2005

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Silent \Varriors ground Eagles By Tony Krausz sports editor DECATUR-Jake Yarborough didn't say a word. · East Central Community College's head ., We had a chance to wrap up conference on our own, and we didn't rise to the occasion.

baseball coach refrained from delivering a between– game speech to his team following a tough 4-3 loss to Meridian Community College in the opening game of a Central Division

MCC head coach Chad Caillet

"Every game we play now is very impor– tant." Yarborough -:aid. "I'm just proud of the way our guys jumped on tlwm early and did a • good job of swinging the sticks." l\lCC. which would have clinched the Cen– tral Division titlt' with tv.o win:. over ECCC, couldn't stop the chargin~ Warriors from the start in the second game of the doubleheader. ECCC swung through three l\1CC pitchers. as the Warriors slapJWd the Eagles around for 11 runs on five hits. MCC also committed two errors in the doubl<'·diJ.dt run first inning. ·nlC Warriors sent 15 batters to the plate in thl opening inning. ECCC's Chris Pierce and Taylor Petty Pach hit two-run singles, and Van Wilson hit an Iml double. Tht• Warriors also scored one run on a fielder's choin· and two runs off two seperate Eagles' errors. ECCC's Corey Coward capped the first– inning scoring with a three-run home run over the l<'ft·field wall. "It's very, very, very di-;appointing," said Eaglt's head coach Chad Cailkt, whose team is 33-7 overall and J:~-1 in tht• Central and fini:-;h the season with a doubleheader against

doubleheader on Tuesday. The silent treatment worked. as the War– rior· scorched the Eagles for 11 runs in the fir::.t inning of the nightcap en route to a 16-3 victory to earn a split at Chris Gay IV ~lema­ rial Field. "We didn't talk. Nobody said a word." Yarborough said of the time between games one and two. "Our guys knew w~at the had to do. I didn't need to give a speech. They knew what to do, and that was basically it." The split put ECCC's overall record at 23- 21, and the Warriors are 4-10 in Central Divi– sion play. The game-two win kept ECCC on pace in the playoff hunt, as the Warriors' entered Tuesday a game behind East Missis– sippi Community College. If EMCC swept Holmes Commw1ity Col– lege on Tuesday, ECCC will need to win its final two games of the c;eason on Saturday against Hinds Community College to tie EMCC for the final playoff spot. If EMCC split with Holmes, ECCC can clinch a post– season berth with a sweep of Hinds or a share of the final spot with a split on Saturday.

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