1989

Lions, Warriors set points marks ~ Game story, 3B By Marty Stamper Special to The Star

Notes • EMCC coach J.C. Arban didn't expect the offensive explosion. "Hell, no," Arban said. "I didn't think they could do that to us, but we let them run the kickoffs back down there. They didn't have very far to go." • Arban said he wasn't trying to run up the score with an onside kickoff, leading 49-35 with only 2:42left. "I told him to kick it on the ground and one went in there and told him onside kick, the dummy. I didn't want to do that to them. I felt like we had them beat, hav– ing to score twice. It didn't look good. " • EMCC's 49 points were its

SCOOBA- East Mississippi's 49-35 win over East Central Mon– day night set four scoring records in the 60-year-old central Mississippi rivalry. EMCC's 49 points set a new mark ·for the Lions in the series and a new mark for the winning team. EMCC's previous high was 41 in 1969, while the winning total was set by East Central, 48-6 in 1939. ECCC's 35 points set a record for the losing squad. The previous high was 27 set by ECCC in 1981 (31-27). The 84 combined points shat– tered the previous mark of 60 in a 40-20 EMCC win in 1952.

J.C. Arban most since a 58-7 win over Coahoma in 1980, 89 games ago. ECCC's 35 was its most since a 44-0 win over Southwest in 1987, 17 games ago. • EMCC figured how to silence ECCC in the final period as the Lions ran 27 plays to only three for ECCC.

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