MEMPHIS, Tenn. --- Caleb Peterson struck out a career-high 11 as Mississippi College baseball held on for a 3-2 win over Christian Brothers on Thursday, April 2. MC improved to 22-14 and 15-7 in Gulf South Conference. It is the sixth GSC-series opening victory of the season for the Choctaws.
 
Peterson (4-3) allowed just three hits and no earned runs in 8.2 innings, while walking one, facing 32 batters and throwing 71 strikes in a 101-pitch outing. Blake Gollott (3) recorded the final out on four pitches to earn his third save of the season, which leads the team.
 
MC managed four hits, three of them doubles, but did enough offensively in the early innings. The Choctaws took a 1-0 lead in the first when Cade Gadman scored on a double play, then added two more in the third as Jake LaRocca delivered a two-RBI double to plate JT Thigpen and Will Langston. It marked the third multiple-RBI effort of the season for the Lake Charles, La., native.
 
Thigpen doubled, walked and scored a run. Langston reached base three times after being hit by pitches and also scored.
 
CBU (9-25, 4-18 GSC) cut into the deficit in the seventh, capitalizing on two errors to score a pair of unearned runs and make it 3-2. But the Buccaneers were held without a hit over the final two innings as Mississippi College preserved the win.
 
The teams continue the series on Friday, April 3 with a doubleheader. First pitch is Noon.
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