Conway, AR – The Millsaps Baseball team secured a pair of conference road wins over Hendrix in extra innings in thrilling, dramatic style.
 
Saturday's double-header took over six hours and 21 innings of play, but the Majors secured their third conference series win of the season – and in doing so kept hopes of hosting part of the conference tournament at Twenty Field alive.  With wins of 6-3 and 5-4 in Conway, the Millsaps Baseball team improves to 19-18 overall on the year.
 
Saturday marked the start of the final conference series of the regular season for Millsaps, as the Majors secured a game one victory in 11 innings.
 
The Majors took an early lead in the second with a Wes Lassere RBI single.  Lassere's single scored Drew Wray to give the Majors an early 1-0 lead.  Millsaps later added to the lead in the top of the eighth with an RBI single to center by Andy Page. 
 
Millsaps also gained a great deal of momentum in game one from the excellent pitching of Greg Matthews.  The Majors' ace pitched seven scoreless innings to start the game and struck out four batters.  Overall, Matthews gave up only two runs on four hits, as Chris Guerin pitched three innings in relief.
 
The Majors held a 2-0 lead through seven innings - Hendrix, however, responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game 2-2.  The first of two extra inning games then began with neither team breaking the scoring barrier in the ninth and tenth innings.
 
The decisive 11th, however, proved to be difference for Millsaps.  A leadoff walk for Isaac Glenn got things started.  From there, Lee Ogletree singled on a bunt to place the winning run at second.
 
Drew Wray then delivered with an RBI single to left center scoring Glenn and giving the Majors at 3-2 lead.  Seth Trulock kept the momentum going with a single while Chase Callaway gave the Majors a huge boost with a two RBI single through the right side.  The Majors were not done there either, as Cavan Breland scored Trulock on a fielder's choice to short – ending the inning with Millsaps leading 6-2.
 
Overall, Millsaps regained the lead in the positive 11th with four runs on four hits.  Hendrix scored once in the bottom of the 11th, but Chris Guerin and the Majors' defense closed out the game to secure the thrilling win. 
 
Millsaps completed the game with six runs on 13 hits while the Warriors completed the game with three runs on eight hits (no errors for either team). 
 
The second game of the day, scheduled for seven innings, was decided much like the first – in extra innings.
This time, Hendrix took an early lead with a run in the second.  Millsaps then responded with three runs in the third.  Isaac Glenn put the Majors on the board with a two RBI triple to right center.  Drew Wray then scored Glenn on an RBI single to give the Majors a 3-1 lead.
 
Hendrix, however, regained the lead with a run in the third and two runs in the fifth. 
 
Trailing 4-3 in the sixth, the tenacious Majors tied the game on an Andy Page RBI single to left center.  Page's clutch hit scored Joseph Stearns and sent the contest to extra innings for the second straight time in Saturday's double-header.
 
Neither team would score for the next three innings with the Majors gaining a boost from the solid relief pitching of John Wiltshire.  Wiltshire earned the game two victory on the mound giving up one hit in five scoreless innings for Millsaps.
 
In the decisive tenth, the Majors solidified the win.  Brennan Ducote got things started with a leadoff single through the left side.  Lee Ogletree then advanced Ducote to second – putting the winning run in scoring position.  Joseph Stearns then flied out to center advancing Ducote to third and giving Logan Patterson an opportune at-bat.
 
The second baseman delivered with a clutch RBI single to right field, giving the Majors their first lead since the fourth inning.  Wiltshire and the Majors' defense then forced a three-up three-down bottom of the tenth to secure the series win.
 
Millsaps scored five runs on 15 hits in the second game while the pitching trio of Daniel Adams, Zack Borne and John Wiltshire held Hendrix to eight hits on four runs.
 
Now at 19-18, the Majors will look to sweep the series for the third and final game tomorrow, April 17th.  First pitch for the regular season finale between the Majors and Warriors is set for 12:00 pm at Warrior Field.