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Lady Warriors hold serve with sweep I By Marty Stamper special to The Star

\ICC starting pitcher Gabby Morgan was relieved following a walk to Whitnt·c White. Reliever Shanese Hunter walked the first two bath.:r~ she faced to load the bases with no outs. Lindsev Stevens made it 10-9 with a sacrifice fly and Kristen Pillsburv reloaded the bases when -.he bt•at out an infield hit when no one coven.·d first base. A walk to Amy Sharp tied the game and Hailey Chipley ~cored the ""inning run on a fl}" ball to shallow center field by Emily Thra,.;h. The Lady Warriors played long ball in th<.• win as White had a three-run homer in the third inning and Stevens hit a -.olo ...hot in the fourth. Billie went 3-for-4 with a triple and ..;cored three runs. Bras~ aho had a double and had three RBI. . Erin Breland (3-1) got the win with four innings of relief of ECCC. starter Codee Russell. "We were kind of shellshocked because \llcridian came out hit ting gapperg," ECCC coach Scott Hill said. "They were hitting the ball hard. It didn "t matter what we threw up there, they tattooed it to right center or ldt-et·nter "We probably could have made See East Central Page C3

DECATUR - Both Ea~t Cen– tral Community College and ~leridian Community College entered \\'t•dnesday afternoon's doubleh(•ader rha..::ing Hind" Com– munity College in the ~IACJC Central Divbion fastpitch ·--tand– ings. It would be the ho t l..adv War– rior that pulled C\ en v.:ith 'Hinds \\ith an 11-10,11 3 sweep ofi\ICC. Both three-time defending Cen– tral! >ivision champion ECCC and Hind arc• 6:2 111 thc.k·agl.l.e-.MCC fell to 4-4. Ea~l Missisgippi Com– munity College cnrl"red the day at 2-4. whilt• Holme:- Cwnmuuity Col– leg£' was 1}6. Meridian appeared to bl in con– trol of the opt>ner as the Lady EaRles hammered 14 hit~ and took a 10·5 lead over tlw first iour innings. MCC managed just one more hit over the finalthn•e frames. but still carril'd a I0-6 kad into the bottnm of the s<•venth aftt'r ECCC left the ba·w~ loaded in the sixth. llte ~eventh inning would be a nightman• fot• MCC. SondrPia Hillh.: led off with a triplt• to right (ield and scored when Sheniquc Bra~ homered to center field to trim MCC's lead to 10-8. 'llH~ comeback conlinut•d when

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BACKHAND East Central Community College s Knsten Pillsbury shdes tn to back hand the ball in left field against Meridian Community College Wednesday.