SEWANEE, Tenn. –
Aidan Petrocco and
Zach Fortman each collected two hits and Petrocco scored twice, but Millsaps exploded for 10 runs in the first four innings in a 14-2 victory over Sewanee in baseball action here Friday at Montgomery Field.
The Tigers (14-10, 1-6 SAA) and Majors (18-6, 5-2) finish the series with a doubleheader Saturday beginning at Noon.
Millsaps posted four home runs and scored five runs in the second inning and four in the fourth, taking control and backing starter Nick Tarantino (6-1), who tossed a seven-inning complete game. The lefthander allowed two runs on seven hits with one walk and seven strikeouts.
Sewanee netted single runs in the fourth and sixth innings but stranded only five baserunners against Tarantino. Tigers starter
Jack Merrill (0-2) allowed three runs on two hits in one-plus innings. He walked one and hit a pair of batters.
Gray Berry was hit to leadoff the game for the Majors and Bradley Pelle walked before a single to left by Evan Scott loaded the bases. EJ Ousley grounded into a 5-3 doubleplay but Berry scored on the play and Case Page popped out, with Merril escaping with just one run allowed.
Mason Morgan was hit to start the second inning and Branyan Bounds followed with a two-run homer to left, ending the day for Merril. Jackson Ware walked and after a strikeout, Berry singled to right and Pelle belted a three-run shot to right, extending the Millsaps lead to 6-0.
In the fourth inning David Abbadessa singled to leadoff and Berry doubled to leftcenter, driving home a run. He went to third on a groundout and scored on Scott's single down the first base line, a nubber off the end of the bat that rolled about halfway down the line. Ousley then drilled a two-run homer to dead centerfield, extending the advantage to 10-0.
The Tigers got on the board in the bottom of the fourth when Petrocco doubled and Fortman singled, putting runners on the corners. Petrocco came across on a groundout from
Tyler Pinson.
Ware and Abbadessa recorded back-to-back doubles to leadoff the Millsaps fifth. Abbadessa went to third on a fly ball to deep center and scored on a wild pitch for a 12-1 Majors lead.
Sewanee got a run back in the sixth on a single by Petrocco and a walk to
Charlie Teel. Pinson dropped a single into short rightcenter, plating a run, but that was all for the home team.
In the seventh pinch-hitter Zac Farris singled and Berry hit a towering two-run homer to left that just cleared the wall for the final runs of the contest.
