2007

East Central sweeps EMCC ~ Hol~nes in key division contests E:a't Central Commun1ty Col– ECCCHolmes Doubleheader

lege', fa..,t· pitch ,oftball team mo\ed a 'tep closer to qualifying for po..,t-,ea.,on play following dou– ble-header -;weeps of Ea<>t Missis– .,jppi and Holme' community col– lege teams last week. The Lady Diamond Warriors posted 6-5 and 9-5 victories over Ea..,t Missbsippi Saturday afternoon m Scooba and claimed 7-4 and 8-5 deCI\IOn\ over llolmes April 18 on the Goodman campus. With the victorie.... EC improved to 15- 17 overall and 9-3 in MACJC Central Dl\ 1\tOn competition under fourth-\ear head coach Seou Hill. (The o~erall total al..o mcludes two douhleheader forfeit<; from South– v.e..,t.) The Lady Diamond Warriors ha\ e two di\ i...ion double-header<., remaining and both arc home con– te-.t~: Meridian Community College on Wednesday, Apnl 25 and the reg– ular -.ea-.on finale with Hinds Com– munity College on Saturday, April 28. The match-up~ with Meridian begin at 3 p. m. and the doublehead– er with Hinds get~ underway at II a.m. The MACK' State Tournament is scheduled May 3-5 and the Region 23 Tournament is set for May I0-11, at 'iites yet to be announced. In the f N \\in O\er the Lad) Lions, \\ hitnee \\'hue ot ~ Central led the ffense \\ Hh a Ulple and l\\O Stn!!lc'. Sondreia Hillie. aho of :-:c,hoha Central. had anoth– er produdhe outin~ a' 'he homered and -.ingled. Other player' recording two hih each were Shenique Bra... s of Ph1ladelph1a. double and single: and Je.,..,1ca Shannon of Carthage and Ltnd'>c) Stc\ en' of \le\\ ton Count}. tv.o 'ingle-. cal.h Laura Smith of Ne-.hoha Central al'>o ~in­ glcd. White and Ste\Cll'> were abo credited with two RB I., each. Runs were '>Cored hy Htllte (2). Brass (2). Smith and Shannon. EC scmetl single n.m., in the fir~t. second. sixth anti sc\enth innings

Smith doubled and -.ingled. and Brass had two singles to lead the FC offense in the first win over Holmes. Smith ~as also cred1tcd with two RBis and scoretl a run. Brass also scored. Hillie also had a produtt1vc out– ing. as she blasted a home run and knocked in• three runs. She ulso scored. White had a double and scored two runs. Singles were recorded by Kennedy. Shannon and Candace Griffin of PhilaMiphta. Griffin also hatl an RBI. and Shan– non scored a run as did Steven' EC trailed 1-0 after the fir'>! _ inning then rallied for ~i:< runs in the fifth and added an insurance run in the ~;eventh. Holmes scored its other t\\O run' in the sixth. Chandler went the di,tance for EC on the mound. allO\\ 1ng four runs. on nine hits. She tanned eight batt~s and walked none. In the second contest, EC over– came a 5-2 four-inning dcftcit hy scoring two runs in the fifth. one in the seventh and three in the eighth Brass led the EC offen'e with a homer and two single' Steven~ al o homered . Othc \\ere Hillie. doub e and d S tb. t e e 'lute. eale. :St~ \e L nd C) Lillie of Ne\\ ton Count~. 'mgle each. Smnh and Steven~ also had two RB!s each. and Little and Griftin l..nocked in a run a piece.

Runs were scored b} Kennedy (2). Brass (2). Hillie. White, Shan- non and Steven.... Chandler hurled four scorelc'' ::-: :~ - 3{0CP~ T ______ 1nmng-. to p1ck up the win for EC. She allowed ju\t t\\O hit-. and :~rr : ~ F.ECO"::~ --------– fanned fi\'e batter.... Seale v.as the -.taner and ga\·e up II\'c runs on EPJDL~ 1 5T ~R --------- – ,e,·en has. She fanned one batter.

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