2007

· SAFE AT HOM£ - d a~ Community College's Toddrick Stevenson scores a run for the Eagles as East Central Community College s Chrs Parkman ii es • 0r1 he plate to force an out Saturday afternoon. -

Eagles keep rolling along, sweep E~CC

By Robby Atkinson spe-- a to The Star e Meridian Community Col– E, Ea;:-le::. continued their amazing through the 2007 season by · ~a doubleheader sweep (6-1,6- 0\er M.-\CJC Central Division Ea"-t Central on Saturday at gg=> field. ~'hen you can get a pair of wins conference play it is always key, 11 MCC head coach Chris Rose. e had a great pair of pitching per– Cam:ances and we had several guys the lineup that had great days the plate." The Eagles improved 23-5 overall the ~007 c;eason and moved its nference record to 4-0. MCC will ::eturn to action on Monday as the cle~ travel to Tuscaloosa to take ':.elton Slate in a doubleheader. ThE- first pitch for the doubleheader ... ,._:heduled for 4 p.m. 'eridian 6 East Central 1 got a solid pitching per– fr phmore Lee - n fifth inning to

take the game one win over the \Var– riors. Swindle (4-1) tossed five strong innings for the Eagles and collected seven strikeouts. 11 1t was a ver y domi nant per– formance,11 said Rose. 11 This was a great start for him and he did a great job of locating pitches and get– ting some big outs for us. 11 The game remained scoreless for the first four innings until the Eagles scored all of its runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-0 lead. David Woods led the inning off with an infield single and Toddrick Stevenson fo11owed with a double to left to put a pair of runners aboard for the Eagles. Matt Hol– liman reached base on a walk to load the bases and the first run of the game scored on a hit by pitch of Michael Guerrero to give the Eagles the 1-0 lead. Tyler Moore followed with an RBI fielder's choice and Jarrod Park added an RBI single to give MCC a 3-0 lead over ECCC. Scott Mosley knocked in a run (or Meridian on a bunt single and another pair of runs scored on an error by the Warriors to give MCC a 6-0 lead.

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·~ FORCED OUT East Central Community Coll9ge's Jacob Thames forces out Community College's Drew Snider as he ooks to throw to f rst urday afternoon.

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The only run for the Warriors came on a double by Chad Gosselin. ~Meridian 6 East Central 4 Meridian used a five run second