Tuesday’s EMCC baseball doubleheader vs. Copiah-Lincoln to be played at Northeast Lauderdale High School

SCOOBA – With East Mississippi Community College's rescheduled home baseball season opener less than a week away, the Lions have relocated Tuesday's doubleheader against Copiah-Lincoln Community College to Northeast Lauderdale High School in Meridian.  Doubleheader action between EMCC and Co-Lin is slated to begin at 3 p.m. at Northeast's baseball field.

Because of persistent wet weather conditions causing the delay in the completion of the outfield fence reconfiguration project at EMCC's Gerald Poole Field, Tuesday's baseball doubleheader with Co-Lin marks the fifth different ballpark the Lions will have played in to begin the 2013 baseball season.  Entering the week with a 5-3 record, head coach Chris Rose's EMCC Lions are now planning for Saturday's (Feb. 23) doubleheader against MACJC South Division foe Pearl River Community College to mark their long-awaited home season debut.  Saturday's doubleheader action between EMCC and PRCC at Gerald Poole Field on the Scooba campus is set for a 1 p.m. start.

Most recently, the Lions split with Jones County Junior College, winning 5-3 before being shut out 5-0, this past Thursday at Jackson's Smith-Wills Stadium.  EMCC opened the current season, Feb. 3, sweeping Bishop State Community College, 7-4 and 4-3, at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg.  Subsequent road doubleheader splits at Meridian Community College (4-3 win & 3-2 loss) and at Wallace Community College Selma (2-1 win & 3-1 loss) followed on Feb. 5 and 9, respectively.

Prior to the start of EMCC's 2013 baseball season, February's twin bills against Bishop State, Meridian, Jones County and Copiah-Lincoln were all originally scheduled to be played on the Scooba campus.