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• I twinbill Warriors stand in third By Marty Stamper Sp:clal to The Star DECATUR- Standing pat and running out of games. "Tonight he got some help from some of the other guys." ECCC had 23 hits in the twinbill.

"Crocker continues to give us good pitching efforts," Clark ad– ded. "It seems like he's gotten better every time out over the last four weeks. I thought he had a real good fastball (clocked in the 80-84 mph range by a Chicago White Sox scout), but it was his breaking ball that r eally kept them in trouble throughout the game. " ECCC scored two runs in each of the first four innings, got four in the fifth, and ended the game with two in the sixth. Donald Culberson, Wendell Whitehead, and Clay Courville each had two hits in the nightcap. Whitehead and Steven Burleigh drove in two runs each. Whitehead was 3-for-4 with three RBI, while Burleigh went 2-for-4 with four RBI for the day. "I think you have to give Steven credit," Clark said. "He hasn't started a conference game this year. He caught two games today and threw out runners on two steal attempts. I thought he did a real good job of handling the pitchers." Burleigh got in the game in the first inning of the opener. replac-

That's the situation East Cen– tral's Warriors face after split– ting a Sout h Division doubleheader with Hinds Wednesday, taking the nightcap, 14-4, in six innings after losing the opener, 10-6. The split leaves theWarriors in third place two games behind No. 2 Pearl River, which split with Southwest. ECCC is 1o-10 in the division, 2o-19-1 overall. Pearl River is 13-9 in the division. Hinds fell to 8-12, 26-18. Only the top two teams advance to next weekend's state tournament. "We're very close to being rea ll y good enough to do something, but we're not quite there," ECCC coach Jamie Clark said. Joey Boykin's bat and Jeff Crocker's pitching enabled the :warriors to remain in the playoff picture and equal the school's r ecord for wins in a season (20 set in 1989). Boykin went 3-for-4, scored three runs and drove in four in the nightcap. Crocker (3-2) tossed a two-hitter. "He has been blazing hot as of late.," Clark said of Boykin.

runs in the sixth inning to claim the opener. The last six came with two outs. Scot Cochran had a three-run homer, while Clint Sims had a two-run shot. ECCC's game with Mary Holmes set for tonight at Louisville has been cancelled. ECCC's next action is a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Jones Saturday. First game HCC...............................100 108 0-10 12 0 ECCC............................. 010 004 1 - 6 11 4 WP- Darren Dietrich (8-4). LP- Brian

ing starter Scott Allen. ··we're not going to allow anybody in our program to pop off " Clark said. "The catcher popped off to me when I went out to the mound, so I decided to give him the rest of the doubleheader off. " ECCC took advantage of seven Hinds errors in the second game. Derrick Davis drove in three runs for Hinds on a fifth-inning homer. . Leading 2-1, Hinds scored e1ght

Senn (3-9). 28 - Nick Buchanan, Van Reed, HCC; Donald Culberson, Eric Davis, ECCC 38 - Jamey Champion, ECCC fiR - Scot Cochran, Clint Sims, HCC. Multiple hitters - Buchanan, Reed, Steve Fisher, HCC; Champion, Culberson, Steven Burleigh, Davis, ECCC. Second game ECCC.............................. 222 242 -14 12 2 WP - Je!C Crocker (3-2). LP - Nkk Buchanan (4-2). 28- Joey Boykin, Eric Davis, ECCC. 38 - Wendell Whitehead, ECCC. fiR - Derrick Davis, HCC. Multi– ple hitters - Boykin 3, Donald Culberson, Whitehead, Clay Courville, ECCC. HCC...................................010 030 - 4 2 7

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