Baseball gets off to 3-1 start in the South

3/19/2014 10:51:00 AM

Randy Bell (2) threw a one-hitter against Gulf Coast on Tuesday

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The Hinds Community College baseball team has moved into the heart of the 2014 season as South division play has gotten underway.

The Eagles split a road doubleheader at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College on Tuesday, winning game one, 11-0, before falling in the nightcap, 2-1. The split puts Hinds at 3-1 in the South and 13-10 overall.

Randy Bell (Woodville) threw a one-hit shutout in game one, a contest that was shortened to six innings due to the 10-run mercy rule. The freshman righty improved to 4-2 on the season after striking out nine hitters and allowing only one hit and one walk.

Bell received offensive support from Matt Jones (Madison) and Chase Lunceford (Clinton), who each hit two-run home runs to lead the nine-hit attack. Toler Robinson (Pearl) also had two doubles in the opener.

Caleb Upton (Natchez) drove in the Eagles lone run in game two, one in which the Eagles outhit Gulf Coast, 6-2, but were unable to find the holes despite numerous hard-hit balls.

Michael Jolly (Mobile, Ala.) was the tough-luck loser on the mound in the second game, allowing only two hits and two runs in 4.1 innings pitched and fell to 0-1 on the year.

Hinds swept a non-conference home doubleheader against ninth-ranked Southeastern (Iowa) Community College on Saturday, winning 9-8 in the opener before taking the nightcap, 3-1.

Lunceford had a day to remember on Saturday, finishing 6-7 with two home runs, three doubles, one single, four runs scored and five RBI in the two-game sweep.

He was 3-4 in game one with two doubles and a single before going a perfect 3-3 in the second contest and accounted for all three of the Eagles runs with his solo home run in the first inning and tiebreaking two-run home run in the fifth inning.

Quade Smith (Brandon) helped lead the 12-hit attack in game one by finishing with three hits.

Derek Martin (Flora) got the win in relief on the hill to move his record to 2-2 on the year.

Daniel Briner (Madison) earned the victory in the second contest versus Southeastern by throwing two shutout innings in relief of Chase Cater (Rayville, La.), who started and went four innings, allowing only one run.

With the win, Briner moved to 1-1. Austin Sanders (Madison) threw a scoreless seventh inning to pick up his first save of the season.

Robinson finished the nightcap with a base hit to help the Eagles offense.

Hinds opened South division play at home last Wednesday against Southwest Community College and defeated the Bears, 9-6, in game one and picked up a game two victory by the score of 7-3.

Bell threw four innings and allowed only three runs to get the victory on the mound in what at the time was his third victory of the season.

Upton led the Eagles offense with a three-hit performance and two RBI. Jones, Brian Mills (Mendenhall), Luke Reynolds (Forest) and Smith each had two hits in the Southwest opener, as Hinds pounded out 13 hits in the victory.

Casey Sutton (Monroe, La.) threw his second complete game of the season in game two versus Southwest and improved to 4-1 on the year. The freshman righty finished with nine strikeouts and allowed three runs to earn the victory.

Marshall Boggs (Cleveland) and Reynolds each had two hits in the 7-3 win, with Boggs driving in two runs and scoring a run.

The Eagles return to play on South division play on Saturday, hosting Co-Lin Community College in a 2 p.m. doubleheader at Joe G. Moss Field in Raymond.

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