight singles by the same trio as game one, McKinley, Matthews and Yglesias.
\#Morgan Ladner\# added a sacrifice fly as Millsaps ended the first inning with the lead.
Leading off the bottom of the second, \#Amanda Berry\# singled through the left side of the infield before moving to second base on a sacrifice bunt by \#Brooke Lee\#.
\#LeAnn Williams\# brought Berry home with an RBI single as the Majors built a 4-0 lead through two innings.
Millsaps continued to swing the bat with authority scoring two runs in the third, both coming off a single by Berry, for a comfortable 6-0 advantage.
Looking to close out the game in the sixth, the Majors left the bases loaded but were able to score one run when Matthews singled-home \#Emily Spicer\# to take a 7-0 lead into the final inning.
The Pirates were able to take advantage of a Millsaps error in the top of the seventh to get on the scoreboard but it was too little, too late as the Majors secured the conference win, 7-1.
\#Brittney McAllister\# pitched the final two innings in relief of Thibodeaux, who recorded her fifth straight victory and sixth win in her last seven starts to improve to 10-6 on the season.
Thibodeaux threw five innings of shutout softball scattering just two hits, both off the bat of Blaire Wallace.
Millsaps finished the day with 19 hits led by McKinley who went 6-for-7 from the plate with two doubles and two RBIs.
The Majors will return to action when they travel to Livingston, Ala., for a doubleheader with the University of West Alabama beginning at 4 p.m.
