ROME, Ga. --- The Mississippi College softball team claimed a road series victory over Shorter University with an 8-0 win in five innings on Sunday afternoon at Alto Park.

The Lady Choctaws improved to 9-8 on the season with a 4-5 Gulf South Conference mark, while the Hawks fell to 9-8 and 5-3 in the league.
 

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HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Lady Choctaws scored in all five innings on Sunday, starting by manufacturing a run as senior Katherine Lee drew a leadoff walk, stole second base, moved up to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a groundout by junior Kristen Qualls.
- In the second inning, sophomore Shayla McKissock singled with two outs to score freshman Jessica Aron and push the lead to 2-0.
- Junior Shelby Miller gave the Lady Choctaws a 3-0 in the third inning with a sacrifice fly to score Qualls.
- The fourth inning was when MC broke the game open as freshman Kayla Murphy hit her second three-run home run in as many games, leaving the yard to left field and giving the Lady Choctaws a 6-0 lead.
- MC would add the deciding runs in the fifth inning as McKissock drove in another run with a single to left, scoring junior Alexia Harmon.
 

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KEY STATS
- Junior Cori Cooper (2-0) tossed her second complete game of the week, allowing just two hits with six strikeouts over 5.0 innings as the Lady Choctaws tallied their first shutout of the season.
- McKissock had a team-high two hits, while Murphy drove in a team-high three runs with the long ball.
 

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NEXT UP
- The Lady Choctaws are back in action next weekend for a three-game series with Lee University, marking the first home games of the season at the MC Softball Complex.
 

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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.