1982-1986

ECJC baseball

plans finalized

riors program. He will be assisted by Ricky Harrison and Larry Blackburn, who teach inthe vocational department at the college. • Smith also said in his release that because of support demonstrated by citizens in the district, an establishment of the East Central Junior College Baseball Foundation was formed. The foundation will help raise private funds to offset the reduction in state money. The foundation will also promote and provide financial assistance to the bseball program in the future. Plans are in the works to have the foundation fully operative by the end of this month. For additional information on the East ·Central Junior College Baseball Foundation and ways that interested people can help, Smith suggests that you please contact head baseball coach Larry Gressett, or A. J. Kilpatrick, athletic coordinator for the school.

According to East Central Junior Col- 1ege President Dr. Eddie Smith, plans for the 1986-87 baseball program at East Central Junior College have been finalized. . In a release last week, Smith said that it has been determined from the response of prospective players, area coaches, parents, and other supportive people in the five county district that there exists adequate interest to justify a revitalized baseball program at East Central. , The release also announced that any interested player should attend a special meeting to be held at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, July, 29th in Newton Hall Auditorium on the campus of E.C.J .C. This meeting wiil be held for the purpose of discuss– ing plans for the 86-87 fall and spring seasons. Larry Gressett, presently men's basketball coach at the Decatur-based school, has been tapped to lead the War-

ECJC Splits With Clarke In Season Opener

The Warriors of East Central Junior College opened their 1986 baseball season by splitting a double-header with Clarke College in Newton. Clarke too~ the first game, 4-2, and the Warriors won the second, 8-3. In the opener, East Central made several key fielding errors in allow– ing Clarke to score three unearned runs. · 11.~t proved to be all that Clarke needed as the Warriors could score only two runs while collecting only three hits. Isaac Harris gave up just four hits for the Warriors in absorb– ing his fi,rst loss of the season. J In the second game, the Warriors scored three runs in the second inn– ing and never· looked back as they went on to claim their first win of the season. Mike Bassett had two hits and Kevin Lyons drove in two runs in leading the Warrior attack. Chris

Hemphill went the distance giving up three hits in picking up his first win of the campaign. The Warriors then travelled to Pearl River College where they were defeated 18-2 and 8-1 in the after– noon's double-header. Pearl River was up 10-1 at th~ bot– tom of the first inning of the first game and EC never gained the momentum to make a comeback. In the second game, PRC's solid batting netted eight runs while EC could on– ly pull in one. East Central hosted the game against Copiah-Lincoln later in the week. Poor fielding errors and hitting caused East Central's double loss,13-5 and 11-3 respectively. The Warriors take a break this week, but return to action on Tues– day, March 18 as they travel to Southwest Junior College.

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