EMCC to take on Mississippi Delta in MACJC baseball action Wednesday night at Jackson's Smith-Wills Stadium
Due to ongoing repair work on their home baseball facility caused by last month’s tornado, the Lions of East Mississippi Community College will continue to play away from the Scooba campus for the next three weeks. To begin the school's spring break week, EMCC is scheduled to take on Mississippi Delta at Jackson's Smith-Wills Stadium in a Wednesday night doubleheader slated for a 5:30 p.m. start.
SCOOBA – Due to ongoing repair work on their home baseball facility caused by last month's tornado, the Lions of East Mississippi Community College will continue to play away from the Scooba campus for the next three weeks. To begin the school's spring break week, EMCC is scheduled to take on Mississippi Delta at Jackson's Smith-Wills Stadium in a Wednesday night doubleheader slated for a 5:30 p.m. start.
Because of this past weekend's wide-spread rain across the state, EMCC's re-scheduled Saturday twin-bill at Southwest Mississippi that was originally slated to be East Mississippi's home date will now move back to Scooba and be played on Monday, May 2, following the conclusion of the MACJC's regular-season schedule.
In another baseball schedule adjustment from the original MACJC slate, East Mississippi will now travel to Ellisville this Saturday (March 19) to meet Jones County in a 2 p.m. doubleheader rather than hosting the Bobcats this year. As a result, the Lions will play host to JCJC next season at EMCC's Gerald Poole Field.
Thus far this season without the use of their home field, the Lions have played two of their scheduled home doubleheaders (Jackson State CC and Southern Union State CC) at the University of West Alabama in Livingston. They also had to move their scheduled home doubleheader against Shelton State to Tuscaloosa. Most recently, EMCC earned a doubleheader split with Bishop State CC at Northeast Lauderdale High School in Meridian.
On the heels of the adjusted game locations for this coming week, Coach Chris Rose's 4-12 EMCC Lions were already originally scheduled to play their last three MACJC doubleheaders of March and their first April conference twin-bill all on the road. Slated to play five of their last eight MACJC doubleheaders of the regular season on the Scooba campus, the Lions' much-anticipated 2016 home opener is now targeted to be on Saturday, April 9, against East Central Community College.