1998

East Central plays hardball D Warriors play six road games DH in eight days fanned four batters a nd Wood collected his eleventh allowed onl) three hits Wood homer in the second game and wa5 rh.:: leading hitter with two added a single. Willis a l so singles , and Chad Ch...mpion homered and drove in a second added a double. run. Linzy Gre:::.et of Carthage Although they've lost top

was drhten in by one of ihe stru-ter Seth Herbert and closer Wood singles 10 the seventh Clark Tyson, head coach J amie inning. Clark said the Diamond War- Brian Hardy took the loss in r iors are still in the playoff the second ~ame against Pearl hunt. River. while for the Warriors "We lead Jones by two Justin Chaney and Bo Grace games for the second regional each had a pair of hits, and playoff spot, and lead Co-Lin Dustin .tlatbew popped a dou- by one game in the state play– ble. off chase. If we were to get our In the two lo::.se:o, to Gul f pitchers back, our chances Coast, Hardy took the first one would improve considerably. and Dan Gre::::.et was assessed We a r e j ust two games out of tne second los::.. first behind Gulf Coast, and In ilie opening game, Math- even though we have had our e-s dinged a homer and a pair share of injuries we are in the of singles. In Ute second game, thick of things like we have Jay )lcLendon collected three been with four weeks to go," hits . Joey Sm..th had a triple, Clark said. and doub.es were made by Clark went on to say that Willis , Meadows and he felt his team would be in Matthew... . good shape if they could return In the Hindb series, East 1 their injured players by t he Central lost the opening game end of the season. 10-7 but won the nightcap 11-5. The Diamond Warriors sur- Champion took the loss, but vived their toughest road Wood's got stupid with the bat swing of the season and now as he hit two homer:. and col- prepar e to host a number of lected five RBI's . Meadow:~ games over the next two weeks added two hits to the cause. starting on Saturday.

East Central Communi:y College's Diamond Warriors maintained the.r :,econd-place stand ing in outh Division action folio" .n~ a weekend split ''nth hnmestandin!:! Pearl River on Sa~.miar, .Ia.reh 28. . E~t Centr al, 11-15 overall and 6-4 in league play, won the first £ame 2-0 and dropped the second 6-0. The PRC sen es was the fi nal one of a six-game road trip , in wh1ch the Warr ior s dropped a double-header to Gulf Coast, March 25, and split decisions with Hinds on March 17. The h ighlight of the road trip was the record-setting per– formance of Greg Wood . He slapped three home runs over the six games, giving him 20 for his caree r. He brok e the previous re cord of 18 in a caree r set by Brandon Williams. In the first game at PRC, Jason Willis got the win as he

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