8/12/08

SOFTBALL ANNOUNCES FALL PLAY DAY SCHEDULE
Six Teams Set For Sept. 13 Event

BOONEVILLE, Miss.--Northeast Mississippi Community College softball coach Jody Long has announced the line-up for the Lady Tigers Fall Play Day at Booneville City Park.

The all-day event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 13 starting at 10 a.m. on fields one and two at the city park.

Joining host Northeast is a quartet of Mississippi-based and one Alabama-homed community colleges.

East Central and Mississippi Gulf Coast join North Division opponents Itawamba and Northwest while Northwest Shoals Community College from Muscle Shoals, Ala., rounds out the field.

All games will consist of seven innings or an hour and a half time limit – which ever is reached first with no new innings starting after the time limit has expired. Mercy rules are in place for 12 runs after three frames or eight after five innings.

If a game should end in a tie after regulation, the international tiebreaker will be used for the first extra inning and if a tie persists runners will be placed at second and third with no outs to try to break the even finish.

After two extra innings, teams that remain tied will have the game recorded as a tie.
Admission will be $3 for persons school age and above.

During the 2008 campaign, the Lady Tigers finished 34-20 overall and 14-3 in the North Division capturing their seventh division title in the last eight years and registered a fourth place finish at the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament.

 
Schedule of Events
Field One
10 a.m. – Northwest vs. Gulf Coast
Noon – Northeast vs. Northwest Shoals
2 p.m. – Northwest vs. Northwest Shoals
4 p.m. – Northeast vs. Gulf Coast
6 p.m. – Northeast vs. East Central

Field Two
10 a.m. – Itawamba vs. Northwest Shoals
Noon – East Central vs. Itawamba
2 p.m. – Gulf Coast vs. Itawamba
4 p.m. – Northwest vs. East Central
6 p.m. – Gulf Coast vs. Northwest Shoals

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