NATCHEZ &045; It’s almost scary to think of what would happen when Timmy Foster really gets a solid lick on a fastball about chest high.

There’s a good chance wherever it lands &045; hopefully in this time zone &045; the ball won’t be in its original state and could resemble something pulled out of a blender. The slugging junior for Adams Christian belted two in a 10-8 win over Parklane on tough pitches to hit as part of a four-homer day in the Rebels’ doubleheader sweep over the Pioneers and Columbia.

With the way he was hitting the ball Saturday in that compact park with the wind blowing out a bit &045; man, oh, man.

&uot;One he fisted,&uot; Parklane head coach Ken Jackson said. &uot;I told the kid that’s not your fault. You play in a short park, but you know it’s here. You’ve got to get the ball down a little bit. The second one he kind of poked at it. But that’s no excuse &045; you’ve got to know the park you’re in. You’ve got to know the field you’re playing in.&uot;

Both teams walked away having a better sense of the dimensions at the Rebel Diamond as they combined for five home runs in the high-scoring affair. But Foster did the most damage in Game 2 after providing the heroics in Game 1 with a walk-off homer with two outs in the last of the seventh to give the Rebels a 9-8 win over Columbia.

Foster’s two-run blast was part of a six-run third where the Rebels took a 7-3 lead before they held on despite four Parklane runs in the seventh.

&uot;If you get behind Timmy Foster, you’re asking for that sort of thing,&uot; Adams head coach Gill Morris said. &uot;He’s got as good of an extension on the ball as any kid I’ve ever coached. He’s patient, and when you get behind 2-0 or 3-1, he really hits the ball hard. He has those long arms, and he’ll get them extended over the plate.

&uot;I didn’t think one was getting out of here. The wind might have helped it some. The north wind blows out of here, and the ball is going to go.&uot;

Foster’s shot in the third inning looked like a pop up just to the left of center that kept on carrying until it got over the fence. In the first he slapped one off the handle of the bat over the fence in left for a solo homer.

But the ball was definitely jumping out of the park &045; David Trisler sent one out on the very next pitch following Foster’s first homer, and the Pioneers had homers from Michael Watts and Eric Boyd.

&uot;He got pitches to hit, and when he got them he made them pay,&uot; Trisler said. &uot;He got one in on the hands, but he had enough power to hit it out. That one in the first game &045; that was the one there was no doubt about. It got out in a hurry. (My homer) was a curveball, and I got my bat down under it and hit it out.

&uot;We’re starting to see the ball as a team and put it all together. When we’re getting pitches to hit, we’re putting the ball in play.&uot;

The Pioneers did their best impression of the Adams Christian bats in the seventh when they put up four runs with two outs to make things interesting. Russ Brown singled in Jeremy Wallace for the first run, and Boyd walloped a three-run homer

off reliever Clay Floyd to left to trim the score to 10-8.

Then Alex Langhart was hit by a pitch and went to third on a Watts double. But Floyd got Bubba Boggs to fly out to Trisler in left to end the game.

&uot;We didn’t do the little things well enough to beat a good baseball team, and Adams Christian is good,&uot; Jackson said. &uot;We didn’t execute well enough during the course of the ball game. They did, and they won. Both of us were way down in pitching. This was our fifth game this week, and it was their fourth. We figured it would be like that &045; kind of a slugfest &045; but we still have to execute.&uot;

The Rebels put the runs across early in the game to give freshman starter Matt Barnes room to work in his first varsity start. Foster homered in the first, and then Cole Bradford singled in Dustin Case and Jamie Morris to finish the damage in the third as the Rebels sent 11 men to the plate against Boyd.

They tacked on three in the fifth &045; which turned out to be the game winners &045; as Ray Simpson got Floyd to score on a sacrifice bunt, Brian Smith scored on an error and Trisler doubled home Bradford.

&uot;We left a lot of runners on base today, but a W is a W,&uot; Morris said. &uot;That’s what counts.

The first game we left a lot more on than I wanted to. We looked ugly at times, but we stayed with it.&uot;