2011

Soaring Eagle

Paula Merritt/ The Meridian Star Meridian Community College's Darren Farmer IS congratulated by teammates after hitting a homerun scoring three against East Central Community College Saturday.

Meridian extend w1n streak to seven games By Robby Atkinson Spectal to the Star Meridian Community College headed into the second day of the 2011 Rush Invitational Tournament looking to continue its impressive win– ning streak and the Eagles survived a huge scare. East Central provided plenty of drama in the second game of the day, J but MCC was able lo hold on for a 5-3 victory to extend its winning streak to seven games. ( ECCC took a 2-llead over Meridian heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Eagles used two home runs to take the lead for good. Freshman right fielder Wade Wass and former West Lauderdale s tandout Darren Farmer provided the offensive spark in the inning for Meridian. "We give a lot of credit to East Cen– tral for playing such a hard game today," said MCC head coach Chris Curry. "I am proud of how we battled back late in the game after trailing and we need to olav a littl<> bett~>r df>fPn

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