Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
JACKSON – On a perfect Saturday afternoon at Twenty Field, the Millsaps College baseball team swept a SCAC doubleheader with visiting Southwestern University by rallying for four runs in the final inning of game one for a 6-5 win before holding on to a late lead and taking the second game, 16-13.
The Majors got on the scoreboard first in the opening game when \#Jake Mills\# hit a line-drive single before \#Jason Riggins\# hit his third home run of the season to put Millsaps ahead 2-0.
\#Aaron Williams\# made his tenth start of the season for the Majors and continued his excellent pitching this season cruising through the first four innings allowing only one hit.
Williams ran into trouble in the top of the fifth as the Pirates got a solo home run by Chris Lowry to cut the deficit in half, 2-1.
Southwestern added three more singles to load the bases and Nate Shipp evened the score 2-2 with an RBI groundout.
After giving up two early runs, the Pirates' starting pitcher Chris Webber settled down over the next three innings retiring nine of the 10 Millsaps hitters he faced.
In the top of the seventh and final inning, Southwestern rallied to take a three-run lead as Williams and \#Boomer Hudson\# combined to allow the three runs.
Facing defeat in the bottom half of the inning, Mills reached first after a hard-fought walk before \#Trey Rountree\# doubled in the right-center gap to bring him around to score.
Now behind 5-3, \#Wes Perkins\# brought home Rountree with a pinch-hit single up the middle to bring the Majors within one, 5-4.
A walk to \#Ryan Zemke\# followed by \#Jules Roussel\# being hit by a pitch loaded the bases with two outs for \#Will Hawkins\#.
Hawkins walked bringing home \#Jordan Nolan\# who entered as a pinch runner for Perkins earlier in the inning to even the score 5-5.
With the winning run on third, \#Tyler Berry\# walked scoring Zemke to give Millsaps a 6-5 walk-off win.
The Majors took advantage of four walks and a hit batter in the seventh for yet another come-from-behind victory.
Hudson improved to 4-3 on the year earning the win in relief while Kyle Belski took the loss for the Pirates.
Starting game two of the conference doubleheader, \#Jeremy Aliff\# put Millsaps in front 1-0 with a lead-off solo home run in the bottom of the first inning.
The Majors added another run in the second when \#Drew Leonard\# hit a sacrifice fly scoring Berry for a 2-0 advantage.
Southwestern cut the Millsaps lead in half in the third when Matthew Clark hit a sacrifice fly off starter \#Shelby Robertson\#.
Berry hit an RBI double in the third and the Majors added two more in the fourth when Aliff doubled home Rountree and Leonard for a 5-1 advantage.
The Pirates hit their way back into the game scoring two runs on three hits in the top of the fifth to close the gap to 5-3.
Millsaps took advantage of three walks, a hit-by-pitch and two errors by the Pirates' third baseman en route to the five-run fifth inning to take a commanding 10-3 lead.
Southwestern would not give up easily getting an RBI single off Robertson forcing the Majors to turn to the bullpen.
\#Andrew Pearce\# entered and gave up two hits as the Pirates scored twice before Millsaps recorded an out in the sixth but \#John Marshall Pemberton\# came to the rescue by getting the next three batters to ground out as the Majors got out of the inning with a 10-7 lead.
After Millsaps scored one in the bottom of the sixth, Southwestern used a balk by Pemberton followed by an RBI double to get two runs back in the seventh.
A three-run triple off the bat of Riggins highlighted another five-run inning for the Majors in the bottom of the seventh as they built a 16-9 advantage.
The Pirates attempt at a comeback feel short despite scoring two in the eighth and one in the ninth as Millsaps held on for the 16-13 victory to sweep the doubleheader.
Robertson picked up the win throwing five innings allowing five runs on eight hits to move to 4-2 on the year.
The Majors, now 22-11 overall and 11-5 in the SCAC, will face Southwestern Sunday afternoon in the series-finale beginning at 1 p.m.
