JACKSON – The Millsaps Majors Volleyball team completed on the final day of the Millsaps Invitational Saturday afternoon  in front of their home crowd. The Majors went on to fall in four sets to a red hot Spring Hill team in a highly contested match before coming back to defeat arch rival Mississippi College in straight sets.

In the first game against the Badgers (6-0), junior middle blocker Kasey Laird was electric as she tallied 18 kills and 18 digs throughout the match.  The Majors (3-2) dropped the first match 25-22, but fought back to take set two thanks to Laird. It was the first set that Spring Hill dropped this season. Millsaps continued to give Spring Hill all they could handle, but Yiting Cao's 25 kills and 36 digs proved to be too much as they took the next two sets 25-22 and 30-28.

Junior Raven Scott added 14 kills and 22 assists while freshman Taylor Zeigler added 17 assists. Senior Maggie Tumminello and sophomore Leanne Gilder added 18 digs a piece.

Millsaps returned later that afternoon to take on the Choctaws (1-4) and wasted no time, growing stronger in each set. The Majors went on to sweep the Choctaws 25-22, 25-18, and 25-15. Millsaps was led by Tumminello with 10 kills while Laird added eight.  Zeigler added 18 assists.

The Majors return to the court on September 9 as they travel to Memphis for the Rhodes Invitational. On day one, they will take Ripon College at 4 p.m. and then Principia College at 8 p.m. The following day, Millsaps will take on Belhaven at 1 p.m. and Augustana at 5 p.m.