ELLISVILLE – Jones County Junior College continues to excel early in the baseball season.
The Bobcats blitzed Baton Rouge Community College (Louisiana) 14-0 in five innings in game two of a doubleheader here Wednesday evening at Community Bank Park. The second game was scheduled for seven innings and was called in the fifth.
The Bobcats are now 6-0 and have outscored their opponents by a whopping 89-17 margin.
Starting pitcher Ben Stiglets shut the Bears down.
Stiglets went the first four innings, allowed no runs, one hit, walked one and struck out four as he improved to 2-0. Dylan Dover tossed the final inning, striking out one and walking one.
Once again, the Bobcats got off to a quick start by taking a 3-0 lead in the first inning.
Clint Sasser led off with a walk and scored on Mason Irby's double to right. Tanner Huddleston and Erick Hoard then draw walks to load the bases. An error allowed Irby and Huddleston to score.
JCJC then sent 11 batters to the plate, scored seven runs and took a 10-0 lead in the second. Hoard had a two-run single, while Landon Nettles and Fred Franklin had RBI doubles.
JCJC ended the scoring in the fourth. Hoard had an RBI single and Nettles drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the inning.
Irby doubled and singled twice, while Hoard singled twice and drove in three runs. Nettles doubled and drove in a pair of runs and Franklin had a double. Shelton Wallace and Dalton Skelton added singles.
John Mauldin singled for BRCC's only hit.
Zachary Ragsdale – the first of five Bear pitches – pitched one inning, allowed three runs (one earned) and took the loss. He allowed one hit and walked three.
JCJC returns home for a 2 p.m. doubleheader vs. Mineral Area College (Missouri) on Saturday. The games will air on www.jcjc.tv.
Baton Rouge, 6-10, travels to the East Central campus in Decatur on Saturday to face Wallace State-Hanceville (Alabama) and Faulkner State (Alabama) in two neutral site games.
 
Wednesday's game
Ellisville
Community Bank Park
Game 2
Jones County 14, Baton Rouge CC (LA) 0
Baton Rouge (6-10)            000 00 – 0 1 3
Jones County (6-0)             374 0x – 14 9 0
Zachary Ragsdale, Justin Donaldson (2), Jesse Nigro (3), Jake Cooper (3), Morgan McGuire-Beauman and Blake Buller. Ben Stiglets, Dylan Dover (5) and Landon Nettles. WP-Stiglets (2-0). LP-Ragsdale. BRCC hitters: John Mauldin. JCJC hitters:
Mason Irby 2 2B, 1B; Erick Hoard 2 1B; Landon Nettles 2B; Fred Franklin 2B; Dustin Skelton 1B; Shelton Wallace 1B. LOB: BRCC-1; JCJC-7. T-1:46.