CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College baseball team picked up its second straight, Gulf South Conference series sweep as it took a pair of extra-inning, doubleheaders on Sunday, April 18 at Frierson Field at Dickins-Scoper Stadium. MC (15-15, 12-13 GSC) walked it off in 10 innings with a 2-1 victory in the opening game of the day and rallied from one down to walk-off with a 5-4 win in 12 innings in the nightcap.
 
Dylan Duplechain and Dakota Kennedy totaled three hits apiece on the day to lead the team. Duplechain led the squad with two hits in the opener while Kennedy added a multi-hit performance in the second contest alongside Caleb Reese. Kennedy led the team with two RBI as he drove in both winning-runs on the day.
 
Dylan Marsh (2-2) grabbed both wins on the mound today in relief appearances. Marsh totaled eight strikeouts, allowed just one, unearned run and gave up three hits during 5.2 combined innings on the bump. The Lake Cormorant, Miss., product factored into all three outings this weekend as he grabbed the save in the opening game of the series.
 
Mississippi College returns to action on Friday, April 23 as it travels to Cleveland, Tenn., for the first of a three-game, Gulf South Conference series against nationally-ranked Lee University. First pitch on Friday is slated for 6 p.m.

GAME 2: Mississippi College 2 | Auburn-Montgomery 1 (10 inn.)
DATE: Sunday, April 18, 2021
LOCATION: Frierson Field
RECORDS: Choctaws 14-15, 11-13 GSC | Warhawks 15-16, 13-16 GSC
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- In what looked like a pitcher's duel through the first four and half innings of the opening game of the day, Mississippi College applied the first run of the contest in the bottom of the fifth as Duplechain singled through the right side to plate Casey Page.
- AUM tied the contest in the top of the seventh as Corey Armstrong scored on a Quinterrious Arrington fielder's choice.
- The score remained deadlocked until the bottom of the 10th as the Choctaws loaded the bases with no outs following an AUM throwing error that allowed Page to reach and Jaron Harris was intentionally walked. Kennedy lifted a ball into the right field and Markarius Lee tagged and scored from third to win the contest.
 
ON THE MOUND
- Jackson Bridges started the contest for the Navy and Gold and pitched a marvelous 8.0 innings as he allowed just one run on four hits with four strikeouts in the no decision.
- Marsh tossed 2.0 innings in the relief appearance with a hit allowed and two strikeouts en route to the win.
- Sam Steigert (1-1) took the loss on the bump for AUM as he gave up the winning run with a third of an inning of action and walk surrendered.

GAME 3: Mississippi College 5 | Auburn-Montgomery 4 (12 inn.)
DATE: Sunday, April 18, 2021
LOCATION: Frierson Field
RECORDS: Choctaws 15-15, 12-13 GSC | Warhawks 15-17, 13-17 GSC
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Mississippi College struck first in the second contest of the day as Reese singled through the right side to plate Duplechain in the bottom of the first. Ken Scott followed in the third with a two-run home run to expand the lead to 3-0 as he scored Duplechain.
- AUM rallied in the top of the sixth as it pulled within two runs on a Joseph Hartsfield two-RBI single to center field. Arrington knotted the contest at 3-all in the top of the ninth with a RBI-double to left center and sent the game into extra innings for the second time on the day.
- The Warhawks grabbed its first lead of the game and first since leading 1-0 in the opening contest of the series as Casey Henderson reached on a fielder's choice and Steigert scored on the play, capitalizing on a MC throwing miscue. MC grabbed back-to-back strikeouts and a fielder's choice left the bags full for the Black and Orange and limited the damage.
- The Choctaws tied the contest at four as Logan McGrew led the inning off with a double to left field that pushed Page across the dish. After Lee was hit by a pitch, Harris was walked to load the bags and for the second time in the day, Kennedy lifted a ball into right field and Mack Pickering, who was pinch-running for McGrew, beat the throw home and gave MC the series sweep.
 
ON THE MOUND
- Bryce Lewis tossed 8.1 innings in the start and struck out seven, allowed three runs – one earned – on eight hits along with a walk in the no decision.
- Jax Morris (0-1) was saddled with the loss in the mound as he allowed two runs – one earned – on one hit and two walks. He also struck out one. AUM starter Hunter Viets tossed 10 innings, struck out 10 and gave up three runs on six hits. Logan Coleman walked one in a third-of-an-inning of work in relief.

INSIDE THE BOX
- Mississippi College is 5-1 all-time in the series against AUM and has claimed three straight in the series.
- The sweep runs the Choctaws' win streak to seven consecutive – the longest currently in the GSC.
- The 12 innings marks the most played in a single game this season for the Choctaws. No game prior had gone more than 10 innings. MC is now 4-1 in extra-inning contests and have won the last four going extra frames.
- Lewis' seven punch-outs stands second to his career-high eight strikeouts at West Alabama on Feb. 22 earlier this season. Today's outing also marked a career long for the Moody, Ala., native as he surpassed his previous best with eight frames at Christian Brothers last weekend.
- Kennedy's walk-off RBI is the first since Duplechain accomplished the feat on April 27, 2019 against Delta State.
- Scott's two-run home run is his eighth of the season and ties him for tops on the team with Reese. The two-run homer is his second of the season. He has 11 in his career in Clinton.
- Bridges tied his career-high, longest outing originally set on March 20 against Shorter.
- AUM Sports Information Director, Jacob Horton, was once a graduate assistant in the Mississippi College Athletic Communications office.