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EMCC women triumph SC003A -The} ay the pretlle 1 thin~ m the "orld is the sm aeon face o f a happy girl. But if } ou saw the look. on the face of coat"h Dwle Pea~ .1fter his Lady Lion~ of Ea t ~h'i ·ipi had just defc-·ed the h1ghly-regarded East Cen•r I Communut> College Lad) Wamor 7 :!-59 Tuesday ntghtm Ke~e T Currie Coli– Se.Jm, \'OU could ha\e made an ar– gu ... meru for srn II town basketball coache . The L d} Lion~ of EMCC strode to a larg<. ~cond-half lead, then he ld o n f"~r the 13-poim ,-j tor. • ..\\e ju't came out ready to play ball tonight," a grinning Peay nott.d after the game. "After we lo tto them earlier in the year, we could have been mumidated by them. but we really came out read) to pia) " East Central grabbed its last lead at 5-2 wllh 16:11 remaining in the first half before surrender– ing eight straight points to the Lady Lions, who never looked back. After a 10-0 run to move ahead 22-10 at the 7:53 mark of the first half, the Lady Lions and their fans could already begin to smell an upset. The biggest lead of the first half for Peay's women was a 15-point margin at 33-18. Two free throws put the Lady Lions up by 18 at 57-39. Peay was worried coach Sammy Pace's Lady Warnors might stage a com-

L1ons contnbutea great!) TRWCamshatts win. "I thought it was a b Formostsmollbtock ": for us to hold (Shea) C ,_c_he-'vv-·_™..;:.27;..;.4___ ~..,

eback if his bunch let down. A comeback was in the minds of the Lady Warriors. ECCC hit a 10-2 run which closed the score to 59-49 with 7:02 still remaining in the contest. "When they cut it to ten, we could have quit," Peay noted. "But we hung in there and kept hus– tling. We didn't shoot free throws very well at all in the first half, but we hit 'em when they counted down the stretch." A stingy defense by Lhe Lady

scoreless," Peay said. "Sh1 hurt us the first time we them." The4-1 Lady Warriors by Carolyn Boatman's 21 followed by 18 from : Lowe. Paula Nash add ECCC. The Lady Lions of Ell prove to 3- 1 on the youn Candace Blair led EMCC

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