1991

WEEK OF

sweep Warriors By MARTY STAMPER Star sports writer DECATUR- Gulf Coast's Bulldogs came in here Tuesday as one of the top junior college base– ball teams in the nation, sporting a 20-3 record. The Dogs struggled to take a 5-3 win over East Central in the pcner before routing the War– riors. 18-3, in the nightcap. GCCC improved to 22-3 over- ~lll and a league-leading 11 -1 in he MJCA South Division. ECCC dl to 8-12, 5-5. 0 Kenny Taylor gave the Dogs a l-0 lead in the second inning of the opener when be singled home Robert Dickerson, who had beaten out an infield hit The crucial defensive lapse of the game came in the top of the fifth. ECCC shortstop Jake Yar– brough caught Mike Young's po– pup in shallow center field and tried to double off Taylor at first. Yarbrough's throw sailed into the ECCC dugout with Taylor awarded third base. Taylor scored on Kraig Hawkins' groundout. The Dogs added another run in the frame to lead 3-0. GCCC coach Cooper Farris

STAR STAFF PHOTO/Paula Merritt ECCC's Jake Yarborough (7) tries to foil doubleplay

agreed the throwing error was a big break. ECCC then had runners on first and second with no outs in'the bot– tom of the frame, only to have BritLain Oubre hit into a double play started by Young at third base. "I think the turning point was when we get the ground ball and we turn the doubleplay in the middle," Farris said. "I thought the third baseman made a beads up

play on that because going to his left was the only chance he had at a double play. If he had come to the bag, he wouldn't have had a play at it." GCCC added another run in the sixth on Teddy Bishop' s RBI- double. The host Warriors erupted for three runs in their half of the sixth on a two-run double fromWendell

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