CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College baseball team fell 7-5 in 11 innings to the University of Arkansas at Monticello on Wednesday, March 27. The setback is the first in extra innings this season for the Choctaws and disrupts a run of two straight.
 
Hunter Sykes led the Choctaws at the dish with two hits while driving in three runs. Billy Cameron joined Sykes in the multi-hit category with a pair of his own. MC totaled 10 hits in the contest and out-hit the Boll Weevils 10-8 in the contest.
 
Tim Holloway (1-1) took the loss on the mound, his first of the season, as he pitched the final three innings in relief. Holloway, one of eight Choctaw hurlers to take the rubber, allowed two runs on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks.

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Game Score: Mississippi College 5 | Arkansas-Monticello 7 (11 inn.)
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Location: Clinton, Miss. | Frierson Field at Dickins-Scoper Stadium
Records: Choctaws 16-11 | Boll Weevils 17-8

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HOW IT HAPPENED

• UAM jumped on the board early with a run in the first and added one more in the second off a Grant Shepherd solo home run to take a 2-0 lead.
• The Choctaws answered back in the third with a pair of runs of their own as Sykes and Grant Barber each drove in a run to knot the contest at 2-all.
• The two teams stood deadlocked until the Boll Weevils plated three runs in the top of the eighth headlined by a two-run, home run from Dylan Borman.
• MC for the second time responded with three runs of its own in the bottom of the ninth. Brandon Broussard started the scoring in the frame with a RBI single to pull the Navy and Gold within a two runs. Sykes followed with a two-run double down the right field line to score Sam Kimel and Chauncey Callier and push the potential, game-winning run 90 feet away, however, the Choctaws would leave two runners stranded to send the contest into extra frames.
• After working around a single in the top of the 10th, the Choctaws again had the potential, game-winner at third, but left the second straight inning left two aboard.
• UAM broke the 5-5 deadlock in the top of the 11th as Cade Thompson singled to left field to score Elijah Celaya. The Green and White added an insurance run one batter later to gain the two-run advantage.

 
ON THE MOUND

• Zack Ingram tossed two frames in the start with two runs – one earned - on two hits with a strikeout and walk.
• Garrett Hollinghead, Dustan Dille, Brandon Kennedy, Christian Bellew and Sam Ciaccio each tossed one frame of scoreless baseball in relief. Dille struck out three and Bellew fanned two in their appearances.
• Garrett Ainsworth allowed three runs on three hits in his one inning on the mound.

 
NEXT UP
Mississippi College returns to action on Friday, March 29 as it hosts the University of Montevallo in the first game of a Gulf South Conference weekend series. First pitch against the Falcons is set for 5 p.m.