2011

LadyWarriors sweep Holm.es By Marty Stamper ,

games open MACJC South Division action. EC 10-11 Holmes 2-3 The Lady Warriors improved to 4-0 with last Wednesday!s sweep of Holmes at Decatur. Both games were called alter 4 1/'.2 innings due to the eight-run rule. In the opener, Rr·ittany Pounders launched a two-run homer down the 1·ight-field line in the first inning and liaylee Hnbel'ts added n three– run blnst to left field in llw rumth tramc 'l'nylor Bailey (2·0) got the win ullowing two hits and o < walk, while striking out five. Abbie .Joiner hnd a IIuylee Hollet·ts u pair of singles. Roberts also had twq RBI. Summer Alexnndel' had a double. Taylor Bailey ( 4-0) got the win, allowing one run on five hits. She struck out four and walked one. NWShoals 7 EC 6 Northwest Shoals erased a 5-1 EC lead with six runs in the bottom of the fourth inningSaturday. EC had tallied five times in the top 'of the ~hird. EC, 6-2, M.d sL'C hits

triple and a si ngle, LaUJ·en Nicholas had two singles, and Summer Alexander had a single and a double. In the nightcap, Pounders had three sin– gles and three RBI. Kasie Buckley (2-0) got the win and had two singles and three RBI: In the circle, Buckley allowed one earned run on four hits. She fanned four batters and walked two. Nicholas and Joiner, both from Neshoba Central, had two singles apiece. Laurel Burnett of Neshoba Central added a triple. Continued on 6B... See Sweep...

Appeal Sports--E-d-ito_r_ The East Oentral Community Colleg-e l.ndy Warriors went ·1·:1 on the softball diamond last week, sweeping IIohnes and going 2-3 in Uw 2011 Northeast TigerFcsl ut Northeast MissiRsippi Community College "in Booneville. EC entered thiH wet>k with a 6-3 record. The Lady Warriors were slated to go to Shelton State in Tusca– loosa, Ala., on Monday, go lo Copiuh Lincoln today, then cJoo;c out the wt•ck a.t home aguiii:st .Jorw" on Friduy. Tht Co·Liu rwd ,Jones Sweep... Continued from 48... EC 1 ,John Logan 0 'l'nylor Bailey (3-0) to'lscd a two-hit shutout as EC knocked off the Lady Vols !rom illinois Fl'iday at Booneville. Bailey recorded nine strikeouts. The Lady Warriors, 5- 0, got the game's only run in the third inning on a Rfll single by Bailey that pluted BriUany Pounders. Railey and Summer Alexander both had two singles out of EC's six hits. Indian Hills 8 EC __ 2

EC catcher Haylee Roberts applies the tag at the plate on Holmes' Lyn Browning in last week's 10-2 win in the first game of their dou– bleheader. EC sports a 6-3 record entering this week.

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Watson each bad a single. Kasie Buckley (2-2) took the loss, allowing five earned runs on nine bits - two of which were home runs - and a walk. She struck out four. Itawamba 8 EC 4 The LadyWarriors fell to 6-3 with Saturday's loss to Itawamba. Itawamba took a 5-0 lead with five runs in the top of the third inning and led 8-1 before EC tal– lied three times in the bottom of the seventh. EC had 10 hits \vith Abbie Joiner going 4-for- 4 with four singles. Kasie Buckley and Brittany Pounders both had horne runs. Buckley also had a t;inQ'le and two RBI.

'fhe Iowa team spotted EC two runs in the top of the first, but took control with four in the bottom of the first and three more in the second inning of .Friday's contest. EC. 5-1, had just four hits with SuiDIDer Alexander getting a dou– ble and two RBI. Lauren Nicholas, Abbie Joiner, and Kasie Buckley each had a single. Buckley (2-1) took the loss, allowing nine hits and a walk while striking out six. EC 5 Southwest Tenn. 1 The Lady Warriors used a five-run fourth inning to knock off Southwest Tennessee Saturday.

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with Lauren Nicholas get– ting a pair of singles. Bt·ittany Pounders, Summer Alexander, lluvlcc Roberts, and Kelsi