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SCOOBA - The East Central Community College Warriors and Donald Culberson used the long ball as they defeated East Mississippi 12·7 Monday afternoon. Culberson hit a pair of three– run homers, one in the third and one in the fourth, that overcame a 3-0 deficit and helped stake the Warriors to a 9--3 lead. That gives Culberson six homers for the season. Wendell Whitehea

Special photo by Paula Merritt EMCC's Joey Wofford slides under the tag of East Central's Scott Hines

hitter." Clark agreed about Culber– son: "He's got a lot of talent and he has really gotten stronger in the past vear. He hit a couple of shots today," Clark said. The Lions jumped out with three runs in the bottom of the first with Mike Deavers and Scott Istre both delivering run– scoring singles. That knocked out Warrior starter Brian Jones before he could complete the in– ning. David Luke came on and shut the Lions down for the next 31/a innings to pick up the win and push his record to 2-2. ECCC struck for four in the third and five in the fourth. The Lions got a run in the fifth but

and that is not battling." The Lions had 12 hits for the game, but Baldner was disap– pointed in his team's perfor– mance. "We have four of five guys that are just not playing with any intensity right now. This is the second game in a row that it has been that way." ECCC............... 004 530 000-12 14 4 EMCC................ 300 120 010- 7 12 1 WP - David Luke (2-2). LP - Brian McKee (3-1)). 28- Wendell Whitehead, ECCC; Will Arnett, Joey Wofford, EMCC. 38 - None. HR - Donald Culberson 2, (6), Whitehead (3), ECCC Multiple Hlt. ters- ScottHines 3, J oey Boykin, Culber· son, Scott Allen 3, Whitehead, ECCC; Kentry Adams, Mike Deavers, Arnett, Wofford, EMCC.

ECCC answered the call with three in the fifth with Scott Hines getting J.ln RBI single for his third hit oflhe day. ECCC us– ed five pitchers on the day with Brian Senn, David Hubbard and Jeff Crocker. "I got into a situation in where we are playing a conference game on Wednesday and I couldn't use Senn and Hubbard but for an inning or two. I thought that Hubbard and Crocker pitched well." The downfall of the Lions was the fact they left 10 men on base. "There were just two many guys left on," Baldner said. "We were battling back in that we got men on base but we didn't get them in

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