D'Iberville advances with 9-3 win over PRC

by Carey Meitzler

The homestanding D'Iberville Warriors defeated Pearl River Central 9-3 in front of an overflow crowd of 600 plus fans at Warrior Field in Game 3

of their second round playoff series.  D'Iberville wins the series 2-1 and will advance to play Terry, who eliminated Petal in three games.

All photos by Jill Lee

Adam Herrin gets a lead at second base as D'Iberville's Clayton Seymour moves in behind him.

The game was scoreless through three innings, but each team had chances to score. 

The Warriors (25-12) left runners at second and third in the bottom of the first as PRC starter Mike Lehmann got a strikeout and a ground out

to escape the inning.

Lehmann led off the top of the second with a double to right centerfield, but courtesy runner Adam Herrin was stranded at third after the Warriors'

starter Zac Toney was able to induce a ground ball that turned into a 4-6-3 double play and then get a ground out to end the inning.

With two outs in the third inning, PRC's Matt Discon was thrown out at home plate trying to score on Josh Lee's double to right centerfield.

Jordie Meadow (8) bats with Coach Greg Lewis and Adam Herrin looking on from third base.

D'Iberville scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth.  Catcher Jarrod Cannette singled to left and was followed by consecutive bunt singles

from Clayton Seymour and Sam Saucier to load the bases with no outs.  Patrick Smith's grounder bounced over Lehmann's head to PRC's

Heath Graham who flipped to second base for a force out on Saucier, but the relay throw to first was low and got by the first baseman

allowing courtesy runner Cody Peacock (for Cannette) and Seymour to score for a 2-0 lead.  Lehmann struck out the next two batters to

close out the inning.

PRC got a leadoff single in the fifth from Kyle Pearson.  After a two infield pop fly outs, Pearson stole second base, but was left stranded when

Josh Lee's line drive to center field was caught by Ryan McQueen who made a nice running catch to end the inning.

The Warriors added five runs in the bottom of the fifth on an error, a sac bunt, a single, and consecutive triples by Cannette and Seymour. 

With three runs across in the inning, PRC was unable to catch Saucier's deep fly ball to center that allowed Seymour to score.  Patrick

Smith lined a 1-1 pitch off Lehmann's back that ricocheted into left field allowing another run to score making the score 7-0.  Lehmann was

replaced by Sean Kelly who worked out of the inning with pop fly to third base and a fly out to left field.

The Blue Devils scored a run in the top of the sixth when Heath Graham led off with a single to right field and later scored on Paul Dillard's double.

D'Iberville added two runs in the bottom of the sixth on a leadoff walk by Ryan McQueen and back to back RBI doubles by Dillon Owens and

Cannette to make it 9-1.

Down to their last at bat, PRC (20-12) got a leadoff single from Derek Penton. After a ground out moved Penton to second base, Josh Lee

singled to left moving Penton to third base. Heath Graham's grounder to third scored Penton and Lehmann's last swing as a Blue Devil

produced a double to deep left field that allowed Lee to score to make it 9-3.

Matt Discon at the plate with D'Iberville's Jarrod Cannette catching;

Coach Greg Lewis in background.