2010

WEEK OF

ECCCDia1nond Warriors Sweep Pearl River; Re1nain Tied for Division Lead

East Central Commu– mty College's bao;ebaJJ team raJ– bed for four I111U> in the bottom of the ~e\ enth mnmg for a 4-3 \ ctOI) m the first game, and Withstood a late four-ron rail) and held on for a 6-5 \\ln m the mghtcap to take a patr of con– lests from Pearl R" er C'ommu- Col ege Frida :cu the Clark/ Ga) 8a..'Cball Comp ex m Deca-

hJt. He al.;o \\alked a batter. Long pit<.:bed the tinal2/3 inning and fanned one batter and walked t\\0, Next up for the Dia– mond Waniors are home contests \\ ith Copiah-Lincoln Commu– nity College at 2 p.m. Tuesday and \\Jth Meridian Community College at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Sophomore players\.\ ill be rec– ogni:.::cd prior to the Co-Lin doubleheader. The MC'Cgame is a nine-mmng contest. ER~t Central concludes ~ular season actton \\ ith Jones Count) at noon Saturday. May I :u Smrth-Wtlls Stadium inJack– on. Those\ en-mning contests are scheduled. The Diamond War– nor arc led by head coach Neal Holhman and assrstanb Michael AYnJon nnd Hunter Vick.

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13-7 foiJo,\ed b) Gulf Coast (11-JJ), Pearl Rl\er 10-12), outbwest C-13) and Coptah– Lmcoln (3-1 i) Qum tokes of Carthage belted a tnple to lead the EC' ofl"eme in the opener. Other hitters were DonmeTabb ofNeshoba Central. Charles Htll and Richie Long. both of Carthage, Blake La\\SOn or Biloxi, and Vincent Kortbav.-i. a product of Hale County High School m Moundville, Ala., singles each. Kortba\.,i, Hill and Ernie TriplettofLouisville were credited with an RBI each.

tn the second game. EC jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the tirst inning and held offa late rally by the Wildcats. Long led the offense

'"ith a double and two singles and had two RBfs. Tabb contributed two singles and Andre Yates of Grenada had a double Singles each were recorded b) Kortba\\i, Stokes. Tnplett and Darmaal Moore ofStoneCounty. Moore. Kortba\\1, Hill and Yates were credited wrth an RBI each. Starter Colton \rfrtchell' asthe\\innrngprtcher and improved to 6-2 on the sea- - – son. The souihpa\\ from Lake went SlX innings and allo\\ed -–

APPEARED IN : Right-hander Tyler Dalton was the winning pitcher and im– proved to 5-1 on the season. The Winston Academy product hurled the final! 2 3 inning:. and allowed one hit. He fanned one batter and walked one. Starter Barry Meeks. also a right-hander, CARTHAG INIAN - - went5lt3innmgsandallowed APithree runs on three hits. He NEWTON COUNTY fanned four batters and walked SPIRIT OF MORTON_ one.

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three runs on the hits. He also fanned three batters and walked

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CLARIOI three. Lefty Willard Bacon of _'_ Choctaw Central hurled 113 in- ningand allm\ed two runs on one