1993

East Central hopes to find formula for football success

know now, I feel like we have a chance to be competitive. We'll go into basically every game with the potential to come out a winner. It just depends on what other people have and what kind of talent thE'\ bring in. · "I hate to say we're going to w111 seven or we're going to win tim e. We could be anywhere in b<~l w<.wn there. But based on what 1\·c seen. we' re going to be a ht:tlcr football team." Ncshoba Countians on lhl' 1!1!13 roster arc co-captain 'l'dlas Moore, Lundy Branllcy, .knnuine Bolcr, Br·ad Moody, .Jc~nllrtinf• !•:vans. Donald llard in , I;~•( Williams. and Lamont Cnwi\PII I•X '( '(' opt~ns i Is fit.'<~lillll at htllll(' against t•:ast Mississippi on St•pl 2.

big linemen to f{rvc· {I hltlc more protection," Bridgruhn ,ard. "We also found tc. e;11mc linemen to play on the deh:nHiVc front that we feel like can gd 1he jnh done at least a little btl hdll•i' than we did last year,'' Brtdguwrl ruldcd. " You'e got to n~uh~111hcr last year was the ru·st y•~lu' tlwy went from 16 to 10 out·ol ·!illllt! scholar– ships," Bridgman sllid, " That hit us on a year wlwn \\'\~ played one of the toughest S<'lll•(lttlc::s that you could possibly pl:t)' iu I his lt•ague " ECCC had tn p !fl)' natrona! champion Nort h\\t •:(t mul howl participant Pt•nl'l ttiH!I "That was a Iough !>t•ns

8_}' MARTY STAMPER Democrat sports edttor

same offense and defense," Bridgman said. "We have pro– bably changed our approach in teaching a littl~ of it, but we real– ly haven't changed a lot other than learning what it's going to lake to get some of these kids to come here and slay here and want to be a part of our program." Todd Vowell returns at quarterback. "We feel like we've got a little more talent at quarterback this year although we're bringing back Todd who started most of last year," Bridgman said. "He's a year older and he's seen a lot. Regrettably, he had to see a lot of it from his back last year. He spent a lot of lime on the ground." Last year's offensive line was quite porous in its pass protection.

€CCC East Central Foot ball 1973-92

The East Central Community College Warriors s truggled through a long 10 weeks during the 1992 football season as they won on)). once and lost nine times. Most of the games weren't even close Consider the margin of defeat in losses toEast Mississip· pi (33-6 >. Gulf Coast <42·6), Itawamba <37-13>. Pearl River <40-0 ) , Northwest {48·7 ), and Jones <47-12l. The Warriors' only win came over perennial dormat Coahoma (20.8 l. They were only in two other games - losses to Copiah-Lincoln <37-32> and Southwest (31-27). ECCC was outscored 339-123 with the 339 points allowed setting a school record. Not that last year's showing was a ll that much out of the ordinary. Over the past 20 seasons, the Warriors have averaged 3 7 wins p<:r ,season as they have 74 wins, 123 losse.o.;, and s ix ties. Only five of those teams had winning sea~ons and nmw won nv<~r s<:vcn games The last hve teams have finish· ed below .500. Reese Bridgman enters his se· cond year at the Decatur school hoping to at least stop the bleeding if not turn things around. " It gave us an opportunity to get solidified in what we're doing and to Jearn what it lakes to win in this league and how to go about doing it," Bridgman said of getting a year's experience under his staff's belt. " I'm not saying that we're definitely going to walk out there and win a whole lot of games this year, but our program as a pro– gram is going to be much better from top to bottom." The Warr'iors won't look anv dif– ferent in how they line up. • ·'We changed a few technique things, but we're going to have the

6-3-1 .0-10 2-7-1 .5-5 .7-4 .2-8 .2·8 . .4-6

1983 1984 •.

1973 ...2-8 1974 .... . 2-7 1975 .....7-2-2 1976 . . . .6-4-1 1977 .....4-6 1978 ....6·3·1 1979 .... . . 4-6 1980 . .. .... 2-8 1981 .. ..... 4-7 1982 ....... 4-6

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990 . 1991. 1992 .

. . .. 4-6 .. 1·9

Total .. ........ . .. . .. 74-123·6

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Brad Moody

Tellas Moore

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Lee vo/ilhams

Jermatne Evans

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Donald Hardin

Lamont Crockett