JACKSON – The Millsaps Majors Softball Team continued their four game series with the Sewanee Tigers on Saturday afternoon as they looked to get the four game sweep in front of their home crowd. Millsaps continued to get great performances in the circle, this time from junior Emily Collins and sophomore Katie Birdwell, and scored at least one run in every inning they hit in today as they took a pair of 11-0 wins over Sewanee in five innings each.
 
Millsaps set the tone early in the bottom of the first. After a single from sophomore Caroline Thompson and a walk issued to sophomore Abbie Joiner, junior Megan Yglesias belted a line shot over the center field fence to give Millsaps a 3-0 lead.
 
The Majors were back at it in the second as Yglesias singled home another run and sophomore Allison Tarbox brought in a run on the sacrifice fly to make it a 6-0 game.
 
Yglesias struck again in the third, this time with the bases loaded, as she nailed another ball to center that just hit below the top of the fence to score two more runs and make it 8-0. Tarbox followed her up with a double to left to make it a 10-0 game. The Majors added the 11th run in the fourth as Thompson reached on a fielder's choice to score a run.
 
All of that didn't make any difference to Collins, who calmly through Millsaps' third straight complete game, two hitter in five innings of work including five strikeouts and no walks issued to pick up her third win of the season.

Yglesias finished her day 3-for-4 with six RBIs and was only a triple short of the cycle. Tarbox added a 1-for-1 day with three RBIs while Thompson, Joiner, and freshman Karen McWilliams both picked up two hits on the day.
 
Millsaps took that momentum into Game Two as the Majors tacked four on in the first inning thanks to two RBIs from McWilliams and RBIs from Yglesias and sophomore Logan Dukes.
 
The Majors added two more in the second thanks to RBIs from Joiner and Tarbox, four more in the third with RBIs coming from senior Jade Hewitt, Thompson, Joiner, and Tarbox, and one in the fifth thanks to sacrifice fly from Hewitt to put 11 on the board for the second straight game.
 
Again, it was all sophomore pitcher Katie Birdwell needed as she cruised to a complete game shutout and improve her record to 3-1. She gave up no runs on three hits while striking out five.
 
Offensively, both Thompson and McWilliams were terrific as they were both 3-for-3 on the afternoon. McWilliams picked up two RBIs while Thompson added one while scoring three times on the afternoon. Joiner added a 2-for-3 day including two RBIs of her own.
 
The Majors improve to 13-17 on the season and are on a five game winning streak. They are also sitting at 8-4 in the SCAC and have a chance to clinch the second seed in the tournament next weekend as they welcome in the Rhodes Lynx for a four game series. First pitch is set for Saturday at 1 p.m.