1989

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cNeer lanks CCC

By Marty Stamper Special to The Star

DECATUR- Clarke Collecre's Panthers knocked off East Een– tra1 8-6 at Chris Gay IV Field ruesday behind an outstanding long relief effort by ).like McNeer. With Clarke starter Charles Tilden suffering a case of ex– treme wildness, ~lc!\eer. a ttansfer from Mississippi Delta, came on in the second inning and shut out ECCC over the final seven inning, striking out 11 in the process. . ''He did a heck-of-a-job.'' Clarke coach Steve Renfrow said. "He's thrown 18 innings since last Thursday. McNeer shut out Itawamba m a,4-0 win Friday. . Clarke jumped on ECCC starter John Mark \Yilliams for fow· runs in the first inning Se– cond baseman Doug Barber led off with a solo homer to left field. \fter singles by Nick Buchanan and i\fichael Cole, the 12-6 Pan– thers added two runs when an at– tempted pickoff by catcher Dale Radley at third base was wild a nd then overrun by left fielder Ke\·in Cochran. Joey Case scored he fourth run on Willie Short's Ingle to left. The Warriors got one run back n the bottom of the first thanks to four walks from Tilden. Yet 1th the bases loaded a nd no outs. more damage could have een done. "We stressed not swinging at anything that fools us until we

Clarke's Joey Case slides safely into Home ahead of John

ble by Donald Culberson. McNeer shut the door the re– mainder of the contest, allowing four hits (three of the infield variety) and a pair of walks. Clarke tied the game in the fifth when Lincoln Gumbs ripped a one-out triple in the left-center field gap and scored on Short's ground out. Catcher Keith Hawsey gave the Panthers a 7-6 lead with a one-out homer over the left-field fence in the seventh. After McNeer struck out the side in the eighth, Clarke got an insurallC€ run when Cole doubled and scored on a two-out throwing er– ror by McGee at short:slop "Hawsey got the big hit and that run in the ninth was bie

get two strikes," ECCC coach Jamie Clark said. "The guy's up there trying to walk the world and. all of a sudden, we're swing– ing at everything he throws - cbangeups in the dirt, fastballs high and outside. We just didn' t play smart. "If we play conference games with that kind of concentration, we're going to get embarassed." Clarke used another ECCC er– ror and an RBI smgle by Case to take a 5-1 in the top of the second. The 8-9 Warriors got a single and two more walks from Tilden in the bottom of the frame to load the bases. Enter l\IcNeer (3-0). After surrendering a bases– loaded walk, a two-run single by Keith McGee, and a two-run dou-

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