LaGrange, GA – The Millsaps Baseball team fell to LaGrange in a pair of midweek non-conference games on the road.
The Majors dropped both games in Tuesday's double-header by scores of 5-4 and 10-2. Both games were played to seven innings, as the Panthers secured a game one win with a walk off RBI single in extras and led throughout the contest for game two.
With the pair of losses, Millsaps Baseball falls to 16-15 on the year while LaGrange improves to 25-10. Tuesday's double-header also marked the fourth time the Majors and Panthers have faced each other this season with both teams splitting two games in Feb. at the Millsaps Invitational.
Millsaps got the scoring started early in the first game when
Lee Ogletree hit an RBI single to left field. Ogletree's RBI scored
Logan Patterson and gave the Majors a 1-0 lead in the first.
LaGrange, however, answered by taking the lead with a two-run third. The Majors answered in the following inning with an
Andy Page leadoff single in the fourth. Page then stole second and later advanced to third on a
Brennan Ducote single - giving
Chase Callaway a chance to tie the game.
The first baseman delivered with an RBI single through the left side - scoring Page and tying the game.
Cavan Breland then scored Ducote on a sacrifice fly to right field. In all, the Majors totaled two runs on three hits in the positive fourth to retake the lead 3-2.
Millsaps later added to the lead in the sixth on a
Logan Patterson sacrifice fly, but the Panthers answered in the bottom half of the inning. LaGrange tied the game with a two-run sixth, which eventually sent the seven-inning game to extras.
In the decisive eighth, the Panthers secured the game one win with a walk off RBI single up the middle. LaGrange followed up the win with a 10-2 victory in game two to improve to 25-10 on the season.
Lee Ogletree led the day in hits for the Majors with two while
Logan Patterson,
Isaac Glenn,
Drew Wray,
Andy Page and
Chase Callaway all recorded one. Ogletree, Patterson, Callaway and Breland also led in RBI with one for the first game while
Taz Watson recorded the lone RBI for the second game.
Connor Woodall and
Patrick Grumbley recorded the two hits for game two, as the Majors will look to quickly rebound with another conference series this weekend.
Millsaps Baseball returns home to face Berry for a three-game series starting Friday, April 8th. First pitch for game one between the Vikings and Majors is set for 3:00 pm at Twenty Field.