MOORHEAD – No. 6 Jones College swept a pair of games at a gusty Lady Trojan Field Saturday afternoon, defeating Mississippi Delta 15-6 and 15-7 — both in six innings.
Jones improved to 27-6, 6-2 MACCC and will close out a six-game road swing on Tuesday at Southwest.
The Bobcats combined for 30 runs on 32 hits, with 12 different players grabbing at least one.
Jones 15, Delta 6 (6 inn.)
The Lady Trojans jumped out to a 4-1 lead after one but Jones would wake up the bats to take a run-rule victory in the opener.
Mary Kimble Price’s (Kosciusko) solo homer in the third and Morgan Taylor’s (Petal) sac fly tied it at 4-4.
Madison Sawyer’s (Saralan, Ala.) two-run double put Jones back in front, 6-4, in the fourth.
A six-run fifth and three-run sixth closed out the run-rule.
Mabry Eason (Lafayette) hit a two-run homer and had a two-run double and Farrah James (Ocean Springs), Annaston Tate (Wayne County) and Logan Mansur (Walker, La.) all added RBI-singles.
Abigail Lindsey (Decatur, Ala., 4-0)relieved Morgan Landry (New Roads, La.) after the first and scattered two earned runs, five strikeouts and a walk to earn the win in the circle.
Jones 15, Delta 7 (6 inn.)
Eason hit her team-leading 12th home run and James homered twice to set the tone for a two-game sweep.
Jones led 4-0 after one.
A 4-2 game in the third, Mansur tripled to score a pair and Sawyer hit a solo homer in the fourth to extend the lead to 7-2. James hit her second homer in the fifth.
MDCC clawed back within 8-5 in the bottom of the fifth after a Zyah Gunter two-run single and Shamya Williams RBI-single.
Makenzie Houston’s (South Panola) RBI-single in the sixth opened up a seven-run frame. James doubled, Anna Grace Whitehead (Kosciusko) had an RBI-single, Marlee Dampeer (Puckett) an RBI-single, Chloe Jenkins (Brandon) RBI-walk and Eason two-run single.
Gunter hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth to make the final 15-7.
Whitehead (2-0) got the win in a complete-game outing, scattering eight hits, three earned runs, six strikeouts and five walks.
