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The week's key North Division contest takes place tonight in Moorhead where di- vision-leading Mississippi Delta hosts high-powered East Mississippi . Mississippi Delta is 4-0 in the division and 5-2 overall while East Mississippi is 2-1-1 in the division and 4-2-1 overall. 'A win by Delta would wrap up the division title while a loss could keep the hopes of Xtawamba, Northwest and East Mississip pi alive. Saturday, Northwest and Itawamba collide a t Fulton. Itawamba is 3-1 in the division and 3-4 overall while Northwest is 2-1-1 in the North and 3-3-1 overall. Coahoma and Holmes match 1-3 division records in a 1:30 p.m. match a t Goodman. Coahoma is 2-5 overall and Holmes is 1-6 after having scored just four touchdowns all season. Other games in the South Division find Gulf Coast (3-1, 6-1) a t Hinds (2-2, 3-4) for the Eagles' homecoming a t 2 p.m., and Pearl River (1-3, 4-3) a t Copiah-Lincoln (1-3, 3-4).

pushed him ahead of Robert Farmer of Gulf Coast and Winfred Lyons of East Mississippi. Pouncey also has a t his disposal fresh- man Greg Hawkins, who with 23 points is the state's second most prolific kicker be- hind Mark Davis of Gulf Coast. The lone division blemish on East Cen- tral's slate was a 26-16 second-week loss to Gulf Coast. That and a season-opening 17-0 loss to East Mississippi could play havoc with any division hopes, even with a win over Jones. "The way it is set up is division record first and then overall record," said Poun- cey. "We've still got a long way to go and we've got to get by Southwest first." -- Jones, the state's only unbeaten a t 7-0, takes ,on the state's lone winless club, Northeast, in the week's only non-division contest. Although 0-7, last week's 26-0 loss to Itawamba was the first time all season that Northeast had lost by more than seven points.

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By GARY YUNT Cladon-Ledger Sports Writer

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Hey, don't look now, but Jones has not got the South Division sewed up in the state junior college ranks. / Granted that 7-6 win last Saturday a t Gulf Coast did a lot to make the Bobcats' chance of repeating better. -Beb, there is one last challenger on the horizon. East Central. That's right, East Central. The Decatur school has won its last five games and stands 3-1 in the division with a Saturday date coming up in Summit against South- west. East Central's final divisional game is Nov. 4 a t home against Jones. "But first there is Southwest," warns East Central Coach Ken Pouncey. "They've got a good ball club there, bet- ter than their record (2-5 overall and 0-4 in the division) indicates. We've still got a long way to go and we are far from any- thing spectacular." llpectacular or not, East Central is now and riding i t s loncesl: winning streak

in three seasons. The club has scored 131 points which is tops in the state and fea- tures the state's top scorer in sophomore split end Alexander Ealy. "We've been pretty fortunate in our last five games, in fact we've had a 10th luck," said Pouncey, whose club was 4-6 last year but only 1-5 in the South. "We've got nine kids back who played last year and we've got some freshmen who are playing real well. Our kids have a real good attitude right now." Quarterbacking the potent East Central attack is Mark Killens. At his disposal in Pouncey's arsenal a r e Theodore Ealy and Willie Hannah a t halfback, Wesley Collins a t fullback and, of course, Alex Ealy, who was a tight end last year. Alex Ealy caught a pivotal two-point conversion in East Central's 16-13 win last Saturday a t Pearl River and that gave him 38 points for the year and