Baseball | 2/27/2018 10:43:00 PM

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Top-ranked Jones County broke a 2-2 tie with three runs in the eighth inning and defeated Shelton St. (Alabama) 5-2 in game two of a doubleheader here Tuesday afternoon.
The Bucs rallied for a 5-4 victory in game one.
JCJC is now 9-1 on the season and will host Illinois Central in a 3 p.m. Friday doubleheader.
Shelton St., 5-8, hosts Northwest Florida on Friday.
With the game tied 2-2, Luke Hudson (Presbyterian Christian School) led off the top of the eighth with a double and went to third on a passed ball. Trace Henry (Mooreville) reached on an error and Luther Woullard (D'Iberville) walked to load the bases.
Stephen Matthews (Tupelo) then hit a sacrifice fly to right to score pinchrunner Jacob Vick (East Central) and give Jones a 3-2 lead. Hudson Harris (West Jones) followed with an RBI single and Jake Mason (West Lauderdale) then hit an RBI double.
Luke McKenzie (Columbia Academy) gave up a leadoff single in the bottom of the eighth, but retired the next three batters to earn the save.
Payton Harris (Oak Grove) came on in the fifth inning, tossed 2.2 innings of relief and got the win. He struck out four, walked one and allowed one hit. Starter Cooper Brune (Ocean Springs) went 4.1 innings, allowed two runs (none earned), one hit, walked three and struck out two.
Hudson and Mason each doubled and singled for the Bobcats with Harris getting two singles. Brandon Hale (Pontotoc) added a single.
Smith, Chapman and Sage Smelley each singled for the Bucs.
Brett Jones, the fourth and final pitcher for the Bucs, took the loss. He went two innings and gave up three runs (two earned), three hits, walked one and struck out one.
The Bobcats led 1-0 after one and 2-0 after four. Shelton St. tied it with two runs in the fifth.