ringing in the year

If there is a target on Bo Bell’s back, the Mississippi College senior wears it well. A first-team All-America pick by d3baseball.com last season, Bell opened the 2010 campaign today by blasting a key, eighth-inning home run in the Choctaws’ 5-2 win over Huntingdon at Montgomery. Bell, from Gulfport by way of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, hit .425 with 13 homers and 73 RBIs for the Choctaws last season. If he has another big year, so will MC.