JACKSON, Miss. – The Millsaps baseball team cruised past Huntingdon, 15-5 in seven innings at Twenty Field in the team's Mental Health Awareness Game on Wednesday night.
The Majors defeated the Hawks after an earlier loss in Montgomery.
Senior Bradley Pelle batted 2-for-3 and he also recorded his ninth homer of the season with a grand slam. He also scored two runs and was hit by pitch.
Junior Mason Morgan crushed his second homer of the season. He recorded two runs, a pair of RBIs and walked against his non-conference opponents.
Graduate Case Page boasted his second homer of the season as well after shutting down the Hawks with a season-high four RBIs, while accumulating a walk and two runs.
Graduate Jackson Ware also had a strong game, going 2-for-3 with two runs, a double and a hit by pitch.
Senior Gray Berry (two runs, pair of RBIs, double, HBP), junior EJ Ousley (RBI, run, double, walk, HBP), senior Zac Farris (RBI, run, HBP), graduate Branyan Bounds (two runs, RBI, walk) each generated one hit against the Hawks.
On the mound, fifth-year senior Jackson Hood struck out two batters in one inning pitched while allowing zero hits and no runs against three walks.
Freshman Cam Cressend pitched two innings on the hill. The Mandeville, La., product struck out two batters where he only allowed one hit and no runs against four walks.
Classmate Fred Fields pitched the final two innings in scoreless fashion, surrendering no walks and one hit.
In the bottom of the first inning, Berry hit a lead-off double to left field. Moments later, Page executed a sacrifice fly, allowing Berry to score from third and give the Majors an early 1-0 lead.
After a strong start by the Majors in the bottom of the first inning, Millsaps (23-8) continued to add pressure in the bottom of the second inning.
Morgan began the inning with a walk, Ware singled to left field and Bounds reached first base on a bunt single.
Moments later, Farris and Berry were both hit by pitches, allowing Morgan and Ware to score and push the Majors ahead to a 3-0 lead.
Pelle then stepped in and smacked a grand slam to right field, propelling the team past the Hawks, 7-0 just minutes later.
Ousley followed with a double down the left field line three batters later to bring Page home.
A Bounds sacrifice fly then scored senior Evan Scott in the bottom of the inning as the Majors outpaced their opponents with a 9-0 score.
The Majors put up eight runs by recording four hits, three walks and were hit by three pitches.
After falling behind by nine runs, Huntingdon (16-11) used back-to-back doubles in the top of the fourth inning to narrow the contest to 9-2.
Huntingdon added three runs in the top of the fifth inning, closing the deficit to 9-5.
However, in the bottom of the fifth, Ware opened the inning with a double.
Moments later, Berry flied out to center field on a sacrifice fly, allowing Ware to score and push the Majors ahead, 10-5.
In the same inning, Page hit a three-run homer out to left, putting the contest out of reach at 13-5 for the Majors.
The excitement continued as Morgan launched a two-run home run, helping the team build a 15-5 margin in the sixth.
Fields recorded three more outs to put the run-rule into effect in the top of the seventh inning.
The Majors will be back in action in a conference doubleheader at Rhodes in Memphis, Tenn., beginning at 12 p.m. on Saturday. Live video and live stats will be available at gomajors.com.
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Founded in Jackson, Mississippi in 1890, Millsaps College is a national liberal arts college dedicated to academic excellence, open inquiry and free expression, the exploration of faith to inform vocation and the innovative shaping of the social, economic and cultural progress of our region. Consistently ranked as one of the best values in higher education, Millsaps has been praised by Colleges That Change Lives, The Princeton Review, Forbes Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The John Templeton Foundation, and The Fiske Guide to Colleges.
