CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College baseball team dropped the rubber match of the Gulf South Conference series to the No. 8 University of West Florida, 6-3. MC moves to 11-8 on the season and 4-5 in league plate. The Argonauts improve to 14-6 and 7-2 in GSC action.
 
The Choctaws totaled six hits with four coming off the combined bats of Wesley Sides and Korey Cooper. Both Sides and Cooper went 2-for-4 at the dish with an RBI each while Sides scored twice in the contest. It is the seventh multiple-hit effort of the season for Sides, who recorded the only extra-base hit of the afternoon for the Blue and Gold, and the sixth on the campaign for Cooper.
 
Austin Huggins (2-1) suffered his first setback of the season. The right-hander went 4.0 frames with five runs allowed on seven hits alongside two strikeouts and three walks. He was one of a quartet of Choctaws to toe the rubber in the affair as the unit combined to allow 12 hits.
 
Jacob Heath (3-2) picked up the complete-game victory on the mound. He fanned six in the nine frames and scattered six hits.
 
UWF scored a run in five of its first six trips to the plate, with two runs coming in the third frame. Jackson Grabsky plated the first two runs of the game for the Green and Blue as he posted back-to-back RBI singles in the first and third innings to five the visitors from the Sunshine State a 2-0 lead. Grabsky paced the Argos going 3-for-5 with two RBI.
 
UWF added one more in the third to extend the deficit to 3-0 and added a run in the fourth, fifth and sixth before the Blue and Gold got on the board in the bottom of the seventh as Beau Kirsch singled to right field to score Sides.
 
MC attempted another, late-inning rally in the ninth. Sides delivered an RBI-double to left center to push JT Vance across the dish. The Southaven, Miss., native scored later in the inning as Cooper singled to right field, but it wasn't enough as the Argos claimed the series.
 
Mississippi College returns to action on Tuesday, March 12 as it hosts Henderson State University in non-conference action. First pitch is at 3 p.m.
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