Mississippi College softball wins first game in first hosted NCAA Regional

CLINTON, Miss. (WLBT) – Mississippi College took on West Alabama (34-18) in game one of their very first home NCAA Regional Thursday night.

The Choctaws started scoring early, with senior catcher McCall Lee sending her first at-bat over the wall and giving MC their first lead of the game, 2-0. West Alabama found their way around the bases at the top of the 4th inning to make it 2-1, but the Choctaws responded well over the next three innings.

Mississippi College didn’t allow another run for the rest of the ball game as senior pitcher Camryn Bailey finished the day with eight strikeouts.

The Choctaws scored four more runs by the bottom of the seventh inning, winning the contest 6-1.

After coming up short in the Gulf South Conference Championship game last week, the team was determined to get back to their winning ways in NCAA Regional play.

“After the tournament, we all just decided that we need to take things and play our game with it,” Lee said. “Not play anyone else’s game but do what we do. I think today we really showed that. We stayed calm and did exactly what Mississippi College softball does, and if we continue to do that I think this regional will work out in our favor.”

“We played really good today,” Bailey added. ” We had fun today compared to the last game we played. We all played as a team. We all played as one and today was a good start to the tournament.”

“We just played relaxed,” head coach Brooke O’Hair said about the team’s performance in game one. “We had fun with each other and we kept encouraging each other and just did our jobs.”

Mississippi College will take on Tampa in Round 2 of the Clinton Regional on Friday at 12 p.m.

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