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MAJORS SPLIT WITH LYNX

JACKSON, MS- Rayne Gravat popped two homers including a game-winning walk-off in game two as the Majors earned a split with the Rhodes Lynx on Saturday.

Millsaps dropped game one 12-4 and won game two 4-3 and now sit at 13-5 on the season and 6-5 in conference play. 

Game one Box

In game one, the Majors got down early as Rhodes scored two times in the first and three more in the second. In both frames, the Millsaps' defense committed a costly error that extended the inning. Not one of the five runs that scored were earned. 

Millsaps got on the board in the third with a Gravat home run. Rhodes answered back with three in the fourth and two more in the fifth highlighted by a homer from Allison Long. Kaitlyn Casias parked a three run dinger in the bottom of the fifth to extend the game at make it a 10-4 ball game. 

Rhodes scored two more in the seventh to round out the scoring. Cassidy DeNoon took the loss, in her seven innings she was charged with 13 hits and seven of the 12 runs were earned as the Majors made five errors in the loss. 

Game two was a pitcher's duel between Caroline Reilly and Danielle Faucheux. Both pitchers had little issue in the first two innings. Rhodes scored on a sac fly in the third and the 1-0 lead held until the fifth inning. 

The Majors took their first lead of the day after Megan Murray tied the game with a sac fly and Hannah Doggett brought in Kat Romero with a single. Missy Romero and Kat Romero got the inning going with a hit batter and bunt single. 

Rhodes answered in the top of the sixth with two runs of their own to retake the lead. The Lynx took advantage of a Millsaps' error and used two hits to score in the inning. The Majors returned the favor in the bottom of the inning, scoring an unearned run of their own to tie the game at three. Kat Romero singled home Cassidy Hendrix, who entered as a pinch runner earlier in the inning. 

Faucheux retired the Lynx in the seventh, allowing a single but getting a double-play line drive. In the bottom of the inning, Gravat stepped up to the plate with one out  and crushed the game-winning home run, a no-doubter that cleared the center-field fence by at least 15 feet. 

The walk-off gave Faucheux the win as she also threw a complete game. The sophomore scattered seven hits and walked one while striking out two. 

Millsaps and Rhodes will do it all again tomorrow with another double header to close out the series. First pitch for game one is set for noon. 

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