2005

WEEK OF Cnt.lAL( ').

Pitching carries Ecce in tourney PERKINSTON -Josh Miller and Cody.~ ave II put East Central ~ommum~y College in the driver's seat. entenng the third day of the Region XXlii Baseball Tourna– ment. The Warriors' pitching duo threw back-to-hack complet gkam~s on Thursday and Friday eepmg • ECCC in prime pitching order

"(Clark) did an awesome, awe– some job," Miller said. "He did too good t~ lose. \\'e knew coming in it was gomg to be a pitching battle. It was a duel to see who was going to last longer. Once it got tight, I told coach I feel like the defense can play behind me, my pitch count is staying down and I fee! I can go the whole way." The Gulf Coast pitcher's only true miscue came in the top of the ftfth inning when ECCC's James Harris turned on a 2-0 pitch and sent a ball over the left-field wall at Ken Curly Farris Field. Harris' home run was only East Central's second base hit of the game. ECCC scratched out an insur– ance run in the top of the sixth staring with right fielder Van ' Wilson drawing a one-out walk. Taylor Petty notched hits number three for the Warriors with a single after the walk, and Corey Coward followed a strikeout with a s ingle that brought home Wilson for the two-run advantage. After the two-hit outburst in the sixth, Clark locked down ECCC's offense again not allowing another hit over the last three innings and striking out the last six batters he faced. Miller was just as nasty in the game's final third. The ECCC hurler struck out two batters in the seventh inning one in the eighth and the first • batter he faced in the bottom of the ninth inning. ''I wanted to take it upon my

at U1e region tournament. "We have only given up three runs in 18 innings" said ECCC head base- ball coach Jake Yarbor-

TONY KRAUSZ sports editor

ough. "I couldn't be more pleased "

. "(~iller and Savell) did their Jobs..Yarborough said. "They ~u~g 10 there and pitched nine– mnmg games. That is great for our guys on the pitching staff to kee everyone fresh." P · Mill;r lockE>d into a dazzling prtcher s duel with Mississippi g~ 1 If Ccoas~ Community College's I e.s lark, whose team is ho~ng~he ~egional, on Thursday. . e arnors and Bulldogs pitchers combined to give u . t nine , · h PJUS runs Ill t e opening-round matc~up the ECCC won 2 _0 MrHer-gave upilve hits ; truck oakut seven and issued two ~alks to t e the complete-game win . Cl~rk. allowed just four hits in mne mnmgs and ~truck out a ! remarkable 16 batters in a hard– ~~~ !oss.

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