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E. Central splits doubleheaderwith Gulf Coast • By ECCC Sports Information

now 28-8 overall and 14-5 in South Division league play. Gibson went 3-3 at tbe plate in the first game, adding a double to her two round-trippers. She bad two RBis for the game and scored three of her team's nine runs. Duke accounted for four RBis with her grand slam. Mallory Turner and Caitlyn Aldous also drove in runs for the LadyWarriors. Lacey Hill was solid in the circle for£ast Central, pick-

ing up the win. She surren– dered just thl'oo hits and one eamed run in six innings of work while striking out Ove Lady Bulldog batters. In Game 2, Mississippi GuU Coast plated four runs in the top of the sixth inning to grab the lead and the :>-3 victory over East Central. The Lady Warriors pulled out to a 3-1 lead with single runs in the bottom of the first , fourth, and filth innings but could not bold on. Chloe Thaggard took the

loss for East Central, giving up five runs on six hits and five walks. She s truck out eight. The Mississippi Associa– tion of Community and Jun– ior Colleges Softball Pitcher of the Week lost for just the third time this beason against 15 wins. Duke homered for East Central in Game 2, and Al– dous went 2-3 with a double. singie and one RBI. Gibson and Karoline Hol– sonback also had singics.

Powered by Katlyn Duke's grand slam and Mahalia Gibson's two home runs, the East Central Community College Lady Warriors took Game 1 of a softball double– header, 9-1, over the Missis– sippi Gulf Coast Community College Lady Bulldogs April 1 on the Decatur campus. Mississippi Gulf Coast won Game 2, :>-3. With the doubleheader split, the Lady Warriors are

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