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lead but the Bengals responded with three runs in the bottom of the frame, added three more runs in the second inning and held the 6-1 advantage through three innings. EC added anoth– er run in the fourth inning and two in the sixth and trailed 7-4 after five. The Bengals tallied four runs in the sixth and another run in the seven, when the con– test was called due to the eight-run rule. Quin Stokes and Charles Hill. both of Carthage, each had a double and sin-

:\ second WUl over Louisiana State 1,; m' ~- Euruce in the Region 23 1i - nt was not to be for the East ::al Ur.nmurut) College Diamond \\ -; ~ ::o iell12-4 Saturday nightto ~'tnrual tournament champions in • ram~la)ed event held at Joe G. loss field on the Hinds Community COU...-ge campu m Raymond. £ast Central, which finished 39-19 •r founh-year bead coach Neal H6lli.man, bad taken a 1..0, first-inning

gle to lead the EC offense. DonnieTabb of Neshoba Central. Andre Yates of Grenada, Richie Long of Carthage, and Vmcent Kortbawi, a product of Hale County High School in Moundville, Ala., bad <;ingle each. Kortbawi, Stokes and Ernie Triplett of Louisville were credited with an RBI each. Gabriel Thibodeaux and Zacb Kirksey homered to lead LSU-Eunice. Starter Tyler Dalton of Winston Academy was among five hurlers for

ors eliminated EC and took the loss. The right-hander allowed one earned run on two hits dur– ing 1!3 inning.

sixth. The Diamond Warriors tied the contest at 8-8 on Andre Yates' sacrifice fly in the seventh, but the Eagles snapped the deadlock in the eighth inning on Grant Morris's two-run triple and added two more runs in the frame and held on for the win. Allen Job.J;lson of Leake Aca– demy took the loss in relief. Johnson hurled 7 1!3 innings, allowing four 1 earned runs on nine hits. He also fanned l See BASEBALL, page 9A

The ECILSU-Eunice match-up was set up by the Diamond Warriors' 12-8 loss to Hinds earlier Saturday. After the Eagles had taken an early 4-0 lead, East Central rallied to take a 6- 5 advantage on Richie Long's two-run homer in the bottom of the fourth. But Hinds regained the lead at 8-6 on Nick Schneeberger's three-run blast in the