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By MARTY STAMPER

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Star sports writer

POPLARVILLE - With 7:45 remaining in ECCC in crunch time, while Mark Stribling had Monday's first-round action in the Mississippi five, Kevin Kennedy four, Tony Bailey three, and Community College Sooth Drvmon Tournameru. Marvin Nash two. East Central's Warriors didn't like what they saw. Thames started the rally with a three-point play. What the second-seeded Warriors saw was their With the Wildcats turning the ball over because of season flashing before their eyes as they n-ailed ECCC's defensive pressure on five of six posses– seventh-seeded Pearl River. 5.. -47, in the Marvm R. sions, lhe Warriors closed to within 63-62 with 2:43 White Coliseum. left on a 3-pointer by Bailey. A loss might .oot ~-e guarmteed the Warriors' Kennedy put EG:CC up. 64-63, with two free season was over, mn 11 certainly wouldn' t have throws at the 1:31 mark. Stribling hit two free shots helped their ch.ances of CXCJ.rinni.ng. at the 46-second mark and two more with 22 ~- So the Warriors rumed up their defense to lhe onds left to pad the lead. highest notch and OU1SCCred lbe host Wildcats by a Pearl River's Porter Wilks missed a tying 3-poin- 21-8 margin dmm lhe srret..'il to take a 68-65 win ter with fwe seconds on the clock. and advance to Werlnesda~ 's 8 p.m. semifi~ · 1 b,j1We ~?onr in torught witb a _goal of holding them 2 Jt .~1:ldt ooba:l ba.s II •• '{~<1 - • · e se to secure victory to iO points or --,"' ECCC coach Jay Bowen said. ..We thought defense would be the key to winning any tournamenL We Cll;ffie out and playe~ a great ~arne defensive!} . holding them to 65 pomts. We had to because v.e didn't shoot it very well. "Offensivel) . 'lire were very, very down and very off. Your defense is going to be good night in and night out Offenshely. you have a good night one night and the next night you ' re not very good. To– night was one cl those nights. Offensively, we couldn't score. Defense is what won it for us. "We were \-er) fortunate. Pearl River played re– ally well. In faa. they should have won. We '11 take the win and get oo the bus and go home." four each from Kennedy and Thames in a 15-5 nm to take a 30-24 lead into halftime. Thames led ECCC's scoring with 16 points, while Bailey had 14, Kennedy 10, and Stribling nine. ECCC' s highly-heralded duo of Michael James and Tyrone Stowers scored just one point total in limited action. That · point went to James. Pearl River saw its season end at 11-13, but got 19 points and 15 reboun~ from ~arnet Wilson, who missed much of the flJ'St half w1th three fouls. Coates added 18 points and Gerald Toler 10.

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EAST CENTRAL (") - Erio Maya2, Luther Riley 2, Teny Tbam.. 16, Marlc Striblin& 9. Matvin Nalh 6, Tyrone Bmdcr 3. Kevin Kennedy 10. Tcny Bailey 14, Michael lim~ I, J.P. VivCZ'CIUe S. PEARL RIVER ('5) - Pat Gray 4, Genld Toler 10. Kindall Leueu S, P011er Wii.U 9, fU111l\y Cootec 18, Garnet Willon 19. Halnlme Scott: ECCC. 30-24.

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