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February
10, 2007
JACKSON --
Luke Morrow's one-out single to left field in the bottom of the third inning
scored a pair of runs and broke open a 1-0 ballgame, as the Majors
piled on three runs in the inning to sweep the season series
with East Texas Baptist, 7-2.
Despite leaving 13 runners stranded on base, the 13th-ranked
Majors had seven different players earn at least
a hit, with Hunter Abrams and Morrow picking up two apiece.
After an 0-for-3 day at the plate in Friday's 15-1 win, Abrams
picked up his first hit of the season, homering to deep
leftfield in the bottom of the fourth to put the Majors on top
6-0.
ETBU (0-2, 0-0 American Southwest) responded with a run of its
own in the top half of the fifth, using a Rodney McLain single
to score Johnathan Jolly from third.
Millsaps (2-0, 0-0 SCAC) would tack on an insurance run in the
seventh to go up 7-1 and Abrams would come in to pitch for John
David
Childs
in the bottom of the eighth, working out of a bases loaded
jam to get out of the inning only surrendering one run.
The Majors had no problems from there, as Drew Maddox sent down
the Tigers lineup one, two, three in the ninth to conserve the
7-2 win.
Junior righthander Jay Hollenbeck picked up his first win of
the season, tossing five strong innings and picking up two strikeouts,
while surrendering only three hits and one unearned run.
For the Tigers, Reggie Patrick fell to 0-1 on the year, giving
up four runs on four hits and a walk in only three innings
of work.
In addition,
Patrick
along with teammate Jordan Gibbons plunked six Millsaps
batters on the afternoon, running the Majors' early season total
to nine.
Millsaps second baseman Nick Crawford, who was hit by an NCAA
record 32 pitches last season, has already been beaned four
times in
two games.
The Majors will return to action Tuesday, Feb. 13, playing
host to cross-town rival Mississippi College, a game that was
originally scheduled at Frierson Field in Clinton but has been
moved to Twenty Field due to unplayable field conditions.
First pitch was scheduled for
4 p.m., but has been moved to 6 p.m.
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