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ceiving athletic scholarships at four-year schools (Tulane and Jackson State) before transferring toGCCC. As a resu tt, Gulf Coast had to forfeit the Coahoma win, setting Sekul back to win No. 198. Coahoma's 50-game winless streak wasn't broken however...the Tigers also used an ineligible player. "I don't know whether we're go– ing to have a loss or whether it's going to be no game or what," Se– kul said. "We're in limbo. We've probably got a loss and a tie, but

"It was a rule that we were aware of. It was a rule pertaining to the out-of-state transfers. The same rule doesn't apply to the in-district (transfers). It's kind of two sets of rules. The players have got a la– wyer. I don't know how far they're going to get, but it's definitely a rule that discriminates against players from out-of-state." Under MJCA rules, out-of-state reverse transfers lose a year of eli-

DECATUR- Gulf Coast coach George Sekul won't be going for his 200th career juco win after all wn en h1s Bulldogs invade East Central Saturday for a 7:30p.m. South Division contest. The Dogs played a pair of inelig– i ble players in a 21-0 season– opening win at Coahoma. Reverse transfers Derwin Hawthorne and ~icholas Browning had used up their two years of eligibility prior to the 1990 season. They were re-

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the second half offensively. "The defense played tough all night. They never did give up. They just couldn't make the big plays when they needed to." The Dogs• quarterbacks are so– phomore Jamie Oatis and freshman Bernie Parker. Oatis is more of a running quarterback, while Parker is adrop-back passer. GCCC linebacker Bennie Bazely (6-2, 230) was mentioned for preseason honors by J.C. Grid– Wire. Kilpatrick saw the GCCC– Coahoma 'game.' "I don't think they're contenders right now, but generally speaking, they're a pretty good football team." Gulf Coast holds a commanding 29-8-2 series lead, including a 23-2-1 dominance in the last 26 meetings. ECCC's last win was in 1983, 11-2.

rushing and 181 passing) to 159 for Co-Lin. Sophomore fullback An– thony Walker ofDemopolis, Ala., led the Warriors with 160 yards rushing. "Walker ran pretty well," Kil– patrick said. "He had several good runs." Starting quarterback Lamont Byrd has struggled in the first two games. He has completed only 11-of-50 passes with five interceptions. Sophomore linebacker Wyatt Williams leads ECCC's defense with 18 tackles. Sekul saw the ECCC-Co-Lin game. "They looked like a big im– provement from last year. East Central dominated the first half. I thought they were the better team, but they just couldn't do nothing

.,.ibility even if they don't play if tbe'i are on athletic scholarshlp. In– disina players can ~ccept fm~cial atd as redshirts without losmg a )"Ur of eligibility. The 0-2 Warriors of E~C~ tnmed in a much better showmg m last \\eek's 17-12loss at Copiah– Lmcoln than they did in a 23-7 season-opening loss LO Delta. ~we looked better on paper any– ~y.'' ECCC coach A.J . Kilpatrick saxd. ··we just didn't win. We had more>ards offensively and defen- ively the team played well. I was verY pleased with the defense. We ga~e up one touchdown. on a fumble in midair. We bad a kickoff return for a touchdown calledback and 70 of their yards came on one play late in the game." ECCC had 376 total yards (195

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