CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College baseball team secured its second, Gulf South Conference series of the season as it split a doubleheader with Lee University on Saturday, March 19 at Dickin-Scoper Stadium, Frierson Field. The Choctaws (10-16, 5-7 GSC) rebounded with a 4-3 victory in the series finale after falling 6-3 in the opening game of the day.
 
A trio of Choctaws logged multiple-hit performances during the twinbill as Caleb Reese paced the unit with three hits on the afternoon. The Bossier City, La., native tallied a pair of hits in the opener and recorded a one hit in the second game of the day. Markarius Lee joined Reese with two hits in the first game while Lane Willis notched a multi-hit outing in the series finale. Jackson Breedlove garnered the only multi-RBI outing of the day as he drove in a pair in the finale.
 
Cooper Gadman (1-1) notched his first win of the season as he closed out the second contest out of the bullpen. Gadman struck out four and allowed just one run on one hit in three innings of action. Gavin LeBlanc drew the start in the finale and went four frames with four strikeouts. He gave up two runs on three hits with a pair of walks.
 
MC held the early in both contests. Willis and Breedlove posted the first two runs of the game in the second affair as the Navy and Gold held a 2-0 lead through three innings. Lee cut the lead in half in the top of the fourth, but the Choctaws responded with a pair of runs in the fifth to push the margin to three runs as Breedlove and Ken Scott each recorded RBI-singles.
 
Justen Freeman drew the visitors from the Volunteer State to within a run with a solo home run in the top of the seventh, but Gadman got the next two batters to fly out before striking out Joshua Perez to end the contest.
 
The Navy and Gold led 3-1 after the first inning in the first game of the day as it logged three hits in the frame, but managed just three hits the remainder of the contest. Scott's RBI-double was sandwiched between Reese and Lee's RBI-singles in the home half of the first, but that was all the scoring for the squad in the game.
 
After Lee tied the game in the fifth, the Flames took the lead in the sixth as Brandon Daniels collected an RBI-triple. LU added two runs in the eighth off the bat of Matthew Batts.
 
Jackson Bridges (3-2) took the loss on the bump. He allowed four runs on eight hits along with four strikeouts in the 5.2 innings in the start. David Dunn tossed the final 3.1 innings in relief as he surrendered two runs on three hits with four walks and a strikeout.
 
The series win is the first since taking two of three from Christian Brothers University at the end of February.
 
Mississippi College is scheduled to return to action on Tuesday, March 22 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. First pitch in the Natural State is slotted for 2 p.m.
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