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Complete-game pitching performances by Trace Tingle and Chipper Moore lifted the East Mississippi Community College Lions to their first conference doubleheader sweep of the baseball season with 9-1 and 11-1 home wins over Coahoma during Wednesday’s MACCC action played at Gerald Poole Field.
The Lions of East Mississippi Community College collected a season-high 19 hits and scored multiple runs in all but one inning of the opening game to cruise to a 14-2 run-rule win and earn a home baseball doubleheader split with Hinds during Saturday’s MACCC action played at Gerald Poole Field. The visiting Eagles came back to pull out an 8-7 extra-inning victory over EMCC in the nightcap.
East Mississippi Community College freshman left-hander Trace Tingle has been named the MACCC Baseball Pitcher of the Week for his two-hit complete game in the Lions’ 4-1 nightcap win over then-No. 1 East Central a week ago in Scooba.
Trace Tingle’s two-hitter and Josh King’s bases-clearing single lifted East Mississippi Community College to a thrilling 4-1 comeback nightcap win over top-ranked East Central during Wednesday’s MACCC season-opening baseball action. The visiting Warriors hung on for a 4-3 victory over the Lions in the day’s first game of the conference doubleheader played at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field.
East Mississippi Community College closed out non-conference play with a road split during Thursday’s round-robin baseball action played at Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Jim Miles Field. The EMCC Lions shut out NAIA member Freed-Hardeman University’s JV team 4-0 before falling to the host NWCC Rangers by the same score in the nightcap.
East Mississippi Community College’s baseball team successfully capped off a demanding home week against preseason-ranked MACCC competition by sweeping 12th-ranked Jones College, 16-11 and 3-1, during Friday’s non-conference action played at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field.
In their first look at MACCC baseball competition on the year, the Lions of East Mississippi Community College limited Holmes to one hit in a 6-3 neutral-site win during Tuesday’s non-conference road action. In the nightcap of the three-team, round-robin event, preseason fifth-ranked Pearl River topped EMCC by a similar 6-2 final at PRCC’s Dub Herring Park.
East Mississippi Community College’s baseball team improved to 9-3 on the season by sweeping preseason-ranked opponents Wallace Community College-Dothan and host Chipola College on consecutive days at Jeff Johnson Field. The EMCC Lions first knocked off CC and WCCD by respective scores of 15-9 and 13-5 on Friday and then came back the following day to prevail again 10-7 and 7-3, respectively, over the same two teams.
East Mississippi Community College’s baseball team split home-and-home doubleheaders with Snead State this past week with each team bouncing back from lopsided opening-game home setbacks with come-from-behind, one-run nightcap victories. This past Saturday in Boaz, Alabama, EMCC won 15-3 in the opener before falling 4-3 in walk-off fashion to the Parsons in the second game. Two days prior in Scooba, the Lions rebounded from an identical 15-3 home defeat in the series opener to claim a 5-4 comeback win over Snead in the nightcap.
The East Mississippi Community College baseball team opened the 2025 season by winning three of four games from Marion Military Institute during a home-and-home series played this past week. The Lions swept MMI 2-0 and 5-1 during Thursday’s doubleheader played in Scooba before splitting with the Tigers two days later with a 13-3 win followed by a 10-7 loss in Marion, Alabama.
Coming off the program’s winningest season in 10 years, the 2025 East Mississippi Community College baseball team is set to open the new campaign with a pair of home-and-home series against Alabama-based Marion Military Institute and Snead State Community College.
East Mississippi Community College’s top three batting average leaders from this past season – sophomores Jon Paul Yates, Evan Radford and Ayden Alsobrooks – have all earned honorable mention recognition on the 2024 All-MACCC Baseball Team, as announced this week by the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference office.
East Mississippi Community College’s winningest baseball season in 10 years came to a close during Monday’s 5-1 series-clinching road setback against 12th-ranked Jones College in an NJCAA Region 23 best-of-three playoff series played at Community Bank Park.
The Lions of East Mississippi Community College have forced Monday’s rubber game against 13th-ranked Jones College by bouncing back from Saturday’s tough-luck, extra-inning 3-2 setback with Sunday’s 6-5 series-tying victory over the Bobcats in the NJCAA Region 23 best-of-three baseball playoff series.
Set to make their third straight baseball postseason appearance, the Lions of East Mississippi Community College will take on 13th-ranked Jones College this weekend (May 3-5) in an NJCAA Region 23 best-of-three playoff series to be played in Ellisville. Nine-inning contests are set for Friday (6 p.m.), Saturday (4 p.m.) and Sunday (2 p.m.), if necessary, at Community Bank Park.
East Mississippi Community College posted a fourth straight baseball doubleheader split in MACCC action by claiming a 10-7 opening-game home win over Copiah-Lincoln on Saturday before dropping a 3-2 decision to the visiting Wolves the following day at Gerald Poole Field. The twin bill spanned both days of the weekend after rain moved through the area late Saturday afternoon.
