2012

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series will be Friday night at 5 p.m. and the final two games of the weekend will be Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.

win for Russell while Andrew Culpepper got the save. ECCC Softball Squad wins three at Northeast MS CC East Central Community College's fast-pitch softball squad won three of five con– tests in the Northeast Mis– sissippi Community College Invitational held Feb. 24-25 in Booneville. The Lady Diamond War– riors recorded victories over Lane College and Three Rivers by 9-1 margins in Friday's competition, and picked up a 1-0 victory over Itawamba but lost close deci– sions to Calhoun (3-2) and host Northeast (5-2) in Sat– urday action. In the win over Lane Col– lege, EC's offense was led by Kaetlen Brown of Deatsville, Ala., who pounded a double and two singles. Brown is a product of Edgewood Academy. Also recording multiple hits were Kelsi Watson of Smithville, Brittany Pounders of Southeast Laud– erdale, Dakota Vowell of Neshoba Central and Haelie Allen of Leake Academy, all with two singles each. Mary Sanders of Vidalia, La., was the winning pitcher. The Adams Christian Academy product fanned seven batters and allowed just one run on three hits in the five-inning matchup. EC's scoring onslaught con– tinued against Three Rivers, as the Lady Diamond War– riors tallied four rups in the fourth inning and four in the fifth in cruising to the easy victory. Lajoya Griffin .of Philadel– phia homered and singled, Watson blasted a double and two singles, and Brown col– lected three singles to lead the offense. Vowell also had a product outing at the plate

and recorded two singles. Griffin was also the top run producer with three RBis. Watson and Vowell were credited with two RBis each. Other hitters were Allen and Marlee Massey of Neshoba Central, singles each . Tenna Patterson of Lex– ington, Ala., was the winning pitcher in the five-inning battle, allowing the one run on four hits. She also fanned six batters and walked one. The EC offense was not as productive in the loss to Cal– houn, as the squad managed just six hits. Haylee Roberts led the offense with a double and RBI. Singles each were recorded byMassey, Pounders, Brown, Allen and A]. Peeler of Neshoba Central. Brown took the loss, allowing three runs on five hits in the six-inning matchup. She fanned four bat– ters and walked three. In the shutout ofltawamba, Massey led the offense with three singles. Peeler scored what eventu– ally became the winning run in the second inning. Allen was credited with the RBI. Patterson allowed just one hit and fanned 10 batters to record the victory. She also walked a batter. The Lady DiamondWarriors concluded the two-day event with a loss to host Northeast. Roberts homered and Brown collected two singles to lead the offense. Other hitters were Massey, Peeler and Griffin, singles each. Sanders took the loss, allowing five earned runs on nine hits. East Central, now U4 under

The Meridian Commu– nity College Eagles have announced that their scheduled doubleheader with East Central Commu– nity College has been changed to this afternoon at 2 p.m. The twinbill with "the Warriors was originally scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, but the threat of heavy rain has caused the games to be moved up a day. MCC will look to extend its current five-game win– ning streak when it makes the short drive to Decatur today. The Eagles defeated Alabama Southern on Friday afternoon by a final score of 3-2 to extend its winning streak to five games. Former West Lauderdale standout Wes Stokes led the Eagles to the win by tossing seven innings and collecting three strikeouts. Kasey Hinton, a Clark– dale product, currently leads MCC in hitting with a .400 batting average and is ranked fifth in the country in stolen bases with 12. Wade Wass has had a solid start to the 2012 season with six home runs and currently leads the NJCM in the same cate– gory. East Central (4-6) will enter play against Meridian looking to rebound from its early season woes. The Warriors have lost five of coming into the double– header with the Eagles. ECCC played East Mis– sissippi over the weekend and split a doubleheader with the Lions (3-1, 1-6). MCC is still scheduled to open a three-game series with Northwest Florida this weekend at Scaggs Field. The opening game of the

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Winona Christ ian 15 Meridian Home School 0 The Flyers trip to Winona was not a happy one as three Winona pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter against them at Winona. The Stars blew open the game in the first inning as they scored nine runs in the first inning against Meridian pitcher Tucker Perry. . They weren't done either. Winona scored three runs in the third inning and three more runs in the fourth inning. Perry took the loss and drops his record to 1-1 on the young year. Perry was hit hard for seven earned runsinjustthreeinnings of work. The Flyers (2-1) will travel to Columbus today and take on !manuel Christian. Russell Christian Macon Central 4 Russell remained unde– feated on the young season as they traeled to Macon and played Macon Central Academy in baseball action Monday. Baylie Etheridge had two hits in three plate appearances as Russell won by three. Camryn Lee also gathered two hits for Rus– sell. Russell scored a run in the second and third innings to lead 2-0. Russell then erupted for four runs in the top of the fourth and ended the night by scrap– ping across a run in the top of the sixth. Jacob Stephens got the 7

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head coach Scott Hill and assistant Kristin Chaney,

travels to Holmes Community College in Goodman Monday, Feb. 27 and journeys to Baton Rouge Wednesday. Feb. 29. Game times are 3 and 5 p.m. for each doubleheader. -- ..... - ...... - .. __ _..._ .... , ________