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successful season Will the Warriors repeat as state champions? Is tlus the year the Lady Warriors make it to the top? The answers to those ques– tions will not be known for sev– eral weeks, of course, but indica– tions are that both East Central Community Colleges basketball squads will have successful - and possible championship - seasons during the 1993-94 campaign. Both talent-laden teams have been working "extremely bald" in preparation for season open.• lng contests at Mississippi Delqr on Friday, November 5. The Warriors and Lady Warriors face additional road trips at East Mi ssissippi on Monday, November 8, followed by partic– ipation in tournaments sched– uled at Jones (November 12-13) and East Mississippi (November 17-18). The first home games are set with Holmes on Saturday, November 20. Expected to again lead the Warriors this year is sophomore Mucus ManA of Ca~ " ,.,..._. ......... .._ ...... SchMJI. ......... fi.'l, - pound forward, averaged 21 points and 12 rebounds per con– test and was the only freshman selected team All American. He was also named All Region 23, (Corfu.led on Page 98)

year, their actual performance , was much better as five games had to be forfeited due to an ineligible player. Besides Reed, other sopho-, mores and their respective high t schools include guards Sara: t Hollingsworth (5'4"), Neshoba Central, and Carla Leflore (5'6"), Carthage; forwards Memory Hunter (5'9"), Philadelphia. and Jamala Odom (5'8"), Scott Cen– tral. Freshmen include guards , Kitty Thrash (5'5"), Sebastopol; ; J.J. Morehead (5'5"), Union, and Genia Griffin (5'5"), Morton; for– wards Wilma Cooksey (5'8") and Cassandra King (5'8"), both of Lake; forwards Evelyn Nelson (5'11") and LaDonna Robinson · (5'10"), both of Forest, and for– ward Kikki Ross (5'10"), Carthage; and centers Monica Davis (6'2") of Banks, Arkansas, and Dane Vance (6'2"), Philadelphia. Tip-off times are 6 p.m. for women's games followed by men's action at 7:45.

Sammy Pace said he is "very op– timistic" about this year's squad, which features five returnees, in– cluding All-State guard Rena Reed of Forest. Although the EC women posted a 14-13 record last All State and made the All Re– gion 23 Tournament Team. Other returnees and their re– spective high schools include Michael Coats (6', 170), Louisville; Clay Ward (6-2, 185), Winston Academy; Cederic Sledge (6-3, 1&5), Philadelphia; Eric Morga!'\ (5-1 0, 155). Carthage; Stacy Miller (6-4, 170) and Anthony Coleman (6-5, 195), both of Southern Choctaw, Al– abama; and Michael Holbert (6', 190), Morton. Freshman include Lee Thrash (6-1, 165), East Rankin Academy; Phillip Prince (6-1, 150), Leake Academy; Chris Hillie (6-6, 195), Newton; Mike Hurst (6-4, 185), Newton County; Eric Caples (6-3, 190), South Leake; and Vincent Spencer (6-4, 185) Neshoba Central.

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