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merson of Louisville and Delori Griffin of South Leake led a scorers with 20 points each. Othe I pointmakers were Faye McDonal of Carthage, 17; Tracy Stuart o Neshoba Central, 11; Regina Amo of Union, 11; Barbara Jones o Lake, 8; and Wynne Stribling o

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It was sweet revenge for East Central Junior College Saturday night as both basketball squads downed visiting Meridian Junior College, avenging earlier season losses. The Lady Warriors outscored the Lady Eagles 89-81 while the Warriors, on clutch free-throws by Terry Hoskins and Byrne Drum- mond, held off the Eagles 74-71. - * I 9.

The Meridian women had earlier defeated the Lady Warriors 79-69 and the Eagles had beaten the Warriors 83-69. East Central was not as fortunate against visiting Jones Junior College Thursday night, as the Lady Warriors fell 77-67 in overtime and the Warriors were outscored 103-81.

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I I East Central led at halftimt 39-33. In the' men's contest, Arnes! Georgetown of Plaquemine., Louis iana was the top pointmaker wit1 26. Other scorers were PatricE Luttrel of Houston, 15; Jot McGowan, Oxon Hill. Marvland. 8 Terry Hoskins of Philadelphia, 6 Gary Anderson of Brent, Alabama 5; Bryne Drummond of Houston Texas, 5; Randy Fullington, also 01 Houston, Texas, 5; Glenn Rnh'lson of Edinburg, 2; and Gree ells. also fo Edinburg, Meridian led at halftlme 32-31. In Thursday's division game with Jones, Lady Warrior pointmakers 1 were Jimmerson, 24; Jones, 12; McDonald 11; Stuart 7; Amos 6; Griffin, 4; Stribling, 2; and Donald, 8 1. , The Jones women avenged an earlier 87-80 loss to East Central. In the men's contest, Anderson , led the Warriors with 16 points. ; Also scoring for East Central were McGowan, 11; Drummond, 9; Georgetown, 9; Wells, 8; Luttrell, 7; David Lott of Lake, Fullington, and Hoskins, 2 each. It was the second defeat of the season for East Central at the hands of the Jones squad, as the Bobcats earlier outscored the Warriors 95-65. In games this week, East Lentral will host Holmes Thursday, January ' 15 and will entertain Hinds in a division game, Monday, January 10

I Warriors d own Panthers by six By George Miller The Meridian Star - ..< ?. this season and each team boasted a win.

"We shot the ball poorly and those 10 turnovers i n the second half really decided the game," Clarke coach Josh Butler said. "You have got to give that bunch credit because they came over here and played well. " Clarke was also guilty of five turnovers in the first half, but managed to hold a 31-30 lead at intermission. Our turnovers and not shooting the ball well really turned the game around for them," Butler added. East Central (5-14) and Clarke (4-22) scored alternating baskets for most of the first half a s seven ties resulted. The final one of the half was a t 14-14. Kevin Bailey broke it with a free throw (15-14) with 10:15 re- maining in the segment. The Warriors spurted to a five-point lead (24-19)with 5.50 left, but the Panthers countered with six points to trim a 28-21 deficit to 28-27. Those were the only scor- ing splurges of the half that were more than single baskets. "I was just glad to get out of here alive," Warriors' coach Larry Gressett said. The twn teams have met twice

"We started getting on the boards and we went lo a 2-1-2 zone in the second half. We started hitting our baskets," Gressett added. "We weren't alert at all in the first half. We started out well, but we weren't sharp and we went to sleep." It was the second road win in a row for the Warriors. "I guess we woke up in time to win and it's always important when you win two gacles on the road," Gressett contrnued. Anderson and Drummond pac- ed the East Central scoring with 16 and 14 points as Arness Georgetown and Hoskins added 12 and 10 points respectively. "I guess they had another in- centive to win. I told them that we would have a hard practice if we lost," Gressett said. "It's always nice to beat a former player and to win two on the road." Terrell led the Panthers with 21 points a s John Jones and Ar- mistead added 18 and 14 points. The Warriors will host Copiah- Lincoln in Decatur Monday night with the round beginning a t 6.

NEWTON - A shaky second- half defense coupled with a poor shooting performance led to the downfall of Clarke College here Saturday night to the East Cen- tral Junior CollegeWarriors who took full advantage of the situa- tion for a 68-62 victory. The Panthers' Cornelius Ter- re11 hit his second three-pointer of the second half to put the Pan- thers ahead 54-53 with under seven minutes left in the game and Nate Armistead allowed Clarke to recapture the lead 56-55 with 5:17 left. That was the last time the homestanding Panthers led a s the Warriors continued to take advantage of Clarke turnovers to march to a 63-56 lead on a basket by Gray Anderson with 3:28 left. Gray hit another basket with 40 seconds remaining for a 65-60 lead that was more than the Pan- thers could overcome. Terry Hoskins and Byrne Drummond iced away the win with one and two free throws respectively with 13and 12 seconds left.