1990

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Jones head coach listens as East Central triumphs By TONY PETTIS Star sports writer iod. By the 18:30 mark, ECCC had run !he lead back out to 10 and Jones would never get it below six the rest of the night. .

"Adrenaline can only go so far," Herrington sa1d. "Then ability takes over and I think they have more ability !han we do. We got it close for a while, but by the time we were into the second half good, we were out of it." And out of it big time. Jones went five and a half minutes during one stretch without a basket, and were only two of 11 from the foul line during that span. The Warriors, conversely, hit three field goals and were a perfect four-for-four from the stripe while Jones was cold. Byt the end of that stretch, ECCC was up 79-66 and never looked back. "I was really happy that we were able to keep the intensity level up," said ECCC coach Jay Bowen. "We got a lead and we kept it even when it Jooked like they were going to take it away. That's what I'm proud of." Bowen, whose team moved to 8-3 on the year, 1-1 in the South division, said the game was critical for ECCC. "If we lost this game we were out of it as far as the playoffs go," Bowen sai~. "That might ~ound strang_e to say in December, but ma league that IS as compeu– tive as ours, if you stan out 0-2, you can ldss it good– bye. We had to have this one." Freshman guard Tony Bailey was the big scorer for the Warriors with 26 points. Four other ECCC players got into double figures in the game. Jones was led by Ferris E~lis, who had 23. J ONES (88)- Chris Keeton 8, Joseph Cooper II. Joe Brown 4, Jus lin White 8.Ferris Ellis 23. Stanley McCollum 8, Eric Robins 8. Eric Jones 3, Tor· rey John 2. Wyatt Sterling 4, Scotty McCullough 7. EAST CENTRAL (106)- Ton> Baaley 26, Charlie Donnenon 6. Tyrone Stoweu IS, Mtch•cl limes 8, Kevin Kenne

DECATUR- All Jones Junior Colleg~ coach Marc Dukes could do Tuesday night was listen. And the sounds he heard were not exactly what he wanted to hear. Dukes, hit by two technical fouls in the first halfof his team's 106-88loss to East Central, was forced to listen to the fina l 20 or so minutes of the game from the Bobcat dressing room. "It was preuy rough in there," Dukes said. "It ':'as really difficult at first being in there and not bemg able to do anything. After a while, though, I calmed down." Dukes however, was far from calm on the Jones bench. H1s first technical came at the 15:56 mark, with his team down 11-4. The second one was the clincher, with :47 seconds to go before the first half buzzer. On the second technical, Dukes was apparently upset over a foul shot he thought should have been nullified for ECCC. However, he declined to com– ment on what happened after the game. ''I'm not going to say anything about it," Dukes said. Dukes •second technical came at a critical juncture for Jones. The Bobcats had been down by as many as 16 several times in the first half, but had clawed their way back to within nine, 47-38, when Dukes was sent to the dressing room. After that, Jones outscored the Warriors 4-0 to cut the lead to five at the half (47-42). . . "I thought the kid really came b_ack msptred after what happened," said Bobcat asststent coach Bob Herrington, who took over for Dukes on the Jone_s bench. "Initially, they played reaJiy well. We cuttt down and had a chance at the half." . . . However, Jones could not keep tt up m fmal per-

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