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SCOOBA - Basketball is a team sport. The East Mississippi Junior College Lady Lions found that out the hard way here Thursday night, dropping a 90--89 decision to visiting East Central, despite a 4G-point per– formance from former Meridian High stan– dout Sharon Scott. F r eshman Tanya Williamson of Philadelphia, one of five ECJC players to score in double figures, grabbed a loose ball and tossed in the winning bucket with just one second left in the game. " I reckon it's just determination," Lady Warrior coach Lucille Wood said after wat– ching her team win its second straight one– point game. "Early in the season, you want close games, but it'd be nice to have a breather sometime. "Toward the end, we finally got some help inside. Our guards started sagging in and helping out on the big girls. There's no sense in it

Leading 82-81 ECJ C reeled off six st_raig~t points, only to have S~ott respond w1th s~x straight for EMJC. W1th 45 seconds left m the game, East Central led 88-87. Dansby tool{ 'tbc ball inside and scored with 18 seconds left to give EMJC an 89-88 lead. East Central brought the ball down and missed three shots before Williamson bank- ed the wirining basket off the glass. . Mattie Burnside paced the Lady WarriOrs with 26 p9ints while Coleman added 18, Angie Wash 15, Williamson 12 and Moore 10. After ,Scott Dansby added 18 points and Winston 12 for EMJC. • In men's action East Central took a 63-52 victory to complete the sweep. The Warriors controlled the first half, leading 35-22 at intermission and held off a late Lion rally to win. Early in the second half, EMJC went on a 14-2 scoring spurt that closed the gap to 41-40 with 12 minutes left in the game. Five unanswered points by ECJC gave the Warriors a 53-44 lead and reserve Donald Clayton hit three buckets in a one minute span to ice the win. "We had two slumps there," said :E:CJC coach Steve Rives, whose teams moves to 2-0. 'We started off with a bang and then slumped. "Our·defense was great late in the game and the offense did a good job of getting us the good shots." Joe Kennamer led the Warriors with 14 points while teammates Leon Jackson had 12 and Robert Gilliland 10. Larry Anderson led EMJC with 16 points while Randy Cole, Lester Grace and Michael Gibb had 10 points each.

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