1990

• 1n arriors fall short 70-69 setback East Central men fall to 5-9 on season By Jimmy Boone ft:flal to the Star of chasing basketballs.

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. Both teams had starters m foul trouble early, but the Warriors especially were hurt when Tyrone Stowers bad to hit the bench early in the second half, and had to play with a vastly smaller line-up than the Bears. "We felt qutte fortunate to be in the game this close with our big men on the bench," Warnor coach Jay Bowen said. ·•our line– up got real small quickly, and yet we were still able to get rebounds and score." The Warriors had two oppor– tunities to w'in in the waning moments of the ballgame. With 15 seconds remaining, the War– riors got possession on a tie ball. "We were actually trying to foul, and got the jump ball instead,'' coach Bowen explAined. The ball was brought down court and a shot set up, but it bounced of the rim. SOUTHWEST (71>- Freddie Scott 20, Ke\in Hamilton 15, Adrian Sanders 14, Tim Herring 9, Mike Mernweather 9, Roderick Gregoire 3. EAST CENTRAL (69) - Terry Thames 17 Travis Watkins 15, Charlie Donnerson to' Eric Mays 9, Tyrone Stowers 8, Tyrone

Free throw shooting can often be the difference between victory and defeat in basketball. The Southwest Community College Bears (12-3) discovered ate unportance of making free dlrows a t the right time in their 11-69 victory over East Central Olmmunity College (5-9). In the last five minutes of the pme the Bears could not sink a single field goal, however they did manage to hit 6-7 free thro~s to give them the one-pomt margm of victory. It was a quite ironic end to a pme in which East Central had stayed close, partly because of 1ts success from the line, making u-of-15 fo r the night and Southwest's failure, 15-of-31. However, when the Bears needed to sink free throws, success came. Tbe game proved to be a defen– sive s truggle. At the half East Central 6eld a precious 39-38 lead and the greatest lead of the night would only be five points. It was a night of stolen passes, and

Bender s, Michael James 4. HALFTIME: ECCC, 39-38.

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