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Warriors avoid trouble, then run By Marty Stamper Special to The Star in the first," Warriors coach Jamie Clark said. "The double play killed the rally and seemed to give us a lift. That was a mighty big play... while the seventh run scored on Scott Fulcher's single.

Jamie Rainer added a sacrifice fly in the second inning, while Patterson made it 7-1 with a single to left field. Patterson ended up with a 3-for-4 night with three RBI. "He had gone through a terrible slump, something like 18 or 20 at-bats without a hit," Clark said. "And tonight he comes out swinging the bat real well. He's play– ing much better third base too, like we thought he was capable of." Triplett and Boykin finished with 3-for-5 efforts and a couple of RBI each. Boykin also scored five runs. Cramer had two hits and two RBI.

The 15-H Warriors then sent 12 batters to the plate in the bottom of the frame and scored seven times on only three hits. After a pair of leadoff walks by EMCC starter Darin Yates (Q-1), Alfred Triplett and Joey Boykin hit RBI singles. After another walk sent Yates packing, Rusty Cramer's grounder got past the Lion shortstop cu; two runs scored. Scott Allen was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to extend the lead to S.l. Jimbo Patterson added a sacrifice fly,

DECATUR -East Central's Warriors barely avoided a disastrous beginning, then created havoc for East Mississippi for the rest of Monday night's 17-7 junior college baseball win. The visiting Lions had taken a 1-0 lead on a Kenny Tew single in the top of the first and had runners on the corners with only one out. Warrior shortstop Keith McGee fielded Keith Terry's grounder to start an innmg-ending double play. "They had a chance to do some damage past Lions "Cramer and Boykin have been red hot for the last five or six games, " Clark add– ed. "It was good to see Triplett come out swinging the bat." The visiting Lions (15-18) used a Tom Slovick double and a Warrior error to get one run back in the third. Slovick had the best night of al1, going 4-for-4 with two doubles. The Warriors went up 12·2 with three runs in the bottom of the third on doubles by Triplett and Boykin, three Lion errors, and an RBI single by Patterson. The Lion" ,..based ECCC starter .Jef! SEE ECCC 78...

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Continued From 3B Crocker with a three-run fourth. Alex Mears and Slovick doubled, while Will Arnett had an RBI single and Tew a sacrifice fly. The Warriors scored two unearned runs in the fifth, and used a solo homer from Allen in the seventh, and Cramer's RBI double in the eighth to add to their total. . . . . Mears added a sacrifice fly for EMCC m the f1fth, while a pa1r of wild pitches in the ninth led to the Lions final run Greg Smith (1-2) allowed one run over the middle three innings to get the win.

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