1996

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DECATUR- All sea~on the East Central Community College baseball team has bad good pitching, but over the last fe\\ game::. the Warriors are swinging the bat also. · The rejuvenated hitting has helped En:>t Central strE>tch its winning ,trea k to four in a row. With an 8-7 win over '\\'nllace tate-Selma Thursday night , the Warrior.;; record impro\"es to 9-7 while Wallace– Selma dropped to 13-10. De::.ignated h1tter Greg McBride lead the Warrior hit– ting charge. The sophomore from ev."ton ''hen 2-3 and had a two !:-. e on balls. He also ha d an RBI nnd :-cored three time::. Strutin~ p1tcher Willis Lally scattered five hit~ over eight innmg::; to p1ck up hb fourth win of the ~ea~on for a record of 4-2. Lally had 'ix ::.trikeouts and ga'lle up four run::.. The Warrior:s jumped on the Patnots earh. ECCC got three runs on four bib in the first inning making ,olid contact on Wallace starter Ju,tin Hoppe. ECCC got a two out single from Tommy Bost and M t:Bride drove hun m wtth a deep dou– ble off the vo all in left center Marcus Tbame, followed with a deep RBI double to score McBride. Ray Ivy then cleaned off the bases with an RBI sin– gle The Warriors took a 3-0 lead. "After eight games we were bitting . 201," ECCC coach Jamie Clark said. ''The last eight games ' ' e've really worn the ball out - hitting the ball much better." The Patriots were able to fight back in t he third scoring four run~ on three hits to take a 4-3 lead. CARTHAGINIAN

East Central's Mick Garrity executes a b . Jon Tidwell Je d off the

:-.itting the Patriot' down one– two-three The fifth mnmg was the bigge t off the Warr ior ba ts. Bost hammered a leadoff homer to give ECCC a lead they would never give up. The Warnor" got four runs on five hit, m the inning giving ECCC a -4 lead Lally wn ... brilliant through– out the re' t of ht~ stay getting ,.tronger each 1nning. Joey Rid~on came in to relieve Lally in the eighth. but was uneffec– tive and gave way to Jason Latham . Wallace put the scare on the Warnor' relief pitchers in the mnth threateni ng to tie the game. \Vallace scoring three run on th ree hits, sacrifice bunt and daring baSE> running. Latham fi nished off the Patriots serving

up a ground up lea tying run on third. He coltec'tPII his first save of the seas ~ "They' r e as gri tty a , bod;> we've played,"' Clark "They put pressure on they play good defen, e. pitcher throw it ove!' the The Wa rrior:; bos Rivers today at 6 p doubleheader and face River again Saturday at 1 for a single game. wscc 004 000 003 - - 5 ECCC 301 040 OOx - 8 2 WP - Willis lal~ 12-1 ) LP– Hoppe Save - Jaso~ Lat!la: - Greg McBride Marcus ECCC 38 - None. H!=l - Bost, ECCC: Jason Lay, ~ Multiple hitters - Ca Bost, McBride , Th a,..., .s Crowe. ECCC; B a Tidwell, WSCC Records - Central (9-7), Walla~-~

inmng for Wallace with a sin– gle and moved to third on hvo fielder's choices. Matt Robertson got a t\\ o out single to score Tidwell. J ason Lawson stepped up and smadhed the only bad pitch Lally threw over the leftfie1d fence for a two-run homer. Lally then walked Townsend who moved to second on a pa!'t ball. Townsend then scored on Bill Martin's RBI double. McBride led off in the third for the Warriors getting a bas•• on balls. He then moved to .:;e. - ond and third on a succession of past balls. Then after two oub, J onathan Crowe legged out a bunt single to score McBride making it a 4-4 ballgame. Lally buckled down on Wallace m the fourth and fifth

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