LIVINGSTON, Ala. --- The 17th-ranked Mississippi College baseball team secured a doubleheader sweep at the University of West Alabama on Saturday, April 20. The Choctaws opened the twinbill with a 13-7 victory and followed with an 8-2 win in the nightcap.
 
Blaine Crim led the Choctaws at the plate with a 5-for-9 day at the plate with nine RBI. Brandon Broussard posted multiple hits in both outings as he added a 4-for-9 afternoon with four RBI. Five multiple hit performances were turned during the two games.
 
Chris Crosby (7-2) notched his seventh win of the season in the opener while Zack Ingram (6-2) grabbed his sixth in the nightcap. Garrett Hollinghead (1) secured his first save of the season in the opener.
 
Game One Score: Mississippi College 13 | West Alabama 7
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2019
Location: Livingston, Ala. | Tartt Field
Records: Choctaws 26-13, 18-5 GSC | Tigers 22-16, 9-14 GSC
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Leading 5-2 through five innings, the Choctaws busted the game open in the sixth with its third, five-run inning of the season in the sixth. Luke Yancey started the scoring with a RBI single that plated Brandon Broussard. Crim followed with the first grand slam of the season and the first of his career to extend lead to 10-2.
• The Tigers got a run in the bottom of the sixth and added a two-run home run in the seventh to cut the lead in half.
• Crim extended the lead in the eighth with a two-run double that scored Dylan Duplechain and Hunter Sykes. Brandon Broussard added a solo home run in the top of the ninth to cap the Choctaws scoring.
• UWA cut into the lead in the bottom of the ninth with two runs.

 
ON THE MOUND

• Crosby allowed three runs on eight hits with five walks and three strikeouts in 5.2 frames.
• Hollinghead surrendered four runs on four hits with four strikeouts in 3.1 innings of relief.

 
Game Two Score: Mississippi College __ | West Alabama __
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2019
Location: Livingston, Ala. | Tartt Field
Records: Choctaws 26-13, 18-5 GSC | Tigers 22-16, 9-14 GSC
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• For the second straight game, the Choctaws scored in the first inning as Crim hit a two-run home run – his second of the day.
• West Alabama cut the lead in half in the bottom of the third on a solo home run from Ben Dalke. Justin Booker tied the contest at 2-all with a RBI double in the fourth.
• Choctaws regained the lead in the fifth with a five spot headlined by Broussard's three-run home run off Cole Waites. Billy Cameron opened the scoring with a RBI bunt single and Luke Yancey capped the scoring with a RBI double to right.
• MC added a run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Chauncey Callier.

 
ON THE MOUND

• Ingram allowed two runs on seven hits in five innings with two walks and four strikeouts.
• Lane fanned four and walked two along with a hit in two innings.

 
NOTEABLES

• Mississippi College tied a season-high with 15 hits in the series opener.
• The win at Tartt Field is the first since Feb. 26, 1995.
• MC has won the first game of the series eight times this season.
• Crosby moved to a tie for seventh in career strikeouts with 160. He joins Wayman Grantham (1989-92).
• Crim tied a career-high with seven RBI in the first game of the series. The Mobile, Ala., junior moved to seventh in single season RBI with 54.
• Crim's double in the eighth pulled him with two of becoming the single season doubles leader and tied him with Bob Boyte for fourth.
• Mississippi College turned a triple play in the bottom of the fifth (Cameron-to-Barber-to-Crim). It's just one of six triple plays turned in Division II this season and of 16 in NCAA All Divisions.

 
NEXT UP
Mississippi College returns to action on Saturday, April 27 as it hosts in-state foe Delta State University. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.