MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- After having last weekend off, the Millsaps College baseball team jumped back in to Southern Athletic Association (SAA) play on Saturday by playing a doubleheader at Rhodes to open up a weekend series. 

There was plenty of offense early in the first game, but unfortunately the Lynx scored the last 11 runs of the game unanswered to pick up the 16-6 win.

In the second game, Rhodes led 3-0 until the Millsaps offense came alive with 4 runs in the top of the 7th to score a 4-3 win. 

Game 1
After a scoreless 1st inning, the Rhodes offense opened things up with a five-run bottom of the 2nd to take an early lead. 

It did not take long for Millsaps to respond however. 

William Warner and Jimmy Johnstone led off the top of the 3rd inning with back-to-back singles, and Brennan Ducote followed that up with a three-run home run to make it 5-3. A Jackson Hailey RBI groundout and a Keaton Page RBI single tied things up at 5-5. As the Majors batted around in the inning, Johnstone came through with his second base hit of the inning, this time scoring Will Neely to give Millsaps the 6-5 lead. 

Unfortunately, it was all Rhodes the rest of the way. The Lynx answered back with five runs in their half of the 3rd, and put up another five-spot in the bottom of the 4th. 

A RBI single in the bottom of the 7th inning gave Rhodes the walk-off run-rule win by a score of 16-6. 

Game 2
It was slow-going early for the Majors In the second game of the afternoon. The Lynx put up a run in the 2nd, and a pair of runs in the bottom of the 3rd to take a 3-0 lead. 

That advantage held for the next 3 innings, but the Millsaps offense came to life in the top of the 7th inning. 

Hailey led off the inning with a single, and one batter later Chris Hart reached on a fielder's choice. Johnstone came through with a RBI single to score Hailey and get the Majors on the board. In the very next at bat Ducote crushed his second three-run home run of the afternoon to put Millsaps ahead 4-3. 

Ryan Erwin, who had entered the game in the bottom of the 5th inning, picked up his first win of the season on the mound by stranding the tying run on second base in the bottom of the 7th. 

Key Contributors
Ducote paced the offense on the afternoon. He finished with three hits and six RBIs, all of them coming by way of the two home runs. Johnstone led the team in the hit department with four. He also had a pair of RBIs.  

What's Next?
The two teams return to Stauffer Field tomorrow afternoon for the rubber game in the three-game series. First pitch has been pushed back to 1:00 p.m due to rain in the forecast for tomorrow morning.