POPLARVILLE — Ten Pearl River Community College baseball standouts have earned 2013 post-season honors with center fielder Braxton Lee and catcher-designated hitter Krisjon Wilkerson leading the way with All-Region 23 and All-MACJC first- team accolades.
POPLARVILLE — Host Pearl River Community college wrapped a remarkable 2013 season with a 5-0 setback to second-seeded and top-ranked LSU-Eunice (La.) to hand the Bengals their second straight regional championship in the Region 23 Tournament here Saturday in Wildcat Stadium.
PRCC, which finished the year at 41-13 overall, opened regional play with a 12-1 win (eight innings) over top-seeded MACJC champion East Central on Thursday before falling into the loser’s bracket via a 7-3 setback to LSU-E 7-3 in the second round on Friday.
POPLARVILLE — Host Pearl River opened Region 23 Tournament play in dominating fashion here Thursday in Wildcat Stadium, demolishing top-seeded East Central 12-1 in eight innings and now faces second-seeded LSU-Eunice (La.) in Friday’s second round at 7 p.m.
POPLARVILLE — Pearl River Community College plays host to the 2013 Region XXIII Baseball Tournament Thursday through Saturday (possibly including Sunday) here in Wildcat Stadium.
Fourth-seeded PRCC (39-12), the MACJC South Division regular-season champion, earned hosting rights via its 7-3 win over Northwest Mississippi in the opening round of the MACJC State Tournament before being eliminated with a 7-6 (10 innings) loss to eventual state champ East Central and a 16-4 (six innings) setback to NWCC.
POPLARVILLE — Eighth-ranked Pearl River’s hopes of its first state championship in nearly a decade vanished here Saturday as East Central and Northwest Mississippi pulled off a pair of back-to-back victories in the MACJC State Tournament.
ECCC, which went on to claim the state title with a 4-0 win over NWCC on Sunday, pulled off a 7-6 victory over the host Wildcats before Northwest eliminated PRCC with a lopsided 16-4 (six innings) bombardment to wrap Saturday’s action.
POPLARVILLE — Right hander Severino Signa hurled a one-hit, 4-0 shutout to lead East Central Community College to the 2013 state championship over Northwest Mississippi in the MACJC State Tournament title bout here Sunday in Wildcat Stadium on the Pearl River CC campus.
ECCC, 30-19, will now enter the Region 23 Tournament next Thursday through Saturday as the No. 1 seed. That event will also be played at PRCC.
POPLARVILLE — Eighth-ranked and South Division champ Pearl River pulled off a 7-3 opening-round victory over Northwest Mississippi here Thursday in the four-team MACJC State Tournament underway in Wildcat Stadium.
East Central opened the event with a lopsided 19-1 (five innings) victory over North champ Northeast Mississippi.
PRCC improved to 39-10 overall with its win, while NWCC dropped to 29-15. ECCC is now 29-19, while NEMCC is 30-17.
POPLARVILLE — Pearl River righthanded pitcher Christian Talley has been selected as ‘Player of the Week’ by the MACJC and NJCAA for the second consecutive week.
POPLARVILLE — Ninth-ranked and South Division champ Pearl River swept Itawamba in one of four MACJC best-of-three playoff series here this past weekend, taking a hard-fought 2-1 victory in 10 innings in Saturday’s first game before rebounding with a lopsided 11-4 win on Sunday.
