SHREVEPORT,LA- The Millsaps Majors picked up another pair of non-conference wins on Wednesday with two run-rule wins over the Centenary Ladies.
The Majors improved to 11-2 with 12-2 and 14-5 victories over Centenary.
GAME ONE BOX
In game one, the Majors pounded out 15 hits in support of Blakeli Entremont who picked up her sixth win of the season in seven decisions.
The Majors wasted no time, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. After Caroline Thompson was caught stealing, Abbie Joiner singled and Megan Murray drove home Joiner on a single and two-base error. The middle of the order kept rolling with Savannah Havard driving home Murray and Rayne Gravat homering over the right field wall to make it 4-0.
Joiner struck again in the second, singling home Casey Brown to make it 5-0. The Majors blew the game open in the third, with a five-run inning. After Rayner LeBlanc reached on a fielder's choice, Caroline Thompson singled home LeBlanc and Hannah Doggett to make it 7-0. Abbie Joiner walked putting two on for Megan Murray, who cleared the bases with a three-run homer over the left field wall to make it a 10-0 ball game.
Millsaps scored twice more in the fourth on a Katelyn Murray single and an illegal pitch. Centenary scored single tallies in the third and the fifth but couldn't avoid the five-inning run rule. Entremont went the distance for the win, scattering four hits and two earned runs while walking one and striking out one.
In game two, the Majors rapped out 18 hits in a 14-5 victory in support of seniors Molly Tyner and Katie Birdwell.
Again the Majors jumped on Centenary early with a four-run first. Megan Murray singled home Caroline Thompson who doubled and scored on a Savannah Havard double. Katelyn Murray and Rayner LeBlanc each singled who runs as the Majors took a 4-0 lead.
Tyner shut down the Ladies in the first and second and got more run support in each inning. The Majors put Thompson and Megan Murray on for Gravat. Gravat singled and Savannah Havard doubled to score two more runs for a 6-0 lead. Rayner LeBlanc scored the Majors' single tally in the third, coming home on an illegal pitch.
After a quiet fourth and fifth the two teams combined for a 12-run sixth with the Majors scoring seven times. The Majors knocked out seven hits in the seven run frame as Katelyn Murray, Kat Romero, Casey Brown and Rayne Gravat all had rbi hits. It was 14-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth when Centenary score five times. The big blow was a three-run home run but an error made all but two of the runs unearned.
The Majors were able to close out the Ladies in the sixth to move to 11-2. Tyner moved to 2-0 on the season with five and a third innings of seven-hit ball. Tyner was charged with two earned runs, walked two and struck out two. Birdwell came in to get the final two outs, including a strike out.
The Majors will head back to Jackson for a key four-game set with the Birmingham Southern Panthers. First pitch for a double header on Saturday is set for noon.
