JACKSON, Miss. – The Millsaps baseball team rattled off seven runs in the bottom of the first inning to overwhelm the Sewanee Tigers, 14-3 in eight innings at Twenty Field on Friday. Senior
Nathan Chilton pummeled a three-run walk-off homer and classmate
Avery Brock tallied an inside-the-park home run.
Junior ace
Wil Wood had a strong outing in the mound as he only yielded two runs while striking out six batters in 4.0 innings.
After giving up a solo homer on his first pitch, second-year reliever
Clay Busby shined to earn his first win of the season by only allowing two more hits in 4.0 innings.
Case Page (three hits and two runs) belted an RBI-single between the pitchers' leg to send
Chris Hart (two RBIs, two hits and two runs) home for the first score of the game.
Bradley Pelle (two hits, two RBIs), Page,
Austin Arceneaux and
David Abbadessa tallied bases-loaded RBIs to push the Majors' lead to 5-0. As the Majors batted around the order in the first inning, a two-RBI single by
Mason Little (two runs scored) gave Millsaps a 7-0 advantage after the first inning.
Sewanee got on the score board in the next inning with a solo home run, but Millsaps would match them when
Mark Petkovsek (two runs) scored as Pelle notched a deep RBI-double to right field to extend their lead to 8-1.
The Tigers scored another run in the top of the third inning to make it an 8-2 game. Millsaps would once again add insurance when
Brock (two hits and two RBIs) turned on the jets for a two-run, inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the fourth.
After both teams went scoreless in the sixth and seventh innings,
Dylan McFarland scored on a wild pitch. With two men on base, Chilton pinch hit and smoked a three-RBI, walk-off bomb to left field to help the Majors preserve a 14-3 run-rule victory in eight innings.
Millsaps and Sewanee will wrap up the SAA regular season with a doubleheader, beginning at 12 p.m. Senior Day festivities will begin at 11:50 a.m. Live stats and video will be available at gomajors.com.
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