LIVINGSTON, Ala. --- The Mississippi College softball team collected their 9th straight victory in a 9-2 win over West Alabama on Tuesday afternoon at the UWA Softball Complex.

The Lady Choctaws (12-11) opened the non-conference scheduled doubleheader with a victory over the Tigers, while the second contest was canceled due to weather.
 

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MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE 9, WEST ALABAMA 2

HOW IT HAPPENED
  - The Lady Choctaws scored in each of the first six innings, starting with Rayne Minor touching home on a double by McCall Lee in the 1st inning.
  - Jordan LaFosse doubled home Lee and MC took a 2-0 lead before UWA came to the plate.
  - The Tigers got a run back in their half of the 1st, but MC scored twice in the 2nd, including Minor scoring again, this time on a double from Brooke Fagan.
  - An RBI single by Gracie Trahan scored Annemarie Peavy in the 3rd inning and MC's lead would extend to 5-1.
  - The Tigers got another run in the 3rd, but Morgan Bradford drove in a pair of runs in the 4th to push the lead back out to 7-2.
  - Lee recorded another RBI double in the 5th, and Peavy's RBI double in the 6th gave the game its final score.

KEY STATS
  - The Lady Choctaws posted a season-high 13 hits in the victory, including four players notching multi-hit games.
  - Lee went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI and has now pushed her average on the season to .414.
  - Six of MC's hits went for doubles with two coming from Lee.
  - Carlson, Peavy and Trahan each had two hits in the contest, while Minor led the team with three runs scored.
  - Avery Sanders (8-8) tossed another complete game to get her 6th straight victory, allowing just two hits with five strikeouts.
  - Kacy Noland (5-6) took the loss for the Tigers, allowing three hits and three earned runs over 1.2 innings.

NEXT UP
  - The Lady Choctaws are scheduled to be back in action next Tuesday (April 6) with a doubleheader at Miles (2:00 pm).
 

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Mississippi College is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi with an enrollment of over 5,000 students. MC recently finished their transition process back to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference and began competing for conference and national championships in the 2016-17 academic year.

The athletic department sponsors 18 intercollegiate athletic programs: Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Football, Men's and Women's 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.