1990

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Neshoba Central grads are bright spots for ECCC baseballers

Academy, lead ih the stolen base category with 5 each. Wendell Whitehead, a freshman outfielder from Newton, has the second-best home run output as he bas blasted 3 round-trippers. The Diamond Warriors are 9-14 overall and 2-6 in South Division ac– tion prior to games scheduled March - 31 on campus with Jones Junior College. Remaining games scheduled in– clude Gulf Coast, there, 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 3; Pearl River, home, 3:00p.m. Saturday, April7; East Mississippi (single game) home, 7:00p.m. Monday, April9; Copiah– Lincoln, home, 4:00p.m. Wednes– day, Aprilll; Holmes, there, 12:00 noon Saturday, April 14; Southwest, home, 4:00p.m. Tues– day, Aprill7; Loyola (single game), home, 7:00p.m. Friday, April 20; Loyola, home, 3:00p.m. Saturday, April 21; Holmes (single game), home, 7:00p.m. Monday, April23; Hinds, home, 7:00 p.m. Wednes-~ day, April 25; Jones, there, I:00 p.m. Saturday, April 28; and Gulf Coast, home, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 1.

Pitcher-outfielder Donald Culber– son and outfielder Scott Hines are battling each other for top offensive honors on the East Central Com– munity College baseball squad, ac– cording to statistics released by Dia– mond Warrior head coach Jamie Clark. Through games played as March 30, Coach Clark said Culberson, who's hitting .351, has the team's best batting average followed by Hines' .342. Culberson, a sophomore, and first-year player Hines are both graduates of Neshoba Central High School. Culberson also leads in home runs (6) and RBis (22). He is also second in hits (26), second in doubles (4) and second in triples (2). Hines leads the team in hits (27), at bats (79), triples (4) and shares top honors with sophomore out– fielder Joey Boykin, a Winston Academy graduate, in runs scored with 19': Hines has the squad's second-best RBI total with 17. Hines and Boykin, along with freshman third baseman Jamey Champion of Demopolis (Alabama)

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