EMCC Lions open MACJC softball slate with shutout sweep at Mississippi Delta
The East Mississippi Community College softball team opened MACJC play with a shutout sweep (11-0, 13-0) at Mississippi Delta Community College Monday afternoon.
MOORHEAD – The East Mississippi Community College softball team opened MACJC play with a shutout sweep (11-0, 13-0) at Mississippi Delta Community College Monday afternoon.
As a team for the afternoon in Moorhead, the EMCC Lions scored in eight of the 10 innings during the pair of run-ruled contests. With a dozen hits in the opening 11-0 win, including three doubles, the visitors topped that mark with 15 hits, including a pair of home runs, in the 13-0 nightcap victory.
Defensively in the team's league-opening action, East Mississippi turned four double plays and played 10 innings of error-free softball. In the circle for the Lions, sophomores Zoie LaVergne and Chandler Ellis limited Delta batters to just two and four hits in their respective complete-game pitching wins.
In the opener, four Lion batters had multiple hits, highlighted by Marissa Landrum's first of two 3-for-4 efforts on the day. Catcher Amandalyn Abney, with a pair of doubles and three runs batted in, Emily Patrick and Mallory Vance all added a pair of hits for EMCC in the first game.
For the nightcap, four of EMCC's 15 hits went for extra bases, including home runs by Landrum and Breanna Glass. Landrum, a product of D'Iberville High School, again went 3-for-4 in driving home four runs with a two-run homer – her second of the year – in the fourth along with a first-inning RBI single and an infield out in the fifth. Glass' first collegiate homer was a two-run blast in the third to highlight her 2-for-4 outing.
Vance, a freshman out of West Lauderdale High School, capped a 5-for-8 afternoon at the plate with a double and two singles in the second game. Patrick, from Senatobia, added two more hits in the nightcap, while freshman speedster Treasure Lynch also had hits in each of her two at-bats.
Coach Kyndall White's 7-7 EMCC Lions continue their month-long, season-opening road slate by taking on preseason seventh-ranked Jones County Junior College in a 3 p.m. Friday doubleheader at Ellisville.