Behind a barrage of seven runs on eight consecutive hits in the fourth inning, East Mississippi Community College’s baseball team easily captured a 10-5 win over visiting Itawamba Community College Tuesday in Game 1 of a doubleheader before splitting the series with Indians in Game 2.
The two teams traded solo scores through the first three innings of Game 1 with Miles Mitchell putting the Lions up 1-0 in the first with his sixth home run of the year. Itawamba answered in the second with an RBI double by Tyler Pickens, but EMCC (14-23, 8-6) went right back on top in the second with another run for the 2-1 lead. The Lions came alive in the fourth with seven runs, two of which were created by Caidan Bullard’s two-run blast, and a sacrifice fly by Logan Flaskamp in the fifth put the team up 10-1.
The Indians rallied for three runs in the seventh but fell short of the comeback with only one more run in the ninth. The Lions outhit ICC 15-9 with Sam McClinton Jr. leading the team with four. Jax Joyner (3-3) got the win on the mound through 6 ⅔ innings of work. He gave up eight hits and one earned run and struck out six.
Game 2 turned into a pitchers duel on the mound as both teams struggled to land hits, but a few timely hits for the Indians led to a 3-1 victory.
A double and a sacrifice fly by ICC gave the Indians a 1-0 lead in the first inning, and Tre Gunn drilled a solo homer in the second to soften their cushion. Three innings later EMCC got on the board with one run in the fifth. Reid Kent put the finishing touches on the win for ICC with one more solo home run in the sixth.
The squad was back in action Friday in a doubleheader at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and will play Jones College in another doubleheader at home on April 11.
Softball
In Tuesday’s doubleheader at No. 14 Itawamba Community College the Lions saw the entire spectrum of the sport. In Game 1 they were held to just four hits and were walloped 17-0 in a game that lasted five innings, and then flipped the script in Game 2 with a much better performance that saw them fall 2-1 – despite being outhit 7-2.
A 1-1 tie created by a Lions (9-23, 1-15) run in the second inning and an Indians score in the fourth was broken in the bottom of the seventh by ICC. Itawamba’s Victoria Fields smacked a triple to get in scoring position, and Zoe Goodman walked the Lions off with a single to left field. EMCC’s
Savannah Mitchell and Savannah Fralix were the only two to land a hit with one each as the Lions struggled to make contact off ICC’s Ramsey Montgomery. She feasted in the circle and fanned 10 batters with zero walks though all seven innings. EMCC’s Allee Bennett fell to 3-9 on the season as she gave up two earned runs with two strikeouts and two walks.
Like the baseball team, EMCC’s softball squad played at Copiah-Lincoln Friday and will be back on the field at Jones College on April 11.
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