MAJORS PUMMEL BELHAVEN

The Millsaps Majors continued their winning ways on Tuesday (4/6/04) by trouncing neighborhood rival Belhaven, 12-1, in a game shortened to eight innings by the ten-run rule. The Majors improved to 27-6 while Belhaven dropped to 15-24. Millsaps has now won six straight and 17 of their last 18 games.

The victory completed a season sweep over the Blazers, with the Majors winning the three games by a cumulative score of 21-3. Millsaps is now 4-1 in the Cowboy Maloney Series with one game left, the regular season finale at Mississippi College on April 19. The Choctaws, 3-1, must play Belhaven before meeting the Majors.

Millsaps had all facets of its game humming as they pounded out 17 hits to back the superb pitching performance of big right-hander John Fox (5-1), who seems to get stronger as the season progresses. He limited the Blazers to just one run on six hits while issuing a lone walk. He also struck out five Blazers. The win was his fifth straight.

The Majors jumped on top early thanks to a second-inning RBI single off the bat of Jason Hadley. They added four more in the third on a Scott Staines three-RBI triple. He later scored on a wild pitch to make it 5-0. With Fox in cruise control, the five runs seemed like ten.

Matt Renna singled home a run in the fifth before Millsaps applied the coup de grace with a four-run sixth. Ben Wilson's two-RBI double and RBI singles by Stu Phillips and Garner Wetzel did the damage. The Majors capped the slugfest in the eighth on a Wetzel two-run blast over the left field wall.

Every Millsaps starter collected at least one hit in the contest. Staines (3 for 5, three RBI), Wetzel (3 for 5, three RBI), Wilson (2 for 3, two RBI, three runs scored), Renna (3 for 3, RBI), and Phillips (2 for 5, RBI) all swung big sticks for the Majors.

Millsaps takes a well-deserved break from SCAC action this weekend as they host Crichton for a three-game set on Friday and Saturday (doubleheader).