NCOE baseball comes back to beat Gallatin Co.

The Greater Egyptian Conference kicked things off Tuesday with a pair of local meetings. NCOE rallied late to beat Gallatin County, while Carrier Mills-Stonefort defeated Galatia.<br />Norris City-Omaha-Enfield 4, Gallatin County 2<br />Gallatin County led 2-1 going into the top of the seventh inning, but the Cardinals scored three runs to win 4-2.<br />Gallatin's Audie Goebel went 5 innings, allowing one earned run on four hits. Robbie Prince went the last two, giving up two earned runs.<br />At the plate, Prince went 2-for-3, while Seth Ramsey, Hunter Walters, Garrett Rushing and Goebel all had one hit. Walters finished with an RBI and Rushing scored a run.

<strong>Carrier Mills-Stonefort 2, Galatia 1</strong><br />Wildcat senior right hander Justice Hill had 12 strikeouts and allowed just three hits as Carrier Mills-Stonefort went to 1-0 in the Greater Egyptian Conference with a 2-1 win over Galatia Tuesday.<br />Three errors in the bottom of the sixth spelled trouble for the Bearcats as CMSF (1-1) picked up their two runs. Dylan Schwartz scored on an E-6 and Brody Walker scored on Blake Bynum's single.<br />Cooper Patterson went six innings, allowing three hits, one walk and striking out 11.<br />At the plate, Bronson Stanley went 2-for-3 with a single and a double, which scored Austin Stevens in the fourth inning for the 1-0 lead. Stevens was 1-for-3 with a single and a runs scored.

<strong>Massac County 5, Carrier Mills-Stonefort 2</strong><br />Massac County scored four runs in the fifth and one run in the sixth to knock off the Wildcats in the season opener. CMFS scored single runs in the sixth and seventh as the Wildcats had four hits, one each from Dylan Schwartz and Will Gibbs and RBI singles from Colton Betz and Justice Hill. <br />Billy Lewis lasted six innings and took the loss.