CLINTON, Miss. --- Garrett Odom hit two home runs and drove in six runs as the Mississippi College baseball team topped Christian Brothers 13-7 in the opening game of the Gulf South Conference series. MC improves to 9-12 and 3-9 in the conference while CBU falls to 6-18 and 0-13 in the GSC.
 
Odom, the Pascagoula, Miss., native, finished the day with a team-best three hits as he was one of four Choctaws to record multiple hits in the effort. Logan Ferrell, Caleb Upton and Colton Caver each tallied two hits in the outing as Austin Warkentin and Toler Robinson tallied two RBI.
 
Jake Fraze (5-1) pitched 5.0 frames in the win as he fanned three and allowed six runs – two earned – on seven hits. Blaine Crim (1) recorded his first save of the season with 4.0 innings in relief as he struck out four and allowed a run on two hits.
 
Trailing 5-4 through three and half innings, MC exploded with six runs in the bottom of the fourth. Odom collected his first home run of the day, driving in Caver and Warkentin. The hit was his second of the game after he singled in the third.
 
Warkentin delivered the first two runs of the frame with a single to right field scoring Crim and Will Elliott. Caver drove in one of his two RBI setting up Odom homer.
 
CBU added a run in the sixth, but MC responded with two runs as Odom hit his second home run scoring Caver.
 
The two squads each added a run the remainder of the way.
 
Upton started the scoring for the Navy and Gold with a single through the left side followed by a Robinson double to right center that pushed Upton and Crim across the dish.
 
Mississippi College and Christian Brothers resume the series on Sunday, Mar. 20 as the two meet in a doubleheader. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.