1994

with their work cut out of the second on a bases-loaded walk to Ricky John after Michael Petyak and John Herrington had singled a nd Chris Estes had walked to load the sacks. Game 1 Hinds .

. 020 020 0 - 4 5 East Central ........ 011 100 2 - 5 9 Game 2 Hinds . .. ... . ...... 011 211 0- 6 12 2 East Central . . 001 200 1 - 4 10 1 ECCC 13·7, ITAWAMBA 3-2: Dusty lvey continued to swing a hot bat as he slapped a pair of home runs to lead ECCC in the opener Sunday afternoon at fo'ulton. Ivey also had a s ing le. Brooks Bryan and Chris Estes both had a single and a double, while Shannon Cooley and Michael Petyak both had two singles. Brandon Gray added a double. Jamie Mormw C3-3) was the winning pit~ cher as he threw the first four innings. Bryan tossed the next two, while Mike Hammack threw the seventh frame. Stephen Hood homered for the Indians of ICC, while Chris Willis took the Joss. Kevin Nelson homered for ECCC in the second game, while Ivey, Ricky John, Chris Ezelle, and Matt Smith each had two hits. One of J ohn's was a double. Tommy Holla nd (3-0) was the wmning pitcher. He went five innings before hav– ing to leave with a groin pull. Hammack ~hu.t out the Indians ~ver the final two mnmgs. With the sweep, the Warriors improved to 20·13, while Itawamba fell to 14-19. Game 1 · East Central . .013 142 2 - 13 14 ltawamba .. 120 000 0 - 3 5

Asacrifice fly from lvcy drove in Bran– don Gray with the tying run in the bottom of the third. ECCC went up 3-2 in the fourth when Shannon Cooley singled in Brooks Bryan who had reached on a fielder's choice. Hinds took a 4-3lead in the top of the fifth and turned the game over to Chad Brad– ford in the bottom of the seventh. lvey took Bradford's fourth offering deep to give ECCC the win. Gray had two singles for the Warriors. Gray, who entered the day with a .404 batting average, came back to hit two doubles and a single in the mghtcap, but Bradford scattered 10 hits just enough to salvage a split for Hinds. The Warriors closed a 4-1 deficit to 4-3 on a two-out, two-run smgle by John in the bottom of the fourth, but Hinds got a solo homer from Brian Scoggin to lead off the fifth and a run-scoring infield single by Cedric Stewart in the sixth Gray doubled for ECCC in the fifth and Ivey followed with a single, but Ron For– sythe and Matt Smith struck out to kill that ralh Ivey drove in Bryan with a sacrifice fly tn the bottom of the seventh John had a single and a double for ECCC. while Ivey had a pair of singles. Jason Wilkins took the loss ECCC went to 9-5 in the division and 18-13 overall. Hinds went to 8-6 and 21-12.

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