ELLISVILLE –
Mason Irby homered twice and drove in six runs to spark Jones County Junior College to a 27-5 thrashing of Baton Rouge Community College here Wednesday afternoon in game one of a doubleheader at Community Bank Park.
The game was scheduled for nine innings and was called in the seventh as the Bobcats pounded out 25 hits.
Irby, a Southern Miss signee, set the tone quickly.
After
Clint Sasser walked and
Shelton Wallace singled in the bottom of the first inning, Irby hit a three-run home run just inside the left field foul pole.
The Bobcats then sent 13 batters to the plate and scored eight runs in the second inning to go up 11-0.
Dalton Skelton started the inning with a home run over the right field wall.
Jonathan Parker had a run-scoring double, while
Shelton Wallace and
Fred Franklin had run-scoring singles in the inning.
JCJC then sent 15 batters to the plate and scored nine runs in the fourth inning to take a 20-0 lead.
Parker had a two-run single in the inning with Franklin, Sasser, Wallace, Irby and
John Alan Wall adding RBI singles.
After McKay Mouton hit a solo home run for the Bears in the fifth, the Bobcats scored seven runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 27-1 lead.
Irby led off the inning with his second home run of the game and
Erick Hoard would hit a two-run single. Wall would have a two-run double and
Mason Strickland and
Tanner Huddleston had RBI singles.
The Bears would score four in the sixth.
Will Brand, 2-0, posted the win. He went four innings, allowed no runs, four hits, walked none and struck out three.
Zach Taylor went the final three innings, allowed five runs (two earned), four hits, walked none and struck out one.
Irby also had a single to go with his two home runs. Hoard doubled, singled three times and had two RBIs. Parker doubled, singled twice and drove in three runs. Franklin singled three times and drove in three runs, while Skelton homered and singled twice.
Wallace singled twice and had two RBIs, while
Tristan Labove had two doubles. Sasser,
Mason Strickland, Wall,
Chris Richardson and
Josh Keel had singles. Sasser also walked three times, was hit by a pitch and reached base in all five of his plate appearances.
Jake Murry – the first of four BRCC pitchers – started and took the loss.
Nick Ourso doubled and singled for the Bears, while Mouton homered. Devin Bailey tripled, while John Mauldin, Layton Laird, Joseph Domingue and Blake Buller adding singles.
Wednesday's gameEllisvilleCommunity Bank ParkGame 1Jones County 27, Baton Rouge CC (LA) 5Baton Rouge (6-9) 000 014 0 – 5 8 5Jones County (5-0) 380 970 x – 27 25 3 Jake Murry, Brennan Maggio (2), Luis Beltran (3), Caleb Prejean (4) and Blake Buller.
Will Brand, Zack Taylor (5) and
Jonathan Parker.
WP-Brand (2-0).
LP-Murry (1-1).
BRCC hitters: Nick Ourso 2B, 1B; McKay Mouton HR; Devin Bailey 3B; John Mauldin 1B; Layton Laird 1B; Joseph Domingue 1B; Blake Buller 1B.
JCJC hitters: Erick Hoard 2B, 3 1B;
Mason Irby 2 HR, 1B;
Jonathan Parker 2B, 2 1B;
Dalton Skelton HR, 2 1B;
Fred Franklin 3 1B;
Tristan Labove 2 2B;
Shelton Wallace 2 1B;
Clint Sasser 1B;
Mason Strickland 1B;
John Alan Wall 1B;
Chris Richardson 1B;
Josh Keel 1B.
LOB: BRCC-4; JCJC-8.
T-2:25.
