Indians upsets No. 1 Jones County to earn split in Fulton
Adam Gore/LetsGoICC.com
FULTON, MS – The ICC baseball team have been looking for a spark to turn their season around and they may have found it after a 4-1 Game 2 victory over the nation's No. 1 team Jones County Junior College on Saturday.
The Indians (15-14, 5-7 MACJC North) jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Tanner Poole (Amory) scored on a throwing error, Drew Wheeler (Mooreville) came across on a single by Ethan Gill (Pontotoc) and a sac fly by Cameron Coker (Germantown, TN) scored Gill.
ICC picked up an insurance run when Poole doubled to left and Anthony Mallard (Verona) beat the throw home to put the Indians up 4-0 in the fourth.
Trailing 4-1, the top-ranked Bobcats (29-4, 9-3 MACJC South) saw relief pitcher Ben Aldridge (Tupelo) strand runners in scoring position in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to pick up the save after striking out six batters in four innings of work.
Freshman T.J. Watson (Dallas, GA) scattered two hits in three innings of scoreless baseball to pick up the win.
Indians come up short in Game 1, 5-4
The Indians left runners on second and third in the bottom of the seventh to drop the first game of the day 5-4 to the Bobcats.
Poole went 2-for-3 with 4 RBIs, a double and a stolen while Luke Gibbs (Oxford) went 2-for-2 with a run in the loss.
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