Warhawk baseball drops fourth straight game
Published 10:10 am Friday, February 15, 2013
The Jefferson Davis Community College Warhawk baseball team dropped their fourth straight game Thursday as they took an 8-7 loss to Marion Military Institute.
JDCC rallied from a 5-3 deficit after seven innings with a four-run eighth inning to claim a 7-5 lead.
From there, MMI scored three unanswered runs to get the win by one-run. MMI scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 7-all and force extra innings. After holding JDCC scoreless in the top of the 10th inning, MMI scored the winning run in the bottom of the inning to get the win.
At the plate for JDCC, Dillan Schaniel had one RBI and Mark Humphreys was 2-for-4 with one RBI. Brandon Ray went 2-for-5 and Kyle Freeman was 1-for-2 with a double and one RBI.
Andrew Tindell went 2-for-5 in the loss while Hunter Myrick was 1-for-4 with one RBI.
Alex Jones was 2-for-5 with one RBI while Reid Johnson was 1-for-2 with a double. Logan Hill was 2-for-4 with one RBI.
Tindell, Joey Scapecchi, Tyler Henry, Scott Robertson and Mitchell Peterson all pitched in the loss for the Warhawks with Robertson being the pitcher of record.
All JDCC pitchers went a combined 9 2/3 innings and allowed 11 hits, eight runs, six earned, walked two and struck out seven.
The Warhawks of JDCC are scheduled to be back in action Saturday when they will play two games in Mississippi. JDCC will take on SE Iowa at 11 a.m. in a seven-inning game in Ellisville. JDCC will play Jones at 3 p.m. in another seven-inning game.
The Warhawks will be back in action on the road Tuesday when they travel to Pensacola to play Pensacola State College in a nine-inning at 3 p.m. The Warhawks will return to Brewton on Thursday, Feb. 21, when they will host Spring Hill College. Game time is set for noon in Brewton and will be a doubleheader.