1990

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Scheduli Sad, bu t true. East Mississippi and East CentraJ community col– leges won't meet on the gridtron th1s fall ... unless It's in the stale playoffs And you can 'l blame either school for ducking or dodging the other. The Mississ ippi Junior/ Community College Association hand les the scheduli ng for the ' league 's schools. When the 1990 and 1991 schedules were made, EMCC and ECCC were not ~Is ted to face each other. ECCC is in the South DhlSlon while EMCC is in the '-:ruth E school plays the other six mus di– vision and a random foudrom lbc other league.

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1988 or 1989. but met in the 1988 state championship contest with Hinds winning, 25-20. EMCC outscored ECCC, 49-35, in 1989. Both of the rivalries have been closely contested. ECCC holds a 26-23-4 advantage over EMCC, while Hinds lead s Holmes, 26-22-2. Maybe a solution would be to go loa four-yea r rota tion . Play the current North-South divisions two years and then go to an East-West altgnmeot for the third and fourth years. That way every school would pia)' the others at least twice every four years. The East Division could have

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did not meet from 1980-83. They also skipped the 1972-75 seasons. EMCC faces Co-Lin and Pearl River this year for the fin,ttimc since 1985. ECCC takes on Coahoma for the first time since 1983. Those two played each other only twtcc in the 1980s. Pearl River and Holmes also meet this fall for the first lime since 1985. Arban and Kilpatrick have coached at both EMCC andECCC over the year<: and know the 'ri– valry' from each side. Other Llum the faculty members \!rho have been at either school for any length of time, lhey may soon be among the few lhal remember what it once was.

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Northeast, ltawamba , EMCC. ECCC, Jones, Pearl River, and GulfCoast, with theWest Division hav ing Northwest , De lta , Coahoma, Holmes, Hinds. Copiah– Lincoln, and Southwest. A radical concept for a l~ague that seemingly invemed the 'If it ain't b r o ke, don't f1.x u· philosophy. "ldon' tthink there's am main le fl \\ llh the studen!l> bcc~use. we've played so few tunes latcl> ... ECCC coach A.J. Kilpatrick said of the once-intense rivalr) with EMCC. "You can't hardly have a nva~ unless you play every year, especially in the junior colleges. You let two classes go by and all

o·s dose by," C. Arban said. offans. There's

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do about it" ECCC played tn _,_...,....,.,.. four seasons

afu· noun~ from l9 2-85. The) 2lsD ::!d t meet m 1 'J"r after pla~m~ eat:h other 33 umes OYeT the pre\ ious 31 ')~ars. (The~ met twice tn the 19·7 and 1958 seasons). Hinds and Holme played in each of the 1984-87 seasons, but

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