2005

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. Lady Warriors come up short·on last day of State/Region XXIII tourney By Marty Stamper staff writer

~ We couldn't expect to shut anybody ·down. They're a good club.

DECATUR- East Central Community College's best softball season in school history came to an end with a third-place finish in the MACJC State/Region ·XXIUTournament Sunday afternoon following an 8- 1 loss to Northeast Mississippi Community Col– lege. The Lady Warriors wrapped up their season with a 34-5 record. "We don't have anything to be ashamed of," said ECCC head coach Scott Hill. "The girls have had a heck of a year, and I'm really proud of them. We would have liked to have gone on, but that's the way it worked out." ECCC had several scoring threats during the game, but could only manage one run which came in the top of the fifth inning. Obreisha Davis beat out a two-out bunt and Kristin Chaney followed with a single to left field. Davis scored on a double to the fence in right-center field byAbby Miller. ECCC stranded nine runners in the game.

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including seven in scoring position. The Lady War– riors left two runners on base in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. "We needed a hit or two here or there," Hill said. "We couldn't expect to shut anybody down. They're a good club, and they had already shown that they can hit the ball. We knew we needed to hit the ball. We hit it, we just didn't hit it at the right time." Chaney, Davis, Dominique Mapp and jennifer Smith each had two hits for ECCC. Marley Smith (18-1) took her first loss of the See Lady Warriors Page B3

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Goldman', single to center field staked the Lady Tigers to a three-run lead. Nor theast added two mon• runs in the fourth. Hass hit a leadoff homer to center field. Neal drew a walk and scored on a sacrifice fly by Goldman. The Lady T igws answered ECCC's r un with a lt•ad-off home ron by Torie L\lalone in the bo ttom of thl' sLxth. '\or theastadded t\\o more insurance runs in the sixth on a single by Yates. a double by Kim Pannell and two ECCC errors. ·nlC Lady Tiger · had nine hits . Yates went 3-for-J with a double. Bass was 2-for-3. Goldman had two RBis.

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season. In two innings, she allowed four runs on four hits. In ECCC's ftrst four games in the tournament, she was 3-0 and had thrown 386 pitches in 29 innings. She had allowed 15 hits and eight walks, while striking out 22. Northeast took control early, putting up three runs in bottom of the second inning. Amber Hass led off with an infield hit Kclli Neal followed with a single that scored Hass when the ball skipped by Allison McDaniel in left field. Kelly Yates made it 2-0 with a double, and Maria -------------------

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