MONTGOMERY, AL- The Millsaps Majors struck for seven runs in the fourth en route to a 16-6 win over the Rhodes Lynx and a sweep through the opening non-conference weekend. 

Daniel Ross struck out eight over five and two-thirds innings to get the win and the offense thumped out 17 hits in the win. 

Six different Majors had multi-hit games led by William Chenoweth and Keith Shumaker who each had three. After a quiet first two innings for both teams, the Majors got on the board in the third. Stephen Gates singled and went to second on a balk. After a Shumaker flyout, Isaac Glenn hammered a double to right field, scoring the senior easily. 

The flood gates opened in the fourth, set up by a Chenoweth double and an Andrew Rafferty walk, each moved up on a double steal. After an Annon Etheridge walk to load the bases, Gates hit a sac fly to score Chenoweth. Shumaker then walked to re-load the bases and singles from Glenn, Blake Littlejohn and Samuel Doucet put a crooked number on the board. Lynx errors began piling up as well, an error allowed two more runs to score off Doucet's single and he scored on an error off the bat of Chenoweth. The Majors struck seven times on four hits and two errors to lead 8-0 after four. 

The hits kept on coming in the fifth, Shumaker singled home Etheridge who had reached on another Rhodes' error to make it 9-0. Rhodes would get to Ross in the fifth, chasing the sophomore from the game after stringing together a two-out, two-run rally. The Majors answered an inning later scoring three more times, the big blow coming from a Shumaker r-b-i triple, the Majors would lead 12-2. 

Rhodes would make it 12-6 after a four-run seventh on the back of a three-run home run off the bat of Walker McWherter. The Majors answered with two in the seventh with rbis from Logan Patterson and Chenoweth and two more in the eighth on a Littlejohn two-rbi single. Chenoweth threw an uneventful ninth to close out the game and send the Majors to 3-0. 

The win went to Daniel Ross who moves to 1-0 on the season while Adam Putnam got the loss, falling to 0-1. The Majors open up their home season and the Maloney Series on Tuesday when they welcome in the Belhaven Blazers. First pitch is set for 4pm.