Box Score
LAGRANGE, Ga. – Trailing 8-4 heading into the ninth inning, the Millsaps College baseball team rallied to score 11 runs in the final inning to come away with the series-clinching victory Saturday afternoon at LaGrange College, 15-8.
The Majors recorded 11 hits in the inning and finished with a total of 22 in the game.
LaGrange claimed an early 3-0 lead through two complete innings scoring all three off starter \#Wes Perkins\#.
After being held to zero runs on five hits through the first six innings by the Panthers' starter Robby Williams, Millsaps scored four times in the seventh to take a 4-3 lead.
The Panthers would not go down easily as they tagged the Majors' bullpen for five runs in the bottom of the eighth to reclaim an 8-4 advantage heading into the final inning.
In the ninth, the first five batters reached base safely for Millsaps as the team pounded out 11 hits and sent 16 batters to the plate while rallying for 11 runs to earn the win, 15-8.
\#Jules Roussel\# led the Majors on the day going 5-for-6 with five RBIs on three doubles while six other Millsaps players finished with multi-hit games.
\#Matt Conn\# picked up his first collegiate victory recording just one out in the eighth inning in relief.
The Majors, now 19-11 overall, will return to Jackson for a non-conference game with Huntingdon College on Tuesday starting at 4 p.m.