1991

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ECCC Warriors sting 1 By STAN TORGERSON I Star sports correspondent Central and it was free throws that finally won it. The Warriors were called for 30 fouls, giving the Bulldogs 40 free throws of which Lhey made 27. Gulf Coast committed only 18 fouls wilh ECCC getting just 22 chances at the I i ne, 12 of them good.

DECATUR - East Central Community College be– came the first Mississippi team to defeat Gulf Coast CC tflis season when they upset the Bulldogs &0-78 Thursday night in a game that can only be called a classtc. Gulf Coast came in with a season's record of 18-2 in– t:luding 6-0 in South Division play. Their only two losses were both to Faulkner State of Alabama and their victims had included ECCC, who had lost to them 89-72 earlier th1s season. The Warriors were 15-3 themselves, includ– mg 5-l in the league, thanks to the defeat by the Bulldogs. It was free throws that almost lost the game for East Gulf Coast but m•.de the second and ECCC's margain went to two. G_ul Coast brought the ball in with 10 seconds lefl and ~ ,ll to guard Dale Bro~ who ~igned recently with Ken– ucky on Lhe ~trength of h1s abllny to hit the 3-point shot l~om the outs1de. Brown gor the shot away but it hit the nm and bounced away no good as the Warriors ' gym erruptcd. .. To give you ~ idea of why this game deserved to be c:tllc~ J class1c, m the_s,econd h~f al?ne the lead changed hand.;, I 3 limes m addlt:ton to bemg ued on six occasions. A gnnrung coach. Jay ~m~en C..tlled iL one of his big– gest \\JllS ever. r~nking With la:)t year when his team beat Hmds. whe? Hmds was on its way Lo the state champiOnship m.tdc our free throw:, wc·d ha\e still won. The future doesn't gel an: easier for Lhe Warriors. The) go on the road Monda) m~ht Lo play at Jones, a 1cam that pnor to last nighl's acuo~ was only one game behind t11em in the league :;tandmg:;. GCCC (78) - Robcn Polk 1~. O!ns B:x!c"M, De:riu Gallien 7, Maurice Stephan li. D•lc Bro"'n 1~. Nate Bark= ~ Poctnd: HawU:.om 7. t:ccc (80) - Eric ~h)s 7, TCII) Thz:::a Mci: S:rib1ing 4, Marvin Nash 6, Tyrone fia~der 3, Kevm Kcnnc:o!y 14, Tccy & y Ci, Tyrone Stowers 14, Michael Jame$ 7. VU~J) Hoplon 6, J.P \ i-=cCc J llalrtime SCQf"e: Gulf Caul ~34 R«-orlb: Gol!f Cow Ji-3 - ~ Ccm.~ 1~3 • EAST CE~'TRAL WO~lE~ 91, GLLF COAST 72: Ea~t Central's Lady \'amors \\00 an eas) one, 91-72 O\cr Gulf Coast's Lad~; B lido~!> as i~ members of the home team scored 'tth ax a( lllem in double figures. Jad.ie Gladney had a nigl!t to remember v.rith 17 points, CARTH :\GI~I..:.:\~~IORTO\ TR I Bt.J\ _ ?\ESHOB:\ DDIOCK.~A--=T--/7----- NEWTO\ RECORD V CLARIO\- LEDGER --- - poill1 shots. Even so if we had

The game turned on the last four. Tied 78-78 with :34 seconds to play, ECCC's Terry Thames was fouled in the act of shooting. Thames missed the first but made the second and Lhe Warriors had a one point lead. GCCC brought the ball down looking for an open shot. They had it from Lhe top of the key, but guard Robert Polk turned it down, electing to drive the lane. He stopped, shuffled his feet and was called for traveling, the ball going back to Lhe hometeam with only 11 seconds to play. On the inbounds pass the Warriors' Tony Bailey \ .·~ fouled. AI. Ule line he too missed the first free throw L ,n,"'i • . ··-· ~..-... . ... "' ... , .. ''T'm very proud," he glowed. " My team gave L11e very best of what it had to give." What did he tell them in the last few seconds? Pretty sumdard stuff, "Play half court pressure man-to-man, con– tCSI the shot but don't foul." That's what they did. "If someone had told me they would outscore us 15 points from the free throw line I would have said we would lose the game by 30. We really can't match up with them. They're bigger and better than us." Not last night, coach. Meanwhile all was gloom in the Gulf Coast dressing room. Coach Bob Weathers was not a happy camper. "We had some very selfish ball players tonight," he growled. TI1ey kept putting it on the floor and trying to take it to the basket. We don't normally do that. We played a lot of one on one and I'm not a one on one coach. Our sbOL selection was awful. For example it. the first half we hit only eight for 23 two pointers and for the five assists and seven steals. Carolyn Boatman picked up 13 rebounds to go wilh her 11 points. Paula Nash turned 111 an impressive 10 points, eight rebo~nds and s~ven_ as– sists while tall Misty Wright made stx baskets m e~ght ~hots plus a free throw for 13 points and als?_was cred1ted \\ 1th six rebounds. ECCC had only a 42-33 halftime lead but ran away with the game in the final 20 minutes. . .. The winners are now 4-3 in the Southern DIVISIOn of .he JVUCA and 10-5 overall. For Gulf Coast the year con– unues to be a total disaster with a league mark of 0-7 and a seasonal record of 1-16. Gt;LF CCC (721 - Ouu Smil.'l 12, Cuolyn Bus 7, Jennifer Wells 7, An~S

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