JACKSON, Miss. — The Millsaps College baseball team secured a dramatic, 12-11 win over Huntingdon College in a 12-inning contest on Wednesday at Twenty Field. 
 
Millsaps (4-4) capitalized on six walks and seven hit batters to maintain offensive pressure throughout the game. The game ended with a bases-loaded, hit-by-pitch where freshman Dominic Mendieta brought home the winning run standing tall at the plate. 

Senior EJ Ousley recorded four hits in five at-bats, two RBIs, and eight assists, demonstrating his effectiveness both at the plate and in the field as a shortstop. He also was hit by two pitches, scored a run and stole a base. 
 
Classmate Sam Thomas contributed significantly with three hits, including a home run, and collected two RBIs, while scoring twice and securing a stolen base. 
 
Junior Wesley Grant was active scoring two runs, adding two RBIs with three hits, including a double, and successfully earning a walk two stolen bases. 
 
Senior Andrew Bradley was terrific in the final 3.2 innings of relief. He held the Hawks scoreless and yielded just one hit. Bradley added a strikeout. 
 
Sophomore Cam Cressend pitched a flawless second inning with a strikeout as well. 
 
Huntingdon (7-2), who is currently receiving votes in the D3baseball.com Poll, built a commanding 8-0 lead with a run in the first inning, four runs in the third, and three runs additional runs in the top of the fifth inning. 

Millsaps began to battle back in the bottom of the fifth inning. Freshman Hudson Moberly used a sacrifice fly and Thomas singled through the left side to plate the first two runs. 
 
Grant later doubled to drive in two additional runs and sophomore Wes Carr grounded out to tally a fifth run in the same inning. 
 
In the seventh inning, the Majors closed the gap even more with a run when Thomas recorded his second homer on the season, which was a solo home run to right field. 
 
Huntingdon added a run in the eighth inning to make it 9-6. However, the Majors continued to claw their way back. 
 
Mendieta pinch hit, walked, and later scored on a double by freshman pinch hitter Michael Griggs, reducing the Majors' deficit to 9-7. 
 
The tried to put Millsaps away in the top of the ninth by posting two more runs. 
 
Millsaps was not finished though mounting its terrific comeback. The Majors loaded the bases with no outs courtesy of a Grant walk, Carr single and Mendieta hit. 
 
A single by freshman Thomas Temple followed by Ousley's 2-RBI single up the middle cut the deficit to 11-10. 
 
With runners on the corners and one out, sophomore Carston Williams forced extra innings by recording a sacrifice fly to score Temple from third. 
 
The teams remained tied through the 10th and 11th innings as neither side could break the deadlock. 
 
In the 12th, the Majors were able to place the first three batters on base with no outs. Moberly singled up the middle and eventually scored the winning run when Mendieta was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, securing a dramatic 12-11 victory for Millsaps. 
 
The Majors return to Twenty Field and co-host the Belhaven/Millsaps Tournament, beginning with a matchup with Hardin-Simmons University at 12 p.m. on Saturday. Live video and live stats will be provided for all games 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.