LAGRANGE, Ga. – The Millsaps College baseball team traveled to LaGrange College for a doubleheader Friday afternoon and after claiming the opening game 5-2, dropped the finale 7-4 to even the day.

\#Jeremy Aliff\# opened game one with a triple to right center before \#Will Hawkins\# brought him home with a fielder's choice as the Majors took a 1-0 lead after the first inning.

Millsaps scored again in the second as \#Drew Leonard\# singled-home \#Trey Rountree\# for a 2-0 advantage.

The Majors made the Panthers pay for an error by scoring two more runs in the third with \#Jake Mills\# and \#Jason Riggins\# recording the RBIs.

LaGrange cut into the 4-0 lead with one run in the bottom of the third and another in the bottom of the fourth off starting pitcher \#Aaron Williams\#.

Williams allowed only the two runs –one earned— on five hits pitching 7 1/3 innings to earn the victory, his sixth straight to open the season.

Rountree added an RBI single in the eighth as the Majors maintained a 5-2 lead and \#Boomer Hudson\# came in relief and held the Panthers hitless in the final 1 2/3 innings to record his fourth save of the year.

Seven of the nine Millsaps starters recorded a hit in the opening game.

Game two began with three straight singles for Millsaps as Aliff, \#Josh Ordeneaux\# and Hawkins loaded the bases for \#Jules Roussel\#.

Roussel grounded into a double play but Aliff was able to score on the play and \#Tyler Berry\# followed with an RBI single as the Majors claimed a 2-0 lead in the first inning.

LaGrange would cut the deficit in half with a run in the bottom of the third off starter \#Shelby Robertson\# and eventually even the score 2-2 in the fifth.

In the bottom of the eighth, the Panthers exploded for five runs to take a commanding 7-2 lead.

Robbie Shelton started the inning with a solo home run and two of the next three batters reached forcing head coach Jim Page to turn to Mills out of the bullpen.

Mills faced three batters, all of which reached base and Hawkins relieved him only to walk the one batter he faced.

\#Elliot Varney\# came and got the final two outs but the damage had already been done.

Millsaps was able to get two back in the bottom of the ninth as Rountree walked and \#Ryan Zemke\# was hit by a pitch, both with the bases loaded to close the gap but LaGrange held on for the 7-4 victory.

Robertson took the loss for the Majors and falls to 3-2 on the season despite pitching a quality outing allowing five runs –four earned—on nine hits in 7 1/3 innings of work.

Millsaps, now 18-11 overall, will face LaGrange Saturday in the rubber match of the three-game series with the first pitch scheduled for 11 a.m.