1977-1982

"It's goma take a whole lotta luck," said Wood. "We don't nave any depth. When we win a couple of games I don't know if we can play back-to-back games." Although the ECJC men are in the throes of a 10-game losing Streak head coach Herman Robinson remains optimistic. "We haven't won since Dec. 6 when we beat Gulf Coast," he .aid. "That's when we had everybody with us We were 8-3 at le semester break and I thought we had a pretty fair club ti1 11 this happened." M What transpired was three starters were academically (Continued On Page 7C) - - . [ ineligible for t h e second semester. changing the whole omplexion of the team. "We lost our point guard and without a point we're hurting." aid Robinson. "You've got to have somebody to run the club nd our other people just didn't develop. We've been struggling ver since." The one consolation the Warriors have is that they don't get I heat badly. but close only counts in a few other games. "For 21 games we've shot 98 percent from the field and 69 percent from the free throw line," said the Warrior coach. "I'll say this. usually a team that shoots 50 percent from the field will win 75 percent of the time. That's according to statistics. "Turnovers have hurt us worse than anything else." he continued. "We're averaging 28 turnovers a game. You shouldn't have more than 15 turnovers a game. If you turn it over more than that you usually get beat." Since the semester break the scoring load has fallen upon guard George Gray of Lake, who is averaging 15.1 points a game, and forward David Little of Leake Academy, who scores an average of 14.6 points and 11.7 rebounds. Other starters include center Felix Johnson of Tullulah, La:. forward Ricky Stewart of Mobile and forward Roy Myers of Morton. Johnson is averaging 9.9 points a game. while Stewart's average is 9.4 and Myers' 8.9. "I think every athlete we have has given a good effort." said Robinson "And I think we're capable of beqting anybody in it. Co-Lin just beat us 82-80 the last time we played. We've lost a lot of close games." Robinson is thankful of one thing during the slump. support. "I think our student body has backed us real well since Christmas," he said. "We've had real good participation from the students. the faculty and the local people and I appreciate it I myself .'