Montgomery, Ala. – The Millsaps Majors Baseball Team took a mid day trip to Huntingdon College to take on the Hawks. In what was a great pitching duel between Will Elmore and John Rice, the Hawks scratched a run across the board in the eighth and held off the Majors in the ninth to take the 2-1 win on Tuesday afternoon.
 
The Majors opened the game up with a single by junior Stephen Gates followed by a walk issued to senior Jules Roussel. Rice was able to get the next two batters out before senior Andrew Evans came through with a RBI single to right center to give Millsaps a 1-0 lead.
 
Elmore put the Hawks down in the first two innings, but Huntingdon got a run back in the top of the third when leadoff hitter Trey Smith homered to right center to tie the game at one. On that play, Roussel came up with an injury to his leg, which has been identified as a strain muscle.
 
The Majors got men in scoring position in the fourth and seventh, but could not get the key hit to push the run across.
 
Huntingdon came through in the bottom half of the eighth as they pushed the go ahead run across due to a fielding error.
 
Elmore was terrific as he went 7.1 innings while giving up on earned run off eight hits and struck out seven. He took the loss for Millsaps to fall to 0-1. Parker Adams took the win for the Hawks while Tyler Spivey notched the save.
 
Millsaps struggled offensively as they only got four hits on the day and the lone RBI from Evans. With the loss, Millsaps falls to 5-2 overall.
 
The Majors head to Atlanta on Saturday to take on York College on the campus of Emory at 11 a.m. They will then pack up and head down to LaGrange following that game to take on the Panthers at 5 p.m.