1998

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state championship

Warriors win the pennant The East Central Community College Warriors celebrate the final out in their ·1s-a win over Gulf Coast for the MACJC cham– p•onshrp Sunday afternoon in Scod a. The 31-20 Warriors take on East Mississippi Thursday at 7 p.m. in the first round of the Regron 23 Division I Tourname at Meridian Community College. 1

in the bottom of the third, EC pu· the bottom of the eighth. They went on to game away with a six-run fifth fr lDle. add an insurance run as Clark Tyson Willis' grand slam, his 11th hom r of walked and scored on a sacrifice by the year, highlighted the inmng. Ron Perkins. ' Wood had drawn a bases-loaded walk Mathews, Willis, and Weaver each prior to Willis' blast. had two ofEC's nine hits. Dan Gressett (9-2> tossed the first The 34-16 Bulldogs had four six innings, striking out 10, to get the homers in the loss with Johnny Her– win . He allowed five hits and ix bert, Bo Long, and Brandon Davis · walks. going deep along with O'Quine. Wood had five RBis and scored Both teams had nine hits. Gulf three runs. Willis went 2-for-4 wtth Coast committed five errors, while EC five RBis. had three. .. EC had eight hits to seven for the Tyson (3-2) tossed the final 1 1/3 Lions. inning_:; to get the win. ·

single with EC's 12th run scoring on a thro~ing err or on the play. Mathews added another single to score Wood and complete the 10-run frame. After that, Danny Rushing Cl-0) threw four shutout innings, allowing only one hit and one walk, to slam the door in the Dogs' face. Rushing tossed the final 6 2/3 innings in relief, striking out six, to earn his first win of the season. "I'd be lying if I didn't say I wa~ nervous," said Rushing. a fre, hman walk-on from Edinburg. "h.'s the longest I've pitched all 3eason. It was