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Winner Henderson State HSU 8-0
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Mississippi College MC 2-6
Winner
Henderson State HSU
8-0
12
Final
8
Mississippi College MC
2-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Henderson State HSU 0 0 3 0 1 2 3 2 1 12 13 0
Mississippi College MC 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 2 8 10 0

W: Cross, Austin (1-0) L: David Dunn (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | David Salley

Reddies Run Win Streak to Eight, Defeat Mississippi College

CLINTON, Miss. — No. 18 Henderson State passed its first road test with flying colors on Tuesday afternoon as the Reddies used 13 hits and three home runs to defeat Mississippi College 12-8 and improve to 8-0 on the year.

Greyson Stevens finished 3-for-4 at the plate with two RBIs to lead the Reddies. Cade Tucker, Dillon Thomas and Pate Fullerton each hit home runs to drive in a combined six runs for HSU.

Austin Cross earned the win for Henderson after pitching four innings and giving up three runs on four hits. Cross struck out three batters and walked four in his first victory of the year.

The Reddies trailed 1-0 after an inning, but scored three runs in the third to take a 3-1 lead. The big blow in the inning came off the bat of Tucker, who blasted his first home run of the year to score two.

The Choctaws tied things up in the fourth and then did the same again in the fifth after Alec Lewis gave Henderson a brief 4-3 lead on an RBI double. With the score knotted at 4-4, HSU took the lead for good in the sixth thanks to RBIs from David Vilches and Greyson Stevens.

Up 6-4, the turning point for the Reddies came in the seventh, when the pinch hitter Thomas crushed a three-run homer to right centerfield and extended the advantage out to 9-4. The home run was the first in Thomas's career at Henderson.

Mississippi College got two in the bottom half of the inning, but Bryson Haskins immediately got them back for HSU in the eighth when he came up with a two-out, two-RBI single up the middle. The Reddies took advantage of three walks and a wild pitch in the frame to maintain their five run lead, 11-6.

A solo shot from Fullerton gave Henderson even more breathing room in the ninth, as HSU held off two late home runs from the Choctaws to leave Mississippi with its eighth-straight win.

Henderson's two-out hitting was excellent in the victory. The Reddies finished 8-for-17 with two outs against them, which included four hits that drove in runs.

HSU begins Great American Conference play on Friday when its hosts Oklahoma Baptist at 6 p.m. in Arkadelphia.
 
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