Baseball | 2/17/2018 6:31:00 PM
Box Score ELLISVILLE – No. 1 ranked Jones County County Junior College scored eight runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, capped by a 3-run home run by
Luke Hudson (Presbyterian Christian School), and defeated Mineral Area College (Misouri) 12-1 in game one of a doubleheader here Saturday afternoon at Community Bank Park.
Will Freeman (Semmes, Alabama) went all five innings and got the win, improving to 2-0. He allowed only two hits, walked one and struck out six.
Jones took a 1-0 lead in the first when
Robbie Woody (Madison Central reached on a two-base throwing error. He was sacrificed to third by
Trace Henry (Mooreville), never stopped running on the play and beat the throw home.
After Trent Pobst tied it with a home run in the second, JCJC went up 3-1 in the third. Woody walked, stole second, went to third on an error and scored on a single by Henry. After Henry stole second and third,
Stephen Matthews (Tupelo) singled him home.
The Bobcats made it 4-1 in the fourth when
Miguel Morgan (South Jones) reached on an infield single and later scored on a passed ball.
In the fifth,
Cooper Brune (Ocean Springs) had an RBI single and Woody had a two-run double. Hudson blasted his second home run of the year over the rightfield wall, scoring Henry, who had been hit by a pitch, and
Luther Woullard (D'Iberville), who had singled.
Hudson homered and singled twice for Jones. Woody had a double with Henry, Woullard, Matthews,
Luke McKenzie (Columbia Academy), Morgan and Brune adding singles.
Pobst homered and Caleb Feuerstake singled for Mineral Area.
Brendan Anderson went the first 3.1 innings for the Cardinals and was charged with the loss. Kollin Stone pitched 1.1 innings and Brent Busenbark pitched to two batters.
Saturday's game
Ellisville
Community Bank Park
Game 1
Jones County 12, Mineral Area College (Missouri) 1
(5 innings)
Mineral Area (0-6) 010 00 – 1 2 4
Jones County (5-0) 102 18 – 12 10 1
Brendan Anderson, Kollin Stone (4), Brandt Busenbark (5) and Andrew Hayden.
Will Freeman and
Steven Sasser,
Hudson Harris (5).
WP-Freeman (2-0).
LP-Anderson.
MAC hitters: Trent Pobst HR; Caleb Feuerstake 1B.
JCJC hitters: Luke Hudson HR, 2 1B;
Robbie Woody 2B;
Trace Henry 1B;
Luther Woullard 1B
Stephen Matthews 1B;
Luke McKenzie 1B;
Miguel Morgan 1B;
Cooper Brune 1B.
LOB: MAC-2; JCJC-5.
T-1:40.
