1982-1986

East Central loses opener 1 7-0 East Central opens season on a .do\c"nnote when f h e Itawamba In- dians defeated the Warriors by a score of 17-0 Saturday night

Berry was good. The only othc scoring attempt came % hen Itauan ba attempted a 20 yard field go: leaving the score at half-time 7-0 1ta%amba7ssecond touchdow came late in the 3rd quarter. Tf drive followed an interception of David Pleasant pass uith Glen 1\ scoring on a 25 yard run, Berry kicl ed the extra point with .39 seconc left in the 3rd quarter. The score stayed 14 to 0 till l a in the fourth quarter when Beri kicked a twenty yard field goal.

Firrt quarter found both teams in- vading each others territory without success. -Indian Xlitch Eubanks led his team in the second quarter uith a 25 yard drive. The big play coming from Mike Smith to tightend Calvin Ttfompson for 23 yards. Glen Ivy scored from the one yard out. Ex- r r g nnint I r i r G ~ r l hv Indinn Anfhnnv

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ECJC Warriors scratched by PRJC East Central Junior College lost a hard fought defensive battle to Pearl River Junior College as the Warriors were unable to take advantage of a scoring opportunity late in the ballgame. Trailing by seven .points with just over five minutes to play, ECJC had the ball with first-and goal scoring strike. Joey Tatum's PAT made the score 7-0 with 6:20 remain- ing in the half. The Warriors came right back and on the first play follow- ing the kick-off, Marvin Pearson ran 75 yards for the score. Verandel Irons kicked the PAT to tie the score a t 7-7 with 5:58 remaining.

arriors and Trojans met on th the second game with the Wal

from the three yard line but could not score as the Wildcat defense gave up only two yards in four downs and held on to win 14-7. ,, All of the scoring in the game occur- red midway into the second quarter in a span of less than one minute. The Wildcats struck first as Scott Favre hit Anthonv Robinson on a 16 vard

Following the Warrior kick-off, Pearl River's Scott Favre hit Arthur Dozier on a 75 yard scoring pass and Joey Tatum kicked the PAT to make the score 14-7 with 5:39 remaining in the first half. This ended the scoring for the night as both defenses controll- ed the game for the rest of the game.

on to defeat Delta 71-56. __

Co-Lin stops Warriors 1 with 4th quarter rally I The ECJCWarriors sawa 14-6 fourth larter slip away as Copia-Lincoln JC ored twice in the final period to post 20-14 victory on a rain-soaked field in resson.

ECJC game 1 vill be played at Perkinston

got the scoring honors witha three yara run with 5 minutes remaining in the third quarter. Irons' pat was good once again. As the fourth period started, theWar- riors luck started to change. A Salter pass was intercepted at the Co-Lin 44 and eight plays later, quarterback Leonard Johnson scored on a keeper from two yards out. The pat attempt failed, and EC held a one point lead. Salter was intercepted again later in the game and after a good return of the theft, set up Co-Lin at the Warrior three. Danny Hobbs scored on the next play to round out the scoring on the evening. East Central will travel to Poplarville to play the Pearl River Junior College Wildcats on October 4th. Next home ac- tion for the Warriors will be against NAirr nnlts nn r\l.tnhar 1 1

I Due t o t he damage caused by hurricane Elana, t he E a s t Cen- tral Jun i or College v s Gulf Coast game will be played a t P e r k i n s t o n i n s t e a d nf Pascagoula. . --

Co-Liwcored the only points of the -.rst half-ion a 4 yard run by Robert Sewell with 11:02 left in the second period. EC quarterback Dewan Salter brought the Warriors back into contention with 1 - scoringpass to Isaac Harris on the first ~ssession on the second half. Verandel ons kicked the pat to give East Cen- a1 a 7-6 lead. After forcing.the Wolves to punt, the 'arriors continued their offensivesuc- :ss with a 80 yard, 12play drive to run le advantage to 14-6. Marvin Pearson -- -