CONWAY, AR- The Millsaps Majors couldn't find any seventh inning magic on Sunday, falling 7-2 and 7-5 to the Hendrix Warriors on Sunday in Conway, Arkansas.
Game One BOX
In game one, Tiffany Havard slugged a two-run home run but the Warriors plated five in the fifth inning in a 7-2 win. In the first inning, the Majors loaded the bases with one out on a pair of singles and one of six Warrior errors. But the Majors couldn't cross the plate after a strike out and fly out.
The Warriors scored the game's first run in the third as pitcher Kayla Patton helped her own cause with a run-scoring single. After a quiet fourth, Hendrix broke the game open with their five-run fifth. After getting the first two out, the next seven Warriors reached base on three singles, two walks and two doubles off Blakeli Entremont and Molly Tyner.
Havard homered in the sixth to make it a 6-2 ball game, but Hendrix answered with a single tally in the bottom of the sixth. The Majors would get two runners on in the seventh, but a fielder's choice and ground out ended the threat as Hendrix grabbed game one.
In game two, a four-run Warrior third proved to be the difference in a 7-5 Hendrix victory. The Warriors scored first, with a single tally in the first inning after the Majors stranded two in the top half of the frame. A hit batter, sacrifice and single brought across the first run but Abbie Joiner caught Shleby Anderson off first, creating a run down and getting a key second out to help Katie Birdwell out of the inning.
The Majors grabbed a 2-1 lead in the third after Megan Murray blasted a home run over the center field wall to score herself and Abbie Joiner. Hendrix answered with a four run bottom of the third. Two doubles, an error and a single fueled the inning as Hendrix surged back ahead 5-2.
Caroline Thompson doubled home Casey Brown in the fourth to make it 5-3 but Thompson could move no further than second in the inning. Again Hendrix had an answer, scoring twice more in the bottom of the frame on three straight two-out singles including one that plated the two runs.
Millsaps got out of a bases loaded situation in the bottom of the sixth, setting up a do-or-die seventh down 7-3. Rayne Gravat singled home Murray who had doubled to make it 7-4. After Savannah Havard reached on a fielder's choice, she was brought home on a Tiffany Havard double to make it 7-5. However, a Katelyn Murray flyout ended the threat and the game.
The losses drop the Majors to 9-2 overall on the season and 2-2 in SAA play. They have a single, non-conference home game against the Mississippi College Choctaws slated for Tuesday. First pitch from Jackson is set for 1pm.
