a triple play

Mississippi College will take the field on Friday as a nationally ranked team. The Choctaws are No. 25 in the first d3baseball.com poll. Led by preseason All-America pick Bo Bell (.323, three homers, nine RBIs) and Tyler Seaman (3-0, 1.96) — the son of former Jackson Met Kim Seaman — the Choctaws are 8-1. They play Schreiner at Kerrville, Texas, this weekend. ... Belhaven will honor Hill Denson for his 1,000th career victory prior to Saturday's 1 p.m. game against Spring Hill at Smith-Wills Stadium. ... Kudos to Tougaloo for getting its first win of the season on Wednesday at Mississippi Valley State, a Division I program. Now the Bulldogs can take some swagger into their next Gulf Coast Athletic Conference series, at Loyola of New Orleans this weekend, and shoot for that first-ever conference win (see previous post).