Make it five

Oxford posts big innings against Jacksonville, Piedmont, rolls to fifth consecutive Calhoun County baseball championship.

By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today

JACKSONVILLE — Rocco Maniscalco has never known what it’s like to not win the Calhoun County baseball tournament, and the senior Mississippi State signee and Major League draft prospect never will.

Third-year Oxford coach Travis Janssen has yet to experience the runner up’s dugout.

Thanks to big innings in the semifinal against Jacksonville and the championship game against Piedmont, the Yellow Jackets never had to worry Tuesday.

Oxford blew the championship game open with a six-run bottom of the sixth inning and downed Piedmont 9-0 to claim the Yellow Jackets’ fifth consecutive Calhoun County baseball championship.

EA+ subscribers can read on and find out what the county tournament means to the two teams that have won the past 11 county titles. Plus, lots of pictures.

The Yellow Jackets (7-5) won their 13th county title since 2008.