JACKSON, Miss. (Mar. 5, 2017) – Emory University broke open a close game with five runs in the sixth inning and then held off a rally by Millsaps College in the seventh to come away with a 7-6 win in non-conference baseball action at Twenty Field. Junior Chase Callaway (Brandon, Miss.) went 3-for-3 and drove in a pair of runs to lead the Majors.
 
Starting pitching was strong at the start of the game, with sophomore Hayden Williams (Mobile, Ala.) for Millsaps and Billy Dimlow for Emory each tossing a pair of scoreless innings to start the contest. Millsaps (7-8) broke through for the first run in the third, scratching across an unearned run. With two outs and junior Andy Page (Warrenton, Va.) on first, senior Lee Ogletree (Raymond, Miss.) singled to center where the ball was misplayed allowing Page to score.
 
Emory (12-1), the top-ranked team in the nation this week, answered in the fourth when Bubby Terp doubled down the line in left. Millsaps retook the lead in the bottom half of the inning when Calloway singled in sophomore Connor Woodall (Brandon, Miss.) who had led off with a double. The Eagles tied it again in the fifth on an RBI single by Jeff Ronpirin, only to see the Majors grab the lead back again in their half of the inning on a run-scoring single by junior Wes Lassere (Thibodaux, La.).
 
In the top of the sixth Millsaps pitching could not find the strike zone, with the Majors walking the first four batters to tie the game. A fielder's choice play and an error allowed Emory to grab the lead for the first time in the game at 4-3. Wilson Morgan then doubled into the corner in left to score two more before Ronpirin's RBI single put the Eagles up 7-3.
 
Millsaps staged a rally in the seventh, starting with a pair of one-out singles to put a pair on board. Calloway doubled to left to score one run, with freshman Jon Dale Dieckman (Madison, Miss.) following with a pinch-hit single that plated two runs to bring the Majors within a run at 7-6. Emory got out of the jam, however, when the Eagles caught a Millsaps runner trying to steal and then picked up a called third strike to end the threat.
 
Kyle Monk then set down the Majors in order in the eighth and ninth to wrap up the victory, giving up four hits and the three runs over 4.1 innings while striking out five. Dimlow, who had not surrendered an earned run in three starts this season, allowed 10 hits and three runs, two earned, with seven strikeouts in his 4.2 inning start. Junior John Wiltshire (Chantilly, Va.)pitched well out of the pen for Millsaps, finishing out the game for the Majors after coming in during the five-run uprising in the sixth and allowing one run on two hits over four innings.
 
Woodall led Millsaps with four hits in five trips, including a pair of doubles, and scored a pair of runs. Ronpirin was the only Emory player with two hits, with he and Wilson driving in a pair each.
 
Millsaps will play again on Wednesday at Twenty Field, hosting Eureka College at 6:00 p.m.