Baseball | 4/29/2018 7:08:00 AM
CLARKSDALE –
Trace Henry (Mooreville) and
Robbie Woody (Madison Central) each had four singles and three RBIs and starting pitcher
Cooper Brune (Ocean Springs) struck out 11 as No. 3 Jones County beat Coahoma, 13-1 in seven innings in game one of a doubleheader here Saturday afternoon at the Eddie C. Smith Sports Complex.
It was JCJC's 15th straight victory.
Henry and Woody – the one-two hitters in the lineup – were not the only ones to have big games for the Bobcats.
Three-hole hitter
Luther Woullard (D'Iberville) had a double and two singles.
Stephen Matthews (Tupelo) had three singles and scored three runs.
R.J. Brown (Columbus, Georgia) tripled, singled, scored three runs and drove in two. Mason added a single.
Brune went six innings, allowed one run, six hits, walked two and improved to 11-0 on the season. Brune leads the MACJC and is tied for first in the nation in wins.
D.J. Alexander (Gretna, Louisiana) pitched the final inning, allowed no runs, no hits and struck out two.
Kyler Johnson had two singles for Coahoma. Marquelius Edgeston, Zac Gilder, Alexis Rodriguez and Deonteau Rieves added singles.
Austin Pace was the starter and loser. He went 6.2 innings, allowed 13 runs (10 earned), 17 hits, walked three and struck out five. Justin Fisher got the final out.
JCJC led 1-0 after one inning, 5-0 after two, 8-0 after three, 8-1 after five and scored five runs in the seventh.
The Bobcats are now 34-7 overall and continued to lead the MACJC at 19-4.
Coahoma falls to 22-19 overall and 10-13 in the MACJC.