JACKSON, Miss.--The Adrian College baseball team finished 2-1 at the Millsaps College Classic on Monday after downing the host Majors, 10-6, behind season highs in runs and hits (10).

THE BASICS
= Final Scoreline: Adrian College 10-10-3; Millsaps College 6-6-2

= Location: Twenty Field, Jackson, Miss.; Weather: Mostly Cloudy, 73 degrees, Wind SE 10 mph

= Records: Adrian Bulldogs 2-4; Millsaps Majors 5-6

= National Rankings:  Adrian is No. 14 by the American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball Newspaper (247 points) preseason poll and "receiving votes" in the D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (48 points) poll.

TOP 'DAWGS
= Freshman Angel Gutierrez had a career day at the plate by going 3-for-5.

= Junior Thomas Miller had a double and triple while scoring three runs.

= Senior Brady Wood went 1-for-3 with three runs scored and two walks.

= Senior Spencer Ford (W, 1-0) earned the win in relief, pitching two scoreless innings while giving up just two hits.

= Junior Brandon Cooper had two runs batted in.

THE OPPOSITION
= Mark Petkovsek was 2-for-3.

= Fritz Walker III hit a two-run home run.

= Jimmy Johnstone chipped in a double.  

HOW IT HAPPENED
= Adrian scored seven runs over the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to turn a 3-2 lead into a 10-5 cushion.

= In the top of the third, Cooper broke a 2-2 tie to put the visiting Bulldogs ahead for good with a fielder's choice to drive in Miller who had led off with a walk and advanced 90 feet on two wild pitches.

= Adrian got some insurance runs in the sixth when it scored three times to take a 6-2 advantage. Sophomore Kevin Cardentey singled down the right field line for a RBI, junior Sean O'Keefe was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and classmate Ty Peck had a RBI-fielder's choice.

= Trailing 7-2 in the seventh, the Majors got back to within a pair. Walker hit a two-run blast over the left field fence and Avery Brock scored on a wild pitch, unearned, to make it 7-5.

= But the Bulldogs answered with another three-run frame in the eighth. Miller scored on a wild pitch and Adrian also took advantage of MC errors to score two unearned runs to restore its five-run lead.

= In the bottom of the ninth, the Majors made things interesting by loading the bases without the benfit of a hit and a run already in. But junior Elliott Edsall, Adrian's seventh pitcher on the day, got Chris Hart line out to left field to end any further damage for the non-conference win.

= The Majors had a dozen runner left on base and Adrian, nine.

= The Bulldogs outhit the home team, 10-6.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE 
= Adrian takes a 3-2 lead in the all-time series over the Majors. Before tonight, Millsaps won 5-2 in their last meeting on March 2, 2016.

= The Bulldogs' pitching staff remains second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association with 57 strikeouts to Alma's 59. The Scots have pitched 84.2 innings while Adrian has worked 50.1.

= Adrian leads the MIAA with a 3.22 earned-run average.

= Gutierrez tops the Bulldogs with a .333 batting average.  

NEXT UP
= Weather-permitting, Adrian will play at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga., at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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