Box Score Game 1    Box Score Game 2
Jackson, MS-The Belhaven baseball team split a Maloney Series doubleheader at Millsaps College Tuesday night and are now 2-1 in series play. The Blazers, ranked 24th in the latest Top 25 Poll, defeated the Majors in game one 9-1 and fell in game two 14-3. Belhaven trails Millsaps (3-1) by a half game in the Maloney Series standings with a rematch against Mississippi scheduled for next week.

Game One
Belhaven (33-13) jumped in front in game one with a run in the top of the third inning on an RBI single to left field by Derek Tortorich. Lake Eiland, who had singled earlier in the inning, came in to score on the play to make it a 1-0 game. Although, the Blazers scored the run, they let some opportunities to put the game away early go by the board. Belhaven ended up stranding seven men on base through the first three innings including leaving the bases loaded twice.

However, Belhaven didn't let run scoring opportunities get a away from them in the later innings beginning in the fifth frame. Tortorich doubled in Anthony Doss for the first run of the inning and then Ryan Saunders doubled home Tortorich to extend the lead to 4-0. The Blazers tacked on two more runs in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Eiland and on a squeeze bunt by Tortorich. Belhaven then broke the game open in the seventh thanks to a two run double by Tyler Wrinkle, a Jimmy Gilford RBI triple, and a run scoring single off the bat of Eiland. Millsaps (22-16) would plate their only run of the game off Belhaven starting pitcher Brandon McHenry in the bottom of the seventh on a base hit by Ryan Zemke.

McHenry had a solid outing allowing only one run on one hit in seven innings as he got the win and improved his record to 5-1. McHenry struck out nine Majors hitters and walked just one in his first complete game of the season.

Three different Belhaven hitters had three hits in the game led by Eiland and Wrinkle who also contributed two runs batted in. Gilford went 3 for 3 with one RBI and Tortorich was 2 for 2 with a team high three runs batted in. Saunders also collected a hit and an RBI. As a team, Belhaven cranked out 14 hits including four doubles and a triple.

Elliot Varney got the start for Millsaps and tossed the first four innings allowing three runs on eight hits with three walks and three strikeouts. Varney suffered the loss and falls to 2-4 this season on the mound. Andrew Pearce gave up five runs in 2.1 innings and Zemke pitched two thirds of an inning and permitted one run to score. Zemke also had the only RBI of the game on the base hit in the seventh.

Game Two
Millsaps turned the tables on Belhaven in the second game although things started off well for the Blazers in the top of the first. Gilford and Eiland had back to back one out doubles in the inning to put Belhaven in front 1-0. The Blazers would have had a second run if not for a perfect throw by right fielder Will Lawrence to cut down Eiland at the trying to score to end the inning. Paul Moreno had rifled a single to right field and Lawrence got to it quickly a fired a strike to home for what arguably was the play of the game.

The Millsaps offense responded with three runs in the bottom of the first off Belhaven starter Mark Husband who wasn't able to get out of the inning. Will Hawkins picked up the first of what would be seven RBI's in the game on a base hit to left. Andrew Evans sent home a run on an RBI ground out and then Hawkins capped the inning coming in on a wild pitch. The Majors went on to score another run in the third and put the game away in the fourth with six runs. Millsaps then tacked on three more in the fifth and one in the sixth. Belhaven notched a run in the sixth when Gilford scored on a wild pitch by Brandon Robinson and then in the seventh an RBI single by John Michael Williamson proved to be the final tally of the night.

Husband suffered the loss allowing three runs on two hits in two thirds of an inning to fall to 3-2 this season. Eiland had two of the five Belhaven hits in game two while Gilford, Moreno, and Williamson accounted for the others. Eiland and Williamson had the only runs batted in.

Jason Riggins started for Millsaps in game two and kept the Blazer bats off balance through the first five innings giving up just one run on three hits. Hawkins powered the Majors at the plate going 4 for 4 with a home run and seven runs batted in. Zemke had three hits and an RBI followed by Stephen Gates who slammed two hits and had one run batted in.

Belhaven will return to Smith-Wills Stadium on Wednesday night as they host Tougaloo College beginning at 6:00 PM. Fans can follow all the play-by-play action through live audio and stats courtesy of Stretch Internet by clicking here.