Softball Splits with Jeff Davis

The Meridian Community College softball team earned split a doubleheader at home Tuesday to keep their record at .500.

After losing the first game of the doubleheader 4-0 to Jeff Davis the Lady Eagles bounced back in the nightcap to win 7-6. MCC evened their record at 2-2 on the season.

Although the score doesn’t indicate it, the first game was a pitcher duel. There were 7 hits in the contest (Jeff Davis 4 and Meridian 3). The only problem was Jeff Davis collected 2 hits in the 2nd and 5th innings and lady Eagles committed 5 errors during those frame to allow Jeff Davis to score 4 runs, which was more than enough to secure the victory. Alyssa Daniels (0-1) was the loser in the contest. Stormy Lewis (2-3, double) and Iyeshia Thomas (1-3) had MCC 3 hits in the contest.

In game 2 the Lady Eagles bats did not warm up to well, collecting only 6 hits, but MCC did take advantage of 7 walks with some timely hitting they scored 7 runs to win the nightcap. MCC opened the bottom of the first with consecutive walks by Whitnee Jenkins and Brooke Dew. Iyeshia Thomas scored both runs on a double to right center. Taquita Collier, running for Thomas, later scored on a fielder choice of the bat of Erin Adcock. Jeff Davis pushed across a run in the top of the 3rd to make the score 3-1. Thomas stretched the lead to 5-1 in the 5th with a 2 run homer, that scored Jenkins who had singled earlier. The Lady Eagles could not close out the game as Jeff Davis scored 5 runs in the top of the 7th to go ahead 6-5. However MCC staged some heroics of their own in the bottom of the inning to win the game 7-6. Jenkins open with a walk; reached 2nd on a sacrifice by, and later took 3rd on a wild pitch. Marlena Clayton reached on a walk before Thomas delivered a game tying RBI on a fielder choice hit in the hole at shortstop. Stormy Lewis loaded the bases with a 2 out walk. Erin Adcock then stepped up to deliver the game winning RBI with a single to right to score Clayton from 3rd. Adcock picked up the win on the mound to even her record at 1-1.

“We are young and we are trying to develop some confidence with them so hopefully this will help.,” said MCC head coach Robert Eakins. “It was tough lost in the first game, but to bounce back in the second game to win it with some timely hit hopefully will help them stay focused. We though about changing pitcher but we wanted them to gut it out and they did. This will give them some confidence as we go through a 6 tough game stretch.”

MCC (2-2) returns to action today at 1 p.m. when they host Pensacola Community College at Tommy McDonald Field.