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Couldn’t ask for much more from the first game of the Maloney Trophy Series. Millsaps, playing its season opener, got a two-out, two-run single from Andrew Evans in the bottom of the ninth inning to top Belhaven 8-7 today at Twenty Field. Evans, a senior from Ocean Springs who had six RBIs in all of 2011, got four today, including the game-winner off Blazers closer Josh Clarke. BU, now 5-2, had taken a 7-4 lead in the top of the ninth on a three-run homer by Anthony Doss. What a start for the compelling small college round robin that includes Millsaps, Belhaven and Mississippi College.
P.S. Bill Hall will go to spring training with the New York Yankees on a minor league contract. The Nettleton product excitedly broke the news himself today on Twitter, saying he wants a ring. Of course, making the Yanks won’t be easy. Hall, 32, hit .211 with two homers in 185 at-bats in the majors last season. And offense is his game. … And this just in: Roy Oswalt, the pride of Weir, is still unsigned. Cincinnati has joined the list of teams that may or may not be interested.