
No. 19 Bulldogs see season come to end
POPLARVILLE — No. 19 Mississippi Gulf Coast ended the season in frustrating fashion Saturday, losing for the second time in the NJCAA Region 23 Baseball Tournament.
Northeast Mississippi beat the Bulldogs 9-0 in seven innings, but the season will be looked at as a great success, with the Bulldogs winning 12 more games than the year before.
"We had some opportunities today, and we grinded," Gulf Coast coach Zach Allen said. "The balls just didn't fall our way. We hit some balls hard, and they hit some bleeders; it just wasn't our day."
Gulf Coast finished with a 38-19 record overall, and their 19-9 record in the MACCC regular season got them a fourth-place finish. The program was in the postseason for the first time in three years.
Jordan Davis (Fr, Neshoba/Neshoba Central) and Landon Holliman (So, Hattiesburg/Sumrall) had two hits each, but only one other Bulldog had a hit.
Gulf Coast left 11 runners on base in the first six innings, unable to produce the key hit to get the offense rolling.
The Bulldogs had beaten the Tigers (32-23) in the opening round of the tournament on Monday, but the teams had to wait through innumerable rain delays before they met again Saturday.
Allen's team won seven more games in conference in his first year in charge, and his staff is already pointed toward 2026.
"I can't even put into words what this team means to me," he said. "They laid the foundation for where this program needs to go. A lot of wins, and a lot of gritty wins. You talk about family a lot, coming together, and they did that. They fought all year long. And that was our big thing, was building a culture of guys that just cared about baseball, cared about each other, and that were tough. We did that this year."
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