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Warriors Win Region VH Championship To Play In Kansa:

TEAM TOPS TIGERS IN THIRD DEFEAT

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By HENRY BRYAN The East Central Warriors de- feated the highly respected Boone– ville "Five" by a ' score of 66 to 64 March 2 to qualify for parti- 1 ' cipation in the National Junior i College tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. i In this tournament, the War– riors will represent Region VII, which includes Mississippi, Ten– nessee, Alabama and Arkansas. It was "Pee Wee" Crocker' ;I shot, with 3 ~p~onds left to play, that sent tho V/a~~;nl'S . >.~ Pnfnh- inSOn. Wayn; Tuli~·"·-,-~d 0 r.~.,.~\~;;_ ,. riors in scoring with "'~ :::-oini.:s. Griffin hit the hoop fo,,rt. 22, al– though he was more ef'fe ctive on defense, especially on rebounds. Robinson got 8 points, Thomas and Hurst hit for 4 each and last.· but wow!! "Pee Wee" Crocker hi.t for the game winning two points. In the preliminaries of the tournament, Holmes defeated Scooba by a score of 72 to 70. Northeast defeated Hinds 77 .to 58 and Perkinston defeated Itawamba 62 to 50. " I On March 1, in the second round of preliminaries, East Central de– feated Perkinston by a score of 83 to 61 and Booneville defeated 1 Ho!mes 83-75. · i.· < :: 1

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