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]ones Co untyJC earns doubleheader sweep over East Central CC By Reed DeSalvo The Meridian Star

center to load the bases. Stiglets came home on a Tyler Graves RBI groundout and Stark later scored on an ECCC fielding error. East Central (9-13, 3-3) posted their best scoring threat in the sixth. Trailing 2 0. Ben Cooley pinch hit and slapped a single to right to begin the frame. FolloWing a sacrifice and a groundout, the next two Warriors batters base safely. With the bases loaded, Ratliff (2-0) managed to induce a weak ground ball to escape unscathed. ''You have to have a clear mind," Ratliff said. "You can't Jet anything get to you. That's what coach (Ostrander) preaches to us. To stay in your zone and stay the same throughout the whole game." Jones County added two insurance runs in the ~eventh on Josh Pankratz'~ ~harp smgic~ to center v.;th the bases loade~· In eame 2. Oc;trander ackn 1 >wledged that his squad See 51 mP on page B2 ___

DECATUR- The Jones County Junior College base ball team proved why it's cur rently the top-ranked team in the latest NJ CAA poll. On Tue day. the Bobcats swept a doubleheader over MACJC South division foe East Central Community Col lege, 4-0 and 5-1, at Clark/Gay Memorial Field. JCJC (23-1, 4-0) received dominating pitching perform ances from Lane Ratliff in Game 1 and Daniel Goff in the second game. The two pitchers combined to toss 12 scoreless innings, striking out 16 batters and allowed just seven hits. "It's great anytime you got guys on the bump that can hold the runs down," Jones County coach Christian Ostrander said. "If you get those kind of quality starts out of your pitchers, you're going to have the chance to win."

of... I just thought we could have competed a little bit better." In the first game, the vis iting Bobcats opened the scorirnz in the third with two runs. Steven Stiglets began the frame with a sharp single to center. Following a sacrifice bunt and a hit batsman Trent Giambrone singled to l~ft

Despite emerging victorious in Game 1, Ostrander was not pleased with his team's overall performance. "4-0 game, some people would think that was JZood. but we didn't play a good ball game." Ostrander said. "I didn't think that we played great defense, we didn't hit the ball like we are capable

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