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I LOCAL SPORTS East Central swings into action By Austin Bishop/Special To The

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DECATUR- Opponents of the East Central Community College baseball team will definitely be seerng double this year, and veteran ECCC head coach Jamie Clark hopes they hate every mtnute of it.

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"Our pitching staff will definitely be built around the Migliacio boys," Clark said of twins Mario and Monte. The 6-foot-4 right-handers were keys to last year's team and are expected to be the big guns this time out. "Overall I am really pretty upbeat about our pitching," Clark said. 'That ts going to be our strength. And Mario and Monte obviously play a pretty big role in that. They are good, smart pitchers who know how to use their defense and get ground ball outs." The Warriors went 20-29 last year, which is something that irks Clark a little. "That's the worse record we had since 1 988," Clark said. "But there were a lot of reasons for that. One of them was we didn't hit." Despite the losing mark, ECCC qualified for the Region 23 tournament and came within an eyelash of beating Gulf Coast. one of the tournament favorites, in the first round . "We were ahead of them 6-4 and were one out away, but we just couldn't get it done," Clark satd. The next day ECCC fell to Mississippi Delta in a tight game and was eliminated. "I think this year's team is going to be a better hitting team than last year's," Clark said. "But we still are going to have to create some things. We won't have as much power as we have had in years past." While Clark said his Warriors would be wide-open on the base paths and wouldn't hesitate to steal bases or bunt the runners over, he also said they would have to be smart.

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