MONTGOMERY,AL- The Millsaps Majors used a four-run third inning to win their 2014 opener, 4-1 over the Randolph-Macon Yellowjackets at Huntingdon College. 

Smokey Ethridge won his Millsaps' debut, going five innings, scattering four hits and three walks while striking out three. The junior college transfer rebounded nicely after allowing a home run to start the bottom of the first. 

Seniors Zander Romano and Zack Snider combined for four innings of shutout, three-hit relief. Romano struck out two while walking two, and Snider got the save, getting the last seven outs. 

The bats were quiet for the first two innings as the Majors managed just a pair of walks, only to see Isaac Glenn and William Chenoweth get caught stealing to end each of the first two innings. Samuel Doucet and Annon Etheridge got the sticks working in the third. Doucet singled and went to second on the Etheridge walk. Stephen Gates singled home Doucet, moving Etheridge to third and came into score on a Keith Shumaker single one batter later. 

Isaac Glenn loaded the bases with a single and both Shumaker and Gates scored on a fielder's choice off the bat of Blake Littlejohn. Shumaker came into score after the ball was thrown off of Glenn as the Yellowjackets tried to turn a double play. 

Ethridge, Romano and Snider went to work, quieting the Yellowjacket bats. Randolph-Macon only put more than one runner one twice in the last five innings, never getting a runner past second base. Snider ended the Jackets' biggest threat when he came into the game with two on and two out in the seventh. He induced an inning-ending ground ball to end the threat, the Yellowjackets managed just a lone single the rest of the way. 

The Majors sit at 1-0 on the young season, while Randolph-Macon sits at 0-2. Millsaps takes on the host school, the Huntingdon Hawks tomorrow afternoon at 5pm.