ELLISVILLE – Jones' bullpen hung five straight zeros to preserve a game one win before Mississippi Delta used a four-run first in the finale to split a pair Saturday afternoon at Community Bank Park.
The men's soccer team was honored pregame for winning conference, region and district titles with their championship rings.
Jones moved to 31-13, 16-8 in the MACCC and sits in fifth in the league standings with two doubleheaders to play. MDCC moved to 12-27, 8-14 in conference play.
The Bobcats travel to Poplarville Tuesday for a pair against rival Pearl River. First pitch has been moved up to a 1:30 start.
Jones 6, MDCC 3
Channing Lackey's three-run homer in the fourth put the Trojans ahead for the first time, but
Charlee Strickland,
Tate Duncan and
Luke Lycette held Delta scoreless the rest of the way as Jones won the opener.
Beau Bryans' RBI-single plated the game's first run in the third and
Hays Carley would come around to score on an error.
Lackey's home run to center made it 3-2 Trojans in the fourth before Carley's RBI-single to left-center tied it up at 3-3 through four.
Josh Cary's sac fly in the seventh provided the go-ahead run and
Chase Honeycutt homered a batter later to make it 6-3.
Strickland came in with two outs in the fifth and immediately got a groundout to end the Trojan threat. He tossed 2.1 scoreless for the win.
MDCC had just three hits over the final four innings and Lycette grabbed his fifth save of the year with a scoreless ninth.
MDCC 7, Jones 5
The Trojans scored four runs on five hits in their opening at-bat and never trailed to pick up a game two win and split.
Jones rallied with three runs of its own in the bottom of the first to pull within 4-3, highlighted by
Blake Summerlin's two-run double down the left field line. It was Summerlin's first at-bat of the year and just the fifth of his career.
But the Trojans pushed their lead back out to 6-3 in the second thanks to Jacob Brooks' two-out double and he added an RBI-single in the fourth to make it 7-3.
Bryans' solo homer in the fifth cut the lead to 7-5 after five.
Jones got the winning run on base in the bottom of the seventh, but a fielder's choice to third stranded all three runners.
Dalton Tanner and
Kace Matthews combined to allow two runs over six innings in relief of
Brice Deaton who was chased early.
