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SCOOBA – The East Mississippi baseball team closed out its 2010 campaign by earning home doubleheader splits with division rival Northwest Mississippi and Bishop State this week at Gerald Poole Field on the Scooba campus.
In their season finale on Wednesday, the home-standing Lions bounced back from a 7-4 setback in the first game to claim a 12-2 victory in the nightcap over visiting Bishop State from Mobile, Ala. During Tuesday’s division closer against Northwest, EMCC dropped a 6-4 decision in eight innings in the opener but came back to post a 2-1 win over the Rangers in the second game.
Under the direction of fourth-year head coach Tony Montgomery, the EMCC Lions completed the 2010 campaign with a 23-25 overall record and 9-15 mark within the MACJC’s North Division.
With EMCC splitting up pitching duties by throwing five hurlers in Wednesday’s opener against Bishop State, the Lions were victimized by five errors, including four miscues in the latter stages of the game, in dropping the 7-4 decision to the Wildcats.
At the plate, sophomore Drew Vaughan had three of EMCC’s seven hits in the opener against Bishop State, including an RBI single to cap a three-run first inning for the Lions and a sixth-inning double. Freshman Mitch Bohon, of West Point’s Oak Hill Academy, contributed a two-out, two-run double down the left field line in the first inning.
Trailing 2-1 after four innings in Wednesday’s nightcap against Bishop State, the Lions rallied for four runs in the fifth and then scored seven more times the following frame in batting around to invoke the 10-run mercy rule with just one out.
Columbus native Billy Autrey, the starting center on EMCC’s state championship football team who is headed to UAB, capped his Scooba playing career with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate. Vaughan, a sophomore by way of Columbus’ Heritage Academy, closed out a 5-for-7 afternoon against Bishop State by going 2-for-4 in the nightcap with two runs scored and a two-run single in the Lions’ seven-run sixth inning.
During Tuesday’s opening contest against Northwest Mississippi, the Lions came back from a 4-0 deficit to tie the contest at 4-all by sending 10 men to the plate in the fifth inning. However, after scoring the four runs on just one hit, EMCC couldn’t additionally take advantage of four walks, a wild pitch and an error by leaving the bases loaded in the fifth.
The visiting Rangers took advantage of some wildness from EMCC relievers Andrew Graham and Cody Pounders in the eighth inning. Following three walks and a wild pitch, Drew Griffin stroked a two-out, two-run single to left off Pounders to give Northwest the 6-4 extra-inning triumph.
Tuesday’s division finale proved to be a classic pitching duel between EMCC’s sophomore left-hander Derek Beach and Northwest’s freshman right-hander Tarus Hervey. Both pitchers combined to allow only six hits – all singles – in their complete-game decisions.
With Beach holding the visitors mostly in check through six innings, the Lions managed to produce solo runs in the second and fourth innings with Hilton Gibson and Tyler Aldridge both scampering home on wild pitches. Beach did encounter some danger in the fourth when Tyler Benson and Seth Milliorn led off with consecutive singles. After getting Joel Rich to pop up in the infield, Beach’s shutout was temporarily preserved with back-to-back fielding gems by Vaughan at second base and left fielder Randy Frederick.
While the Lions were still holding onto their precarious 2-0 lead despite managing only a pair of singles, Beach once again ran into trouble in the seventh inning. After Rich opened the frame with a single and moved to second on a wild pitch, Griffin drove him home with a single to right-center. With the potential tying run on base, Beach settled down to strike out both Hunter Parham and pinch-hitter Chris Gullick to seal the 2-1 victory.
A former standout at Heidelberg Academy, Beach went the distance, giving up only four hits with five strikeouts and just one walk, to earn his third win of the season.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 30 April 2010 )
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SCOOBA – Advancing to postseason play for the second straight year, the Lady Lions of East Mississippi will meet the two-time defending state champions of Copiah-Lincoln Thursday afternoon in opening-day action of the 2010 MACJC State Softball Tournament being held on the Itawamba campus in Fulton.
Set to begin at 2 p.m. at ICC’s Softball Complex, EMCC’s first-round contest against the third-seeded Lady Wolves of Co-Lin is slated to be aired online at www.colinathletics.com and broadcast locally in the Wesson area on WMJU-FM (104.3).
South Division champion East Central will meet fourth-seeded Holmes from the North Division Thursday at noon to begin the two-day, single-elimination tournament. Other opening-day pairings will have No. 1 North seed and host Itawamba taking on fourth-seeded Pearl River of the South Division at 4 p.m., followed by South runner-up Mississippi Gulf Coast against No. 3 North seed Northwest Mississippi at 6 p.m.
Seeded second in the North Division, head coach Kate Neely’s EMCC Lady Lions completed the regular season with a 20-29 overall record and 18-6 league mark to finish as divisional runners-up to 20-4 Itawamba. East Mississippi enters postseason play having won 12 of its last 16 division games, including a 10-game division win streak earlier this month. Most recently, the Lady Lions were swept by Northwest Mississippi, 6-2 and 9-0, this past Monday in Senatobia.
During the regular season, Copiah-Lincoln took three of four games from EMCC. The two teams split a season-opening doubleheader in Scooba with the Lady Lions claiming a 6-3 win in the first game and dropping an 11-3 decision in the nightcap. Two weeks later in Wesson, the Lady Wolves swept visiting EMCC by scores of 7-3 and 13-5.
The winner of Thursday’s EMCC-Co-Lin matchup will advance to meet the East Central-Holmes winner Friday at noon. The other semifinal-round game will take place at 2 p.m., followed by a 5 p.m. championship contest.
In last year’s MACJC State Softball Tournament hosted by Co-Lin, the EMCC Lady Lions dropped a 9-2 first-round decision to Mississippi Gulf Coast in making their first state tournament appearance since 2002.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 April 2010 )
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.jpg "Image") On the heels of the most successful season in EMCC men’s basketball history, reigning NJCAA District 15 Coach of the Year Mark White has announced the addition of eight signees for the 2010-11 hoops campaign.
Locally within EMCC’s district area, the Lions have added backcourt performers Raymond Walters from New Hope High School and Rickey McCollum of Caledonia High School. A 5-foot-11 left-hander, Walters averaged 16.5 points per game this past season for head coach Drew McBrayer’s New Hope Trojans. McCollum, a 5-foot-9 point guard, averaged 20.8 points and 5.5 assists an outing last year for Caledonia head coach Josh Scott’s Confederates.
From the nearby Meridian area, East Mississippi has inked 6-foot-7 forward Marcus Heidelberg of Quitman High School, who averaged 9.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per contest as a senior for head coach Steve Hampton’s 16-8 Quitman Panthers.
Also expected to give the EMCC Lions some added height along the front line next season are incoming forwards Millaun Brown (6-6, 210) of West Bolivar High School in Rosedale and Darris Ollie (6-5, 190) from S.V. Marshall High School in Lexington. Brown averaged 9.7 points, 7.9 boards and 1.9 blocks per game in helping lead head coach Willie Thomas’ 26-9 West Bolivar Eagles to the 2009-10 Class 2A state championship. Ollie averaged 10.4 points and 5.2 rebounds an outing this past year in helping pace head coach Milton Ray’s Marshall Tigers to a 26-2 record and No. 1 regular-season state ranking among Class 3A schools.
Additionally in the backcourt, East Mississippi has signed 6-foot-2 guard Tradarrius McPhearson of Raymond High School and 5-foot-11 playmaker Dione Milsap of Yazoo County High School. McPhearson led head coach Willie Neal’s RHS Rangers in scoring (19.5 ppg) and rebounding (8.6 rpg), while Milsap earned first-team all-district honors after averaging 14.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists per contest for head coach Michael Tardy’s Yazoo County Panthers.
Making his way to the Scooba campus all the way from the Republic of Senegal in western Africa, point guard Louis Adams is being counted on to make immediate contributions to the EMCC basketball program. The 6-foot-1 playmaker owns plenty of international experience, having averaged 11.1 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.6 steals per game while playing for Senegal’s U18 National Team at the 2008 FIBA Africa U18 Championship held in Alexandria, Egypt.
“We’re very excited about this year’s recruiting class,” said White, the reigning NJCAA District 15 Coach of the Year. “We believe they will fit in very well with our team and within our system. The thing that excites us the most is the fact that they are all great kids with tremendous family support.”
This past season, the EMCC Lions enjoyed a record-setting campaign in posting a school-best 27-7 overall record and making a first-ever appearance in the NJCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in Hutchinson, Kan. Ranked 12th in the season-ending NJCAA Division I poll, the 2009-10 East Mississippi squad also claimed a school-first MACJC North Division men’s title with a 10-2 league mark, along with earning a runner-up finish in the EMCC-hosted MACJC State Basketball Tournament.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 April 2010 )
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RAYMOND – Freshman Jackson Bryant officially closed out East Mississippi’s 2010 spring golf season by finishing in a tie for 13th place at this week’s NJCAA Region 23 Golf Championship played at Eagle Ridge Golf Club.
Bryant, from Natchez’s Trinity Episcopal Day School, jumped nine places with Monday’s 3-over-par 75 to tie Northeast Mississippi’s Daniel Singh for 13th place in the two-day event. Competing individually for head coach Dale Peay’s EMCC Lions, Bryant stood in a three-way tie for 22nd place following Sunday’s opening-round 80.
In the team competition, Mississippi Gulf Coast (296-297—593) pulled away from the field during Monday’s final round to post a 17-shot victory over runner-up Northeast Mississippi (298-312—610). Northwest Mississippi (305-319—624) finished third, followed by Copiah-Lincoln (319-312—631) and host Hinds (323-320—643).
The win marked MGCCC’s third consecutive NJCAA Region 23 team golf title and qualified the Bulldogs for next month’s (May 18-21) NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf National Championship at Palm Valley Golf Course in Phoenix, Ariz.
Individually, Mississippi Gulf Coast’s Skyler Dennis (74-72—146) claimed regional medalist honors over teammate Richie Williams (72-74—146) by winning a sudden death playoff on the first hole with a par. Dennis and Williams were joined on the NJCAA All-Region 23 Team by Northeast’s Brandon Robbins (71-76—147), Alex Rowland (73-75—148) of Itawamba, East Central’s Luke Brown (74-77—151), and Nic Ishee (74-77—151) of Gulf Coast.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 April 2010 )
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.jpg "Image") Closing out their 2010 baseball season this week on the Scooba campus, the East Mississippi Lions are set to honor 11 second-year players prior to Tuesday’s “Sophomore Day” doubleheader against visiting Northwest Mississippi.
Having recently added a pair of season-ending Wednesday home games against Bishop State Community College, out of Mobile, Ala., both doubleheaders are slated to begin at 2 p.m. at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field.
Head coach Tony Montgomery’s EMCC Lions enter the final week of the regular season with a 21-23 overall record and 8-14 divisional mark after splitting a doubleheader at Mississippi Delta this past Sunday. Postponed a day because of Saturday’s stormy weather throughout Mississippi, the Lions snapped their eight-game losing skid by claiming a 6-5 decision in nine innings during Sunday’s opening game in Moorhead. EMCC fell, 5-3, to the Trojans in the nightcap.
Among those second-year EMCC baseball players set to be recognized during Tuesday’s “Sophomore Day” activities on the Scooba campus include: Jose Acosta (Newton County HS); Derek Beach (Heidelberg Academy); Drew Esslinger (Hancock HS); Brandon Kiewel (Rapid City, SD); Corey Luke (Philadelphia HS); Alex Lummus (West Point’s Oak Hill Academy); Cody Pounders (Columbus’ New Hope HS); Tyler Richardson (West Lauderdale HS); Drew Vaughan (Columbus’ Heritage Academy); Matt Wigington (Hernando HS); and David Williams (Hernando HS).
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 April 2010 )
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