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Warrri rs pay visit to Tigers ByMARTY STAMPER Two teams looking for a good !f;rush to a long year bump heads when East Central visits Northeast Thursday at 6:30p.m. in Keenum S'-!dm:m in Booneville. ECCC is 3-6 overall, while ;-;anheast is 2-6-1. Neilher team is coming in with 1. lot of momemrum as ECCC was hammered, 42-14, by Jones and . 'ortheast was having similar re– sults in a 34-0 loss to Delta in last Saturday's games. "We're going to have to play pretty good to beat Northeast after taking the shellacking we took last week," ECCC coach A.J. Kilpat– rick said. Losing Tim Jackson, Wyatt Williams, and Dee Dee Moore to early-game injuries against Jones opened the door to a rout. Those

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three are among the top four tack– lers on the team. ' 'Take those three out and we don'tplay well," Kilpatrick said. Dynassus Buggs leads the War– riors in tackles with 93, whileWil– liams has 81, Jacks on 48, and Moore42. "They ought to be back playing pretty well this week," Kilpatrick

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freshman wide receiver/return specialist Dia Hicks of Tallahas– see, Fla. He's scored 54 points and has returned three kickoffs for ~ouchdowns. He scored four t o u chdow ns against East Mississippi. Northeast has beaten Coahoma (27-10) and Holmes (27-13), while losing to Southwest (30-7), Co-Lin (24-0), East Mississippi (36-24), Itawamba (50-24), North– west (54-13), and Delta (34-0), and tying Gulf Coast (24-24). The Tigers have a five-game losing streak. ECCC leads the series. 16-6. Northeast won last year's game, 13-7, in Decatur, but ECCC won 20-16 at Booneville in 1988.

said of his banged up trio of defensemen. Sammie Holifield leads ECCC's ground game with 742 yards and four touchdowns on 124 carries. Fullback Anthony Walker has 86 carries for 566 yards. Quar– terback Lamont Byrd has rushed for 374 yards and five touch– downs on 73 carries and has com– pleted73-of-202 passes for 1,007 yards. Byrd is tied with Willie McClelland for the team scoring lead with 30 points apiece. Kicker Pete Porter has 26 points, making 3-of-5 field goals and 17-of-19 ex– tra points. Tony IGdd leads the Warriorre– ceivers with 33 catches for 453

yards, while Kendrick Coleman has 12 catches for 184 yards. Felton Bunoughs has four in– terceptions, while Hayes Petty has three. Most of the individual leaders are sophomores and Thursday's game will be thei r last for the black-and-gold. "I think our kids will play well," Kilpatrick said. "They were pretty much demoralized after last week. We had hoped for a 5-5 fin– ish, but we're going to miss that. "I believe they'll snap up and play pretty good. I sure hope they do:" Northeast's top weapon is

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