Monday's SIRR baseball: Tribe handles Nashville for 10th win

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Brandon George scattered seven hits and went the distance Monday afternoon, helping Du Quoin High School's baseball team stay on top the River-to-River Conference standings in the Mississippi Division.

The Tribe, still smarting for last Friday's last inning league loss to co-leader Pinckneyville, dispatched Nashville 7-3 at the Ballpark at DHS.

Du Quoin is 3-1 in the SIRR loop and 10-5 overall. Nashville's records fell to 10-5 and 2-2.

Tuesday at 4:30, the Indians invade Anna-Jonesboro.

"We really wanted this game to stay on top of the conference standings," Du Quoin coach Tim Craft said. "And we really needed someone to step up and give us a complete game on the mound. Our kids did a great job of battling. I thought our defense was the key."

George (3-1) struck out four and walked. He was staked to an early 2-0 lead when the Tribe scored in the first.

An RBI single and George's fielders choice plated the opening two tallies before Nashville knotted things with a two-run sixth.

Du Quoin wasted little time in rallying to make George a winner, plating five runs in its half of the sixth.

An error allowed the deciding run to score. Seth Baxter then laced a a bases loaded single off the right field wall to score two more and push the Tribe in front 5-2. Kegan Robbins and J.C. Davis added RBI hits for the final two runs.

Baxter and Davis had two hits each for the Indians-who had nine safeties spread among seven different batters.