LIVINGSTON, Ala. --- The Mississippi College softball team closed out a road series with West Alabama, grabbing an 11-2 win in six innings on Sunday afternoon at the UWA Softball Complex.

HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Lady Choctaws (9-8, 3-3 GSC) got the scoring going in the first inning as senior Tylan Buckley hit her second home run in as many days, giviing MC a 1-0 lead.
- The Tigers (9-8, 4-2 GSC) answered back in their half of the first, scoring an unearned run of MC starter Penny Nichols, who got out of the bases loaded jam without further damage.
- Junior Katherine Lee gave the Lady Choctaws the lead for good with a two-run triple in the second inning, scoring sophomores Kristen Qualls and Alexia Harmon, who singled to open the inning.
- Lee would come home to score on a West Alabama error, and MC would take a 4-1 lead.
- After a quick second inning from Nichols, the Lady Choctaws blew the game open in the third with five runs, highlighted by RBI singles from Harmon and senior Haley Thompson.
- In the third, MC took advantage of five hits and four errors by the Tigers to take the 9-1 advantage.
- Despite the Tigers scoring in the bottom of the fifth to extend the game, MC would push the lead back out to 11-2 with two runs in the sixth.
- Senior Megan Everett doubled home a run, while sophomore Makenzie Nieto drove Everett in with a sacrifice fly.
- Nichols got out of the sixth inning without allowing a run, and the game ended one inning early.

KEY STATS
- Harmon led the MC offense with three hits, scoring two runs with an RBI.
- Thompson and Buckley each had multiple hits for MC, while Lee drove in a team-high two runs.
- Nichols (5-3) tossed her fifth complete game of the season, giving up just two hits and two unearned runs to a team that scored 20 on Saturday in the doubleheader.
- She also struck out four batters with no walks in the win.
- Andrea Edmonds (6-6) took the loss for the Tigers, giving up 11 hits and six earned runs over 6.0 innings.

NEXT UP
- The Lady Choctaws will play their first home games of the season next weekend, hosting Shorter for a three-game series, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday.
 

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Mississippi College is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi with an enrollment of over 5,000 students. MC is recently finished their transition process back to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference and will be competing for conference and national championships in the 2016-17 academic year.
 
The athletic department sponsors 17 intercollegiate athletic programs: Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Football, Golf, Men's and Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's and Women's Tennis, Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field, Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field and Volleyball.
 
For more information on Mississippi College athletics, please contact David Nichols at 601-925-3234 or nichols@mc.edu.