1982-1986

/ I ~ o - ~ i n pounds ECJC [//YL I 1 for two big victories

1 By Will Price I The Meridian Star

vVe played a real good ball club which has not lost a game to a team in the state and was proud of the way the boys hustled and played hard. We were in foul *trouble early and you can't give that many breaks to a good team and come out on top." In the girls game, it was real inthesting in the early going a s the Lady Warriors got a basket by Karen Miller and a three- point play from Reginia Amos to jump out front 5-0. East Central went up 7-3 but CoLin tied it a t the 16:45 mark of the first half and it was tied three more times during the first period of play. After being tied 9-9, the Lady Warriors got two free throws from Tracy Donald, a three-point play from Anita Union and Sethia Townsend added a basket for a

DECATUR - Copiah Lincoln ~u n i o r College invadeded the East Central Junior CollegeWar- riors gym and made off with a pair of conference basketball wins here Monday night. The CoLin Wolves, 14-1overall and 5-0 in conference action outlasted ECJC, 6-9 and 2-4, by the score of 91-77 while the Lady Wolves increased its record to 13-2 and 5-0 with a convincing 82-65 victory over the 8-7 and 1-5 Lady Warriors. I John Vivians put East Central o u t f r o n t 2-0 b u t f o u n d themselves down 8-2 before Bob Holloway connected for the War- riors again. - .,%,?. ECJC closed the gap to 10-9on- ly to see the Wolves score eight more unanswered ~ o i n t s to go ur, 18-9 and steadily %begintovpuil away a s they led by a s many a s 16 when Robbin Harris made

1 Lady Warriors Warriors Lose Twice

The ECJC Lady Warrior man- aged to split in basketball action this past week defeating Hinds 75-67 then losing to Utica 72-66. The Warriors of East Central fell victim to Hinds 91-83 and then lost In the Hinds game, the Lady Warriors led by 1 at half time, 4n-39, before taking control in the cond half to win by 8. Four players scored in double figures a s Karen Miller led with 16 points. Miller was aided by 13 points from Barbara Jones, 12 points from Sethia Townsend, and 12 points from Anita Union. Leading the Lady Eagles of Hinds was Shirley Against the Lady Bulldogs of Utica, East Central Warriorettes re leading the game until an injury forced Sethia Townsend to the bench. Without Townsend in the line up, the Lady Warriors could not keep pace with Utica in the second half and eventually lost the game 72-66. For the Lady arriors, Karen Miller had 17 to Utica 105-67. Walker with 21 points.

15, and Barbara Jones added 12. Utica's Clara Banks led their

scoring effort with 26 points.

The Warriors found the going

tough against Hinds as the ~ a ~ l e s connected 25 of 36 attempts in the first half for an amazing 69% from the floor. The Warriors shot 50% ' from the floor and still found themselves trailing 50-38 at half- time. The Warriors cut the lead to 3 at one point in the second half only to see Hinds finally win 91-83. Leading the Warriors was Talby Bender with 25 points, followed by

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The Lady Wolves cut this to good on a three-point play a t 18-16before East Central got free 23-1 fi throws from Amos and Town- "- &" The Warriors slowly came send to go ahead 20-16 only to see back and cut the deficit to six a t C0Lin hit six straight points and 41-35 and was only down 48-39 a t take the lead for the first time, intermission. 22-20 with 9:05 remaining in the After the break, CoLin got the

Ronnie Bender with

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Kenney Morgan shot for 14 points. Leading Hinds was Sterling King

first two baskets for a 52-39 lead a but East Central didn't give UK , and fought back to withiifive a1 60-55 but once again the Wolves hit three straight baskets to ur its lead 2nd pull away down thc homestretch for the victory.

with 28 points.

Against Utica, the Warriors kept pace in the first half, and trailed by 4 at halftime, 45-41. However, in the second half, the Bulldogs exploded for 60 points while the Warriors went cold from the floor and could only score 26 points as Utica easily won, 105-67. Leading the Warrior effort was Talby

Leading the winners with a game high of 29 points was Rob- bin Harris followed by Johnny Steptoe with 24, while Terry Champ and Vincent Harris add- I 1 ed 12 apeice. Hitting double figures for East I ~ e n t r a lwas Talby Bender with I ' 17, Vivians 13, ~ d b Holloway 11 and Gary Anderson 12. Coach Larry Gressett said

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Bender with 21 points.

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