Millsaps Defeats Trinity in SCAC Weekend Series Opener

Jackson, Miss. – The Millsaps Majors beat the Trinity Tigers baseball team 12-2 Saturday in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference run-rule game at Twenty Field.

Trinity, which had its six-game winning streak snapped, now stands at 14-5 and 6-3 SCAC. Millsaps improved to 12-4 and 7-0 SCAC. The two teams conclude their weekend series at 1 p.m. Sunday, with a single game. Trinity and Millsaps will play three games April 17-18 at E.M. Stevens Field.

Millsaps took a 10-0 lead, with a run in the first inning, four runs  in the second, and five in the third. Trinity got on the board in the top of the sixth, as senior first baseman Evan Jones of Hillsborough, Calif. (Junipero Serra), homered to right center field. Jones’ solo shot was his sixth home run of the campaign.

Junior catcher Kyle Felix of Woodside, Calif. (Bellarmine College Prep), had his 26-game hitting streak broken, dating back to last year.

Tiger junior right-hander Noah Solomon of Austin, Texas (Anderson),  was the first of five Trinity pitchers, and took his first loss of  the season. Solomon (3-1) pitched two innings, and allowed six  earned runs, six hits, and no walks. Trinity’s pitching staff yielded 10 earned runs, nine hits, six walks, and two Millsaps home runs.

Trinity scored one earned run off the two Millsaps pitchers, made  only four hits and four walks, committed two errors, and left five players on base. The Majors had one error and stranded eight runners.