seeing clearly now

The dust has settled following the big weekend in Mississippi baseball. And the Mississippi schools came out good, save for Millsaps, which may get another chance in an NCAA Division III regional. Ole Miss ace Scott Bittle lived up to his billing, beating Georgia on Sunday in the rubber game of a compelling SEC series in Oxford. Bittle likely moved a little closer to winning a second straight Ferriss Trophy. In Hattiesburg, Belhaven beat William Carey two of three, but the Crusaders’ one win was enough to secure the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular season title. Carey edged out LSU-Shreveport by a half game. The GCAC Tournament, which will determine the league’s automatic NAIA bid, is this weekend at Carey’s Wheeler Field. Delta State took two of three at Southern Arkansas, the No. 1 team in Division II, and won the Gulf South Conference West championship. The Statesmen will be the top seed heading into this weekend’s GSC Tournament in Millington, Tenn. Mississippi College, playing its best ball at the right time, swept past Mary Hardin-Baylor in a best-of-3 playoff series and will host the American Southwest Conference Tournament this weekend at Frierson Field in Clinton. And the field is set for the MACJC best-of-3 playoffs this weekend: Mississippi Gulf Coast CC won the South title and will host Holmes. Jones County JC played its way in and will visit Northeast. North champ Itawamba, the No. 5 team in the NJCAA Division II, hosts Pearl River; and Hinds will host Northwest. Meridian CC, meanwhile, had the weekend off but will start Division I Region 23 play this weekend at Baton Rouge.