Feb. 22, 2009
Box Score
The Southwestern University baseball team dropped both games of its doubleheader to Millsaps College on Saturday, falling 13-6 in the first game and 11-7 in the second.
The Pirates dropped to 6-7 with the losses, and 0-2 in SCAC play. The Majors improved to 10-1 (3-1 SCAC) with the pair of victories.
In the first game, scheduled for seven innings, the Pirates took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first without the benefit of a hit as Chris Lowry walked, advanced to third on a wild pitch and a throwing error and scored on Michael Murphy's sac fly.
The lead was shortlived, as Millsaps scored six runs in the second inning, three of them unearned on a pair of Pirate errors to put the Majors ahead 6-1.
Millsaps tacked on another run in the fourth inning to extend its lead to 7-1, but the Pirates got the run back in their half of the fourth on an RBI single from Mark Noggle to make it a 7-2 contest.
The Majors extended the lead in the fifth on a pair of RBI singles, but the Pirates responded with four runs on bases loaded walks to Murphy and Kyle Belski and a two-run single from John Wooten to make it a 9-6 contest.
Millsaps broke the game open in the top of the seventh with four runs to make it a 13-6 game and the Pirates were unable to mount a rally in the seventh, giving the Majors a 13-6 win.
Tait Hendrix earned the win to move to 1-0 for the Majors, while Wes Willis dropped to 2-2 with the loss.
Todd Boone went 2-for-4 for Southwestern, while Murphy and Wooten each drove in a pair of runs. Tyler Berry went 3-for-4 with three runs scored to lead the Millsaps' offense.
The second contest, Millsaps jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but Kyle Belski's RBI groundout in the Pirates' half of the first cut the deficit to 2-1.
Millsaps pushed across four runs in the third inning to extend its lead to 6-1, but Southwestern responded with a pair of runs to make it a 6-3 contest.
Southwestern put together a rally in the fifth and tied the score at 6-6 on RBI's from Murphy, Belski and Mark Noggle. The Majors reclaimed the lead in the seventh on a three-run double to give them a 9-6 lead, but the Pirates shaved a run off their deficit on a sac fly from Wooten to make it a 9-7 game. Millsaps extended its lead back to three runs on an RBI single in the eighth inning, to make it a 10-7 game, and pushed another run across in the ninth inning to take an 11-7 lead. Southwestern
Drew Maddox earned the win for the Majors and improved to 3-1, while Brantley Freeman incurred the loss to drop to 2-1.
Murphy led the Pirates with a 4-for-5 day with three runs scored, while Belski notched three hits and three RBI. Russ Boyd led the Majors with a 3-for-5 effort.
The Pirates and Majors conclude their series on Sunday afternoon with a 1 p.m. start at Rockwell Field.
