Softball | 4/5/2018 12:34:00 AM
ELLISVILLE – Top-ranked Jones County Junior College continued to impress here Wednesday at Community Bank Park/Gwen Magee Field.
JCJC defeated Pearl River 9-1 in five innings in game two. The Lady Bobcats won game one, 9-4.
JCJC has now won 25 straight games. The Lady Bobcats are 33-1 overall and 20-0 in the MACJC.
Jones hosts No. 7 Itawamba in a 2 p.m. doubleheader Saturday in a huge MACJC and NJCAA showdown.
Pearl River, 18-14 overall and 11-7 in the conference entertains Holmes on Saturday.
JCJC got off to another quick start, scoring three runs in the first.
Kelsha Loftin (Mendenhall) led off by reaching on an error,
Taylor Murray (Parklane Academy walked and Emilv Robinson (Lafadrilled an RBI single to center. Calle Venable's (Clinton, Louisiana) ground out scored Murray and
Hallie Donald's (Mooreville) single scored Robinson.
The Lady Wildcats lone run came in the third when Anna Grace Cooley walked and scored on a double by Elizabeth Taggard.
Jones sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth.
McKennah Sikes (Van Buren, Arkansas) singled,
Bailey Gilbert (Sylva-Bay Academy) walked and
Gracie McCleskey (Caledonia) followed with an RBI single. Pinchhitter
Angel Guyton's (Smithville) single drove in a run to put Jones up, 5-1.
Loftin reached on a fielder's choice and Murray singled a run home. Robinson followed with a two-run double to left to give JCJC an 8-1 lead. That gave her seven RBIs on the day.
JCJC ended it in the bottom of the fifth when Sikes walked and was replaced by
Natilyn Hasty (Germantown). Hasty took second on a passed ball and scored on
Simone McKinney's (Harrison Central) single to left.
Burge, 10-0, went all five innings and got the win. She allowed one run, three hits, walked two and struck out one.
Robinson doubled and singled with Murray, Donald, Sikes, McCleskey, McKinney and Guyton adding singles.
Holley, the starter, went 3.2 innings and took the loss. She gave up eight runs (seven earned), seven hits, walked two and struck out three. Blaker tossed .1 inning, walked two, struck out one and gave up an unearned run. Rylee Swilley pitched .2 innings and allowed a hit.
Taggart doubled for the Lady Wildcats, while Wesley and Cooley added singles.
Wednesday's game
Ellisville
Community Bank Park/Gwen Magee Field
Game 2
Jones County 9, Pearl River 1
(5 innings)
Pearl River (18-14, 11-7) 100 00 – 1 3 2
Jones County (33-1, 20-0) 300 51 – 9 8 0
Olivia Holley, Dallas Blaker (4), Rylee Swilley (5) and Ramee Taylor.
Madison Burge and
Bailey Gilbert.
WP-Burge (10-0).
LP-Holley.
PRCC hitters: Elizabeth Taggard 2B; Anna Grace Cooley 1B; Destiny Wesley 1B.
JCJC hitters: Emily Robinson 2B, 1B;
Taylor Murray 1B;
Hallie Donald 1B;
McKennah Sikes 1B;
Gracie McCleskey 1B;
Simone McKinney 1B;
Angel Guyton 1B.
LOB: PRCC-3; JCJC-3.
T: 1:42.
