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"Turk played well.~ ECCC even. head coach Jamie Clark said Chris Ball singled and of his sophomore shortstop. scored on a wild pitch for "He made some nice plays E:MCC in the top of the fifth. today and made some at The Lions tied the game Southwest and made some at on RBI-singles by Andrews Hinds." and Josh Perry in the sev- The Lions tied the game enth. Only two fine defensive on a saqi:fice fly from Jaron plays by ECCC first baseman Andrews in the top of the Monte Migliacio and Warrior third and went up 3-1 in the reliever Chris Comans (2-1) fourth on REI-singles from kept the damage from being Lowros and Brandon Bar- greater -There's an opinion out ret~ he Warriors used four there, and I kinda agree with walks and a grand slam from it. iliat the softer the field, the better the defense is Bradford to reclaim the lead going 0 be;" Clark said. "The in the bottom of the fourth. ball is going to be coming Three consecutive walks by slower and is not going to Steve Oglesby loaded the take a:> many bad hops. bases and a sacrifice fly from '".iaybe that had some– Dee Hornesburger pulled tbtng to do with it, but I ECCC to within 3-2 think we're getting better Johnthan Allgood ( 0-1 defen-tvely. I hope that's walked Reed to reload the what it is." bases and Bradford followed The Warriors got the eventual winning 1'Ul'! in flie ,lam and that got them a lit– bottom of the s event.... tle fire, but it was a well– Chamblee reached on a field- played game for all the mud." er's choice and scored on a Bradford. who entered the bases-loaded fielder's choice ga..rnt: batting .175. led ECCC by Stovall. at the plate with a 2-for-2 Chamblee turned in a night that al;;o saw him hit defensive gem with a sliding by a parr or pitches in addi– catch of a fly ball by Buckley tion to receivmg a walk. The to left-center to start the Warrior, had only six hits, eighth inning. but received nine walks. The Lions threatened to Coman:; tossed 3 1/3 pull even irl the top of the innings of relief to get the nin th as they loaded the win. ..,.bile Black-well pitched bases after the first two bat- the ninth to get his second ters were retired. save. Corey Blackwell then got EMCC bad seven hits, all Buckley to ground out to ofwhich were ;;;ingles. Hornesburger at second base The Warriors. 12-15, will to end the game. host Jones m a South Divi- "It was a well-played sion doubleheader at 1 p .m. game," EMCC head coach Saturday. while the Lions, 6- Bill Baldner said. "I hate the 20, will ho"'t _Tortheast Mjs– three walks after we had sissippi in a North Division taken a 3-1 lead and then a twinbill s.. ~rday at 2 p .m . grand slam, but that's the "The b_; thing is, if we way we've played all year. beat Jones, it gets us right We've lost eight or nine one- back in the middle of the run games and every time Retrion 23 race," Clark said. we've had a chance to win Marrj Stamper s a sports writer "(East Central) played for The Mern:liao Star. E-mail him at hard and they got that grand "5ta.-r.pe•emem~ dianstar.com. NEW I U N tu:'-'UKU_________ MERIDIAN STAR._____________ CLARION-LEDGER.______

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th€ first inning. East Central's Hal Thompson lined out to sec– ond baseman Ashley Chism, who threw to first base to

double up Kent Chamblee. Lion first baseman Josh Buck- ley then fired to short– stop Tyler Lowros to retire Lewis Bradford to complete the triple play.

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The Warriors took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning as Turk Stovall singled nd ,cored on a throwing error b" Lowros. Warrior third baseman Ju- tin Reed made a tough running catch in foul territo– rv and Stovall had a nice pia~ a:: shortstop to retire

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