1982-1986

East Central falls twice to Wolves By George Miller The Meridian Star DECATUR- East Central Junior College shot poorly from the field here Monday night against Copiah-Lincoln Junior College and the Warriors were handed a 69·59 setback b) the visiting \\ olves. C~Lin's Lady Wolves had a torrid :,hooting pace in the night's open– ing game and raced to a 92-69 triumph over the Lady Warriors. "We didn't shoot well at all. Shooting 39 percent for the whole game is not good at all,' ' ECJC's Steve Rtves said. "That's not good against their big zone." Rives added. "Our kids played hard, but they must shoot better to win, ·• Rives pomted out that Copiah-Lincoln connected on 19 of 21 free throws. "When you hit that many from the free th~m,·I:ne. \\rule you are be– ing fouled, you should win ballgames:· Rives said. " We weren't able to get enough offense f!e,er •• ted on our end of the court to be able to get back into the game.·· East Central. 10-7. was trailing 28-22 at intermission, but could get no closer tha n eight points down the stretch. The Wolves, 16·3, were led in scoring b) Dontray Wtlliams with 20 points. Keith Tobias with 16 and Daran Reeves with 14. Mike Mills paced the ECJC attack with 20 points as Johnny Gill add– ed 12. Ronnie Bender and Drew Garvin added mne and eight respectively Both East Central and Co-Lin .,.. ill be in action Thursdaf as the Wolves will visit Utica, while the Warriors will trek to Pear River. " It's hard to win on the road and when you do it's a joy.'' Mike J ones of the Wolves said. "Our kids played a good patient game and I think one of the keys to winning it was we didn't let them have two or three sHotS," Jones added. "It was a team effort and I feel good about them not being selfish. We had two players disctplined and we could have been hurt if we had got into foul trouble." It didn' t take long for the Lady \\olves to live up their No.2 J unior:– College ranking in the nation and

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