CARROLLTON, Ga. --- The Mississippi College baseball team claimed its eighth straight win of the season with a 7-3 victory at the ninth-ranked University of West Georgia. MC improved to 9-1 on the season and 1-0 in Gulf South Conference action. The Wolves fell to 10-2 and 0-1 in the league.
 
Turning Point
Billy Cameron hit a three-run homerun over the left center field wall in the fifth. The homer placed MC up 5-2 in the game and helped secure the conference-opening victory.
 
Inside the Box Score

• Five Choctaws recorded multiple hits in the game led by Blaine Crim's 3-for-5 performance. Kyle Smith, Hunter Wilson, Cameron and Brandon Broussard each tallied a pair of hits.
• Cameron notched a team-best four RBI in the game.
• Chris Crosby picked up the decision on the mound in the start with 6.0 innings of work. Crosby allowed two runs – one earned – on eight hits with three strikeouts and a walk.
• Austin Chastang recorded the save with 3.0 innings along with one run allowed on two hits and a walk and strikeout.

 
Noteworthy

• The win is the third over a nationally-ranked opponent this season. MC took two of three from Lindenwood at the beginning of the season.
• The homerun marks the third of the season for Cameron. The Mendenhall, Miss., native has a solo, two-run and three-run homerun on the campaign.
• Cameron and Crim recorded the only extra base hits in the game.
• John Moore made his first start of the 2018 season.

 
Inside the Flow

• Mississippi College jumped on the board in the second inning with a pair of runs, but the Wolves clipped the lead in half with a run in the bottom of the frame.
• After Christopher Michals tied the game in the bottom of the third, Cameron lifted his homerun to place MC up by three runs.
• Cameron drove in another run in the bottom of the seventh and later scored on a throwing error to increase the lead to 7-2.
• The Choctaws hit .450 with two outs in the game and posted four, two-out RBI.

 
Next Up
Mississippi College and West Georgia close out the series on Saturday, Feb. 24 with a doubleheader. First pitch is slated for 11 a.m. central.