2001

ECCC eeps Lady Lions; Bobcat aseball team downs EMCC 3-2 By Rocky Higvinbotham The Menc;ar 5:a.r It took them a while to finall~ get a me under for EMCC, while Kathr ine Hinton took the loss on the hill.

In Game Two, East Cen– tral led S-2 going into the bot– tom of the third before the Lady Lion>; rallied. In fact, EMCC was still down 8-6 when Casev took the hill late in the contest and tlie Lady Lions rallied with foul: tuns in the bottom ofthe sixth 1 Casey was charged with the loss, while Hinton t ook the win. Kayla Murphy had a single and double, while Gordon - a former Northeast Lauderdale standout_,__ had two singles. Ex-West Lauderdale star Randi Little also had two hits for EMCC, as did Jessica Vaughn and Shannon .Brown. • Next up: East Central visits Mississippi Delta on Thursday for a pair of games, while East Mississippi isn't scheduled to play again until next week. EMCC Baseball • Jones 3, EMCC 2: EMCC d ropped a h e art– breaker Tuesday when Jones' Jeff Rowland hit a three-run blast off of Lion reliever Steve Oglesby in the bottom of the eighth inning lifting the Bobcats out of a 2-0 hole. EMCC, which had led since taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning, couldn't fmd the answer in the ninth as it suf– fered the loss.

their re pect t e belts, but E~-t Central and East Missi:-– sippi Communny College are now officiallv m the f~-t-pitch softball wadi!. EMCC bcb&.ed ECCC Mon– da,· in n d wblehender that w& a makeup of contests pre– vio~lv rainOO out: then East Central entertaint-d Scooba Tech Tue-day aft1 rnoon in Ikcatur.· The Monda) games were the tir-.t-ever fast-pitch con– test,; for both schools, while the Tue,:.day games saw fresh– man -,tandout Emily Casey of Union threw a pair of gems at the ,;s1ting Lady Lions, help– ing East Central to 5-2 and 9- 0 wins after splitting on Mon– dav. ·casey, in addition to allow– ing just the two runs , improved her mark to 3-1 with just one walk on the day. ~Emily di d a really good job,~ East Central ~oach Mike Anderson said. She only walked one batter in both games together. "To be honest, (EMCC) was putting the bat on the ball in the first game. We just made some great defensive plays. But in the second game, Emily really threw the ball well."

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