Gulf Coast gets wild split at Northwest
Game 1
Game 1
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 3 |
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Northwest Mississippi Community College | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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Northwest Mississippi Community College | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Mississippi Gulf Coast rallied twice more from deficits on the road Sunday at Northwest but ended the day with a split.
The Bulldogs erased a 9-run deficit in the opener before falling 11-10 in eight innings, the scored runs in the sixth and seventh of Game 2 to win 2-1.
Gulf Coast (19-15, 9-9 MACJC) got a stellar job on the mound from Mason Sullivan, who was making his first start of the season. He gave up a run on two hits in the first inning, but nothing else in his six innings of work to improve to 2-0.
"I couldn't be more proud of him," Gulf Coast coach Rodney Batts said. "We're kind of down and thin in our pitching with some guys hurt and not on the trip with us for different reasons, and we had to have somebody who hadn't started all year. Mason was the guy and he threw really well."
Brian Lane slugged his second home run of the season to tie the game, and Justin Nussbaum drove a single through a drawn-in infield for the winning run.
"He got a good pitch to hit and drove a ground ball back up the middle for the winning run," Batts said. "It's good to see those two guys come through in the clutch."
Tyler Evans had two hits in the game, and Brandon Kennedy got his sixth save with a scoreless seventh.
Gulf Coast trailed 9-0 in the opener but got a four-run fifth to get back in the game. Lane drove in a run getting plunked with a bases-loaded, and Michael Shubert had a two-run double.
Chase Rhodes had a RBI single in the sixth, followed by a Lane single before Slater McCarty delivered the big blow. His grand slam to right field made it 10-9.
"It was back-and-forth and our guys kept plugging away at 9-0," Batts said. "You never know how that's going to end up. We started putting some good at bats together (in the fifth) and got six in the next inning and Slater's grand slam put us ahead."
Northwest, however, tied it up in the ninth on a walk and two hits. Gulf Coast got two runners on in the 10th, but nothing across and Rangers right fielder Aaron Campbell ended the game with a two-out solo homer.
