1994

WEEK OF ECCC needs 4- finish to have shot

By MARTY STAMPER Dt: nocral ~pori!> ed1tor

East Central C'ommunitv College con dudes its 1994 baseball regular season this \\eek '' 1th South 0.\'ISton doubleheaders slah.•d for 1\Je...,dav at Southwest and Thurs· da' at Pearl River The doubleheader '' ith Pearl River is the completion of an April 20 ramoul m \ hich neither team had scored wtth Pearl Hl\cr batting wtth two outs in the bottom of the second inning of the opener. ECCC. 11-9 in the South Division and .!:1-19 o\erall. needs to win all four games to have a realistic shot at the playoffs. Even with that. if Gulf Coast wins -.~ne of 1ts remaining four games and Pearl River takes three of its final six. the Warriors will e left out of the postseason play. EAST MISSISSIPPI 4-4, ECCC 3-5: The Warriors scored three runs in the bottom of the se\enth inning to lake the brawl– marred mghtcap and salvage a split with East :\Iississippi on April 18 in Decatur. Brandon Gray tied the game at 4-4 with a two-run single. :\latt Smith, whose bean– ing had triggered the earlier brawl, follo~·­ ed with the game-winning double. Chn s Bond walked to ignite the rally. while Chris Ezelle fanned the IJames with a single. Mike Hammack 11-21 went the distance to pick up the win

South Division D1v1S1on games only (Through Apnl 26•

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Southwest 9 " All teams are e11gtble for tate tour– nament. Gulf Coast. Pearl R1ver East Central. Jones. and Southwest are competing in Dtvis1on I as far as regional play IS concerned Htnds and Co-Lin are 1n Divlston II in the bottom of the third Ricky John drove in one r un with a sacnhce fly, while Gray plated another with a single. Mark f<'anning started the rally \\ tlh a_double, ~hile John Hernngton and Chns Estes

ECCC's Tommy Holland (3-1) took h1s flrst loss Sunday agamst Bevill State

F t Mt sts:.tppt led 3-0 111 the opener before LCCC tted the ~a me with three run" at making state playoffs

holh walked. Norman Driskell's two-out si ngle gave ~MCC the winning run in the top of the s ixth. ECCC's only other hit was a smgle by Herrington. ECCC's record went to 24-17, while East Mississippi's went to 20-22. Game 1 East Miss1ssippi . . . .201 001 0 - 4 8 East Central . . .. .003 000 0 - 3 3 Game 2 East Mississippi . . 102 100 0 - 4 6 o East Central . . . . 101 000 3 - 5 7 2 COPIAH-LINCOLN S-4, ECCC 2-9: The Warriors did nothing to help their slim playoff hopes by splitting Saturday's twin– bill at Wesson. Co-Lin blanked the Warriors for six inn– ings to grab the opener. Scotty Dumas c 4-3l took the loss as he failed to get past the third inning. ECCC got two doubles from Brandon Gray. a triple from John Herrington, and one double each from Ricky John and Matt Smith. The Warriors took control of the nightcap early, scoring six r uns in these– cond inning. John went3-for-4 with two triples, while Gray added a two-run homer. Dusty Ivey hit three singles in going 3-for-4 , while Her– rington had a pair of singles. Jason Wilkins <4-3l got the win with

Dumas coming on in relief in the bottom ol the seventh. EC'CC went to 11-9 in the South Division

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Co-L1n 200 011 0 - 4 4 1 BEVILL STATE 12, ECCC 7: Todd Rollins went 5-for-5 to lead Bevill State to Sunday's win in Louisville. First baseman Chris Ingle got the Bean; off to a 2-0 start with a two-run homer to center field in the top of the first. Ingle went 3-for-5 as did pitcher Jason Jones. Jones had a solo homer in the eighth inn– ing and turned in a complete-game effort on the mound to improve to 5-9. Bevill improved to 15-38. while ECCC fell to 25-19. ECCC got an RBI-single from Shannon Cooley in the third inning, a two-run homer from Ricky John in the seventh, an RBI– double from Kevin Nelson and an REI– single from Mark Fanning in the eight, and an RBI-doublc from Cooley in the ninth. Starting pitcher Tommy Holland (3-1> took the loss, lasting 3 2 3 innings. Bevill had 18 hits to 11 for the Warriors. Bev1ll State . . . . 210 410 130 - 12 18 3 East Central . . .002 000 ??1 - 7 11 A

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