JACKSON, MS- The Millsaps Majors came back to win game one 6-5 on Saturday before finishing off a sweep of #19 Rhodes 7-2 in the night cap.
GAME ONE BOX
The Majors erased a 5-0 seventh-inning Lynx lead in game one to pull out the victory. Millsaps scored four in the seventh, then one each in the eighth and ninth to win it on a walk-off wild pitch that scored Logan Patterson.
Rhodes scored a pair in the first inning of starter Smokey Ethridge using a groundout and a single to push two runs across the board.
The Majors would have chances before the comeback but a double play ended the second inning and a strike out left the bases loaded in the fourth. A run-scoring single in the sixth made it 3-0 and a two-run double in the seventh off Ethridge made it 5-0.
The four-run seventh was started by a Andrew Rafferty double. He scored on an error by the second baseman off the bat of William Chenoweth. A walk and hit batter then loaded the bases leading to a Logan Patterson single that scored Chenoweth. Gates was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force in a run and a Keith Shumaker sac fly capped off the four-run frame. Chenoweth would strike again in the eighth, rapping a double to score Seth Trulock. That set up the ninth-inning heroics.
The win went to Hunter Johns, the freshman threw two hitless innings of relief, striking out two and walking one to get his first collegiate win. The Majors moved to 15-15 and 5-8 in the SAA with the victory.
In game two, the Majors belted out 12 hits in the 7-2 win as West Hammond went the final four-plus innings to get the win and cap the Saturday sweep.
Rhodes grabbed the early lead, scoring a run in the second on a wild pitch. Millsaps countered with a three-run second highlighted by a Blake Littlejohn rbi single and a Keith Shumaker two-run double.
An unearned run made it 3-2 as the Lynx capitalized on an error by pitcher Nathan Harrell. Again the Majors had an answer, scoring a pair of runs. Chenoweth doubled down the left field line to score Rafferty and JT Blair brought home the junior on a ground out.
Millsaps poured it on in the fifth as Chenoweth tripled, putting him a home run short of the cycle to score Samuel Doucet. Chenoweth scored on a single from Littlejohn to make it 7-2.
The win puts the Majors at 16-15 and 6-8 in the SAA. The Majors head to Clinton on Tuesday to take on the Mississippi College Choctaws before hosting Sewanee next weekend. First pitch on Tuesday is set for 5pm.
