JACKSON, Miss. (Apr. 8, 2017) – A pair of walk-off hits, including a grand slam home run in game one, gave Millsaps College a pair of dramatic wins over Oglethorpe University in a Southern Athletic Association (SAA) baseball doubleheader this afternoon. Junior Wes Lassere (Thibodaux, La.) capped a six-run, bottom of the ninth rally in game one with the slam, giving the Majors a 13-9 win. In game two it was Senior Logan Patterson (Pensacola, Fla.) who came up with a bases loaded hit in the bottom of the seventh to lift Millsaps to a 4-3 win over the Stormy Petrels.
 
Game 1
Oglethorpe (16-13, 6-8 SAA) had some fireworks of its own early in the first game, as a grand slam from Austin Ferlita highlighted a five-run second to put the Stormy Petrels on top. Millsaps (14-18, 5-8 SAA) came back with four in the third when the Majors loaded the bases with one away. Sophomore Connor Woodall (Madison, Miss.) then followed with a sac fly to score the first run. Senior Lee Ogletree (Raymond, Miss.) was hit by a pitch to drive in another, with junior Chase Callaway (Brandon, Miss.) adding an RBI single. A wild pitch brought home another run to make it a one-run contest.
 
Oglethorpe then tried to pull away, adding two runs in the fourth and single runs in the fifth and sixth to take a 9-4 lead. But Millsaps battled back, coming up with three in the sixth when the Majors again loaded the bases. Woodall was hit to plate one run, with Lassere following with a sac fly. Callaway then added another RBI single to make it 9-7.
 
Junior Bubba White (High Point, N.C.) kept Oglethorpe in check over the final three innings, giving up just a walk over that span to keep Millsaps close. With one down in the ninth, a single and an error put runners on second and third. Senior Joseph Stearns (Cypress, Texas) then delivered a pinch-hit single to right, scoring both runs to tie the game. Another single and a walk set the stage for Lassere, who ended it with his blast. White picked up the victory, going a total of five innings and allowing two runs, one earned, on a pair of hits.
 
Game 2
Game two was close all the way, with neither team holding more than a one-run advantage. Millsaps picked up an unearned run in the first, but Oglethorpe matched it in the second on a leadoff home run by Adrian Celata. The Stormy Petrels went on to add single runs in each of the next innings as well, with Britton Araujo collecting an RBI double in the third and Andrew Mink adding a sac fly in the fourth.
 
Millsaps stayed close, adding a run in the third on a Callaway RBI single to tie the game at 2-2 before the Stormy Petrels added their run in the fourth to retake the lead. They threatened again in the sixth when they loaded the bases with two away, but the Majors' starter, junior Jacob Mardick (The Woodlands, Texas) got out of the jam with a strikeout.
 
In the bottom half of the inning Woodall tied the game with a two-out base hit, setting up another exciting finish. After the first two hitters were retired, three straight walks loaded the bases before Patterson delivered his game-winning hit up the middle to give the Majors the sweep. Mardick went all the way for Millsaps on the mound, improving to 6-2, scattering seven hits and giving up three runs, two earned, while striking out eight.
 
Millsaps and Oglethorpe will complete the three-game SAA series tomorrow with a single game starting at Noon at Twenty Field.