POPLARVILLE – Jones was on both ends of a walk-off Wednesday night at Dub Herring Park.
The Bobcats walked off Gulf Coast, 6-5, on a hit-by-pitch and fell, 5-4, to No. 3 Pearl River on a solo home run in the bottom of the 14th inning.
Jones moved to 17-3 on the year.
Scheduled to host Illinois Central College on Friday, that doubleheader has been canceled due to incoming weather.
Jones 6, Gulf Coast 5
Beau Bryans struck out nine and allowed one run on three hits through five, but Jones needed a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to rally in the bottom of the seventh for the win.
Hays Carley's two-run double to right gave Jones a 2-0 lead in the first.
MGCCC cut the lead in half in the third on a balk.
Colton Hegwood's team-leading fourth home run of the year pushed the lead back out to 4-1 in the fourth and
Cole Manuel's sac fly made it 5-1 through five.
Connor Brooks ran into trouble in relief of Bryans in the sixth, allowing a leadoff single and walking the next two batters to load the bases with no outs. An error at second a batter later allowed two runs to score and it was 5-4 after Brooks' error.
Charlee Strickland came on to get two strikeouts and a flyout to end the threat.
A leadoff walk in the seventh put the tying run on for the Bulldogs. After a sac bunt, Keilon Parnell's RBI-single knotted the game at 5-5.
Eli Walker came on to hold MGCCC there.
Gatlin Sanders' one-out triple in the bottom of the frame put the winning run 90 feet away, and after two walks, Manuel was plunked by former Bobcat Cade Mattison to win it for Jones.
No. 3 Pearl River 5, Jones 4 (14 inn.)
Tied at 3-3 in the seventh inning with the bases loaded and no outs for Jones, an interference call cost the Bobcats a for-sure run and possibly more. Seven innings later, PRCC walked it off.
The base umpire ruled
Evan Rogers pushed the third baseman, which was easily refuted on video replay, and he was ruled out after scoring what would have been the go-ahead run. An errant throw from the catcher to third was down in the turf, and with Rogers running back to the bag, it skipped away near the Wildcat dugout. Rogers was then ruled out on interference. The next two batters struck out.
PRCC caught Jones sleeping in the bottom of the the seventh and executed a first and third double steal that gave the Wildcats back the lead, 4-3.
Rogers tied the game in the eighth on a two-out, RBI-single to center and it eventually sent the game into extras.
Scoreless from the ninth through the 13th, Alex Wade's leadoff homer to left in the 14th ended it.
Both teams finished with 10 hits apiece. The pitching staffs combined for 41 strikeouts.
Micah Daniell took the loss (1-1) in 2.0 innings of relief. Reed McCrillis (1-0) got the win in 2.0 innings.
