MEMPHIS – The Millsaps Majors offense came through with 14 runs on 15 hits this afternoon at Rhodes College, defeating the Lynx 14-11 on the road.

Both teams scored early and often in the game. Millsaps (21-11) got three in the first off one hit, a Jeremy Aliff double to center in leadoff. Two walks, a hit batter, a wild pitch and a sac fly plated the runs to give the Majors the early advantage.

Rhodes (15-16) jumped out in the home half of the first for six hits and took advantage of two Millsaps errors to take a 6-3 lead on nothing more explosive than a double. John Marshall Pemberton settled down from there, giving up just one more hit in three and a third, coming out in the fifth inning.

The Majors did their biggest piece of business in the top of the fourth, scoring five on two hits. Kevin Wall took a ball to the torso in the leadoff spot to get on for Drew Leonard. Leonard got a shot down the left field line to advance to second with Wall sitting at third. The Lynx hit Jules Roussel as well to load the bases for Will Hawkins.

Hawkins scored the first two runs of the frame with a double down the left field line to plate Wall and Leonard. Jake Mills walked to reload the bases and Josh Ordeneaux brought in the third run after becoming the third Major in the inning to reach after being hit by a pitch. Stephen Gates drew a walk to plate the fourth run. That closed the book on Rhodes' starter, Jackson Baker. Wes Perkins got a sac fly off the new pitcher, Strother White, to score Mills from third for the final run of the inning to put the Majors up 8-6.

The two teams level-pegged each other in the fifth with one run each and the seventh with two runs to put the score at 11-9 Majors going into the eighth. Leonard drove in Perkins in the top of the inning with a single to left to give the Majors a three-run cushion for the last two Lynx at-bats.

Rhodes managed to get two back in the bottom of the eighth off Brandon Robinson thanks to a pair of doubles with two outs before the final out came off a pop fly to right center. The Majors responded again, however, in their final trip to the plate with two more in the top of the ninth. Roussel doubled to lead the inning and came home thanks to a Mills sac fly. Stephen Gates brought in Will Hawkins two batters later with a successful bunt to the pitcher.

Robinson shut the Lynx down in the bottom of the ninth to seal the win with two strikeouts and a pop fly to end the game. Andrew Pearce got the win after coming in in the fifth for Pemberton. Robinson got the save for his efforts in the eighth and ninth.

The Majors will return to Twenty Field tomorrow evening for another non-conference game against an East Division opponent as they host the division-leading Birmingham-Southern Panthers in a 6:00 p.m. matchup.