MOBILE, Ala. --- The Mississippi College softball team scored eight runs in the final two innings of a 9-1 victory over Spring Hill on Tuesday afternoon at Murray Field.

The Lady Choctaws (15-12, 12-8 GSC) were scheduled to play a doubleheader, but the second game against the Badgers (14-10) was canceled due to inclement weather.
 

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MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE 9, SPRING HILL 1

HOW IT HAPPENED
  - The game was scoreless through the first three innings, but the Lady Choctaws broke through in the 4th with a sacrifice fly from Gracie Trahan to score Morgan Bradford.
  - MC opened the game up in the 5th with five runs, starting with a two-run triple by Bradford to score Jordan LaFosse and McCall Lee.
  - Shelby Carlson followed that up with an RBI single that scored Bradford to push the score to 4-0.
  - The big blow of the game came next as Annemarie Peavy hit her first home run of the season to give MC the 6-0 advantage.
  - The Lady Choctaws extended the lead to 9-0 in the 6th with three more runs, beginning with an RBI double from Lee that scored Rayne Minor.
  - Brooke Fagan then drove in Lee with a single and Mallory Little drove Fagan in with a sacrifice fly for MC's last run of the game.
  - The Badgers got on the board in their half of the 6th with an RBI double from Ashley Ortiz that scored Hannah Fillmore.

KEY STATS
  - The Lady Choctaws put up a season-high 14 hits with six different players having two hits apiece.
  - Bradford and Peavy each had two RBI to go along with two hits, while Bradford and Lee each scored a pair of runs.\
  - Avery Barnett (7-2) tossed her sixth straight complete game and won her sixth straight decision.
  - The sophomore allowed just three hits and an earned run with three strikeouts over 6.0 innings.
  - Hannah Brenton (7-5) took the loss for the Badgers, allowing 13 hits and three earned runs over 5.1 innings.
 

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NEXT UP
  - The Lady Choctaws are scheduled to be back in action on Friday when they host Auburn Montgomery for the opener of a three-game series at 5:00 p.m.
 

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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.