2016 Combined

WEEK OF 6 - ]1-J(Q

JUfO RA,~RALL EC falls to JCJC in region title game

By ECCC sports information

The No. 10 East Central Community College base ball team rallied from a six run deficit, but in the end fell one run short of the No. 3 Jones County Junior Col lege Bobcats in the champi onship game of the 2016 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 23 Baseball Tournament Sunday, May 22, at the Clark/Gay Baseball Com plex in Decatur. With the 6-5 win Sunday, Jones County moves on to represent Region 23 in the NJCAA Division Il Baseball World Series in Enid, Okla., May 28-June 4. It was the seventh time the two teams had met dur ing the 2016 season and the fourth time the game was decided by a single run. On the season, Jones County won four and the Diamond Warriors won three. In the second champi onship game of the tourna

A pair of East Central defenders go after a foul ball against Northwest Community

College on Thursday.

Rol>ble Robertson/The Appeal School, a passed ball, and a three-run double off the bat

But East Central got back in the game in the bot tom of the sixth. An RBI single off the bat of Will Kennedy of Union High

ment, Jones County jumped out to an early 3-0 lead after the first inning and stretched the lead to 6-0 in the top of the sixth.

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