(From the Millsaps College website)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A day after being held to just five hits and one run in a pair of defeats, Millsaps exploded for 21 runs off 20 hits to earn a Sunday split at Rhodes and hit the Lynx with their first conference loss of the season. Box Score

In a 12-4, run-rule victory in Game 2, third-year head coach Roland Rodriguez became the first coach in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference history with 200 career victories, compiling a 200-152 (.568) record in nine total seasons in the league.

Millsaps pounded out six doubles on the day from six different players in addition to a triple and two home runs as they salvaged the final game of a four-game series.

In the opening game of the day, Millsaps scored single runs in the first three innings off a pair of Jennifer McKinley RBIs but trailed 8-3 after surrendering four runs in the first, three in the third and one in the fourth.

Just when it looked all but over for the Majors with two outs in the sixth and an 8-4 deficit staring them in the face, Kasey Thibodeaux's RBI-double and Jenny Laird's three-run homer capped off five unanswered runs for Millsaps that put them in front 9-8.

The lead was short lived, however, as Rhodes responded after a scoreless sixth with a two-out rally of its own in the seventh, plating the two winning runs for a 10-9 victory. Cindy Bitters' pinch-hit, two-RBI single down the rightfield line provided the winning hit.

In the weekend finale, Millsaps scored two runs in the first for an early lead before surrendering four in the bottom half to fall behind 4-2 after one complete.

After a scoreless second for both teams, Millsaps retook the lead in the third, 6-4, with four runs thanks in part to three walked batters that all crossed the plate off a bases-clearing RBI-double from Laura Litton with two outs.

The Majors would go on to plate a single run in the fourth off Amanda Berry's RBI-single and five more in the sixth to earn a shortened, 12-4 run-rule victory.

Thibodeaux moved to 6-7 in the circle in her 12th complete game of the season, striking out a season-high eight and scattering just three hits the final five innings after giving up four runs and three hits in the first. Bitters, the hero in Game 1 from the plate, was tagged with the loss to fall to 7-4.

McKinley and Tiffany Ladnier each picked up four total hits on the day, in addition to Erica Douglas with three, whereas Litton set a career-high with four RBIs in Game 2.

Millsaps will continue a stretch of eight consecutive road games this weekend, traveling to Birmingham-Southern for a four-game series with the 25-3 Panthers on Friday and Saturday. Live stats will be available for all four games.