EMCC Lady Lions earn first softball sweep of the year with 9-1, 10-2 home wins over Coahoma
East Mississippi Community College collected its first MACCC softball sweep of the season with 9-1 and 10-2 run-ruled home victories over Coahoma during Thursday’s conference action played at the EMCC Softball Field.
SCOOBA — East Mississippi Community College collected its first MACCC softball sweep of the season with 9-1 and 10-2 run-ruled home victories over Coahoma during Thursday's conference action played at the EMCC Softball Field.
After Kaitlynn Stroud's two-out, two-run single in the first inning of the opening game gave the home team an early 2-0 lead, the Lady Lions scored their final seven runs of the contest on home runs. Following Kamryn Moore's team-leading fourth home run of the year – a three-run shot in the second inning - Allison Brown belted a grand slam two frames later for her third homer of the season.
Coahoma's lone tally of the first game was an unearned run scored off EMCC starting pitcher Rylee Bourland in the fourth inning.
Bourland scattered five singles over five innings, with two strikeouts and no walks allowed, to record her third win of the season.
Offensively in the opener, Moore and Lily Ramsey had two hits apiece to lead EMCC's seven-hit team effort.
The visiting Lady Tigers grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the opening frame of the nightcap, but EMCC answered with three runs in the bottom half of the inning. A triple by Moore and a double by Hope Thames highlighted the three-run first inning for the Lady Lions.
After adding another run a frame later, EMCC countered Coahoma's unearned run in the third inning by batting through the order in the bottom half of the frame. Run-scoring doubles from Moore and Jenna Coker, along with a two-run single by Carrie Grace Baty, highlighted the Lady Lions' five-run third inning.
EMCC added a solo run in the fourth inning to reach the run-rule margin of eight runs.
Moore, Thames, Coker and Baty evenly accounted for the Lady Lions' eight hits with two hits apiece during the nightcap victory.
In the circle, Coker picked up her first collegiate victory by scattering four singles, while striking out three and walking three, during her five innings of work.
Coach Austin McNair's EMCC Lady Lions, 4-20 overall and 4-14 in conference play, are scheduled to play road doubleheaders this coming week against Holmes and Meridian on Tuesday and Saturday, respectively.