1998

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State Champion Warriors Complete Season Action

of Philadelphia took the loss, as the eagles jumped out to a 3-0 first innings lead and held on for the victory. Freshman walk-on pitcher Danny Rushing of Edinburg relieved Hardy in the second and completely shut down the Eagle offense over the final eight innings. It was Rush– ing who came on in relief in the Diamond Warriors' win over Gulf Coast for the state title on May3. East Central. which scored its love ;un in the seventh innmg, was 'ted at the plate by Clark 1 yson of Jonesboro, Arkansas, who had a double. Against Delgado, the D1amond Warriors led 3-l lead into the seventh only to have the Dol– phins tally three runs mainly on ECCC miscues. Delgado added two runs in the eighth to seal the victory. East Central was led at the palte by Greg Wood, of Decatur. whose solo blast gave the Dia– mond Warriors a 1-0 lead in the fourth: Jay McLendon ofBiazon whose two-run homer gave the i mond Warriors a 3-1 margin u. e sixth; and pinch hitter nith of Philadelphia \ ho:-.e clinger tied the conte:-.t at 4-4- it..,., eight. Dustin Matht!w" o ~\.: nroe, LA, al o doubled for the Warriors.

with a 32-22 mark under elev– enth year head coach Jamie Clark, began tournament play by defeating East Mississippi I 0-0 Thursday night then fell to Delgado 6-4 on Friday night. The win over the Lions was es– pecially sweet for Coach Clark as it marked his 300th victory as ECCC head coach. In Saturda)' s matchup with MCC. sophomore Brian Hardy

MERIDIA"i'---\fter winning a first e\er sate ...hampionship in baseball, the EC Diamond War– nors set then sights on claim– ing region 23 Tournament Title. But such was not the case as the ECCC squad was eliminated from competition after falling 3- 1 to eventual Champion Merid– ian Communi~ College on Sat– urday afternoon. East Central. which fin ishes

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Tyson took the loss for EC in relief. Also on the mound were

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