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ECCC Warriors bring home double win By Scott Walters The Mend an Star suffered an injury in practice. Cassandra King has also missed some practice time this week with a muscle injury.

"Evelyn Nelson played sparingly tonight," Pace said. "Of course, my backup point guard has a knee injury and we lost another player tem– porarily in an automobile accident." Still, East Central is 5-0 on the season. The Lady Warriors were led by a 16-poin formance from Monica Davis. Rene Ree , guard from Forest, was next with 14 points. ECCC raced to a 10-2 lead and enjoyed a 46- 25 advantage at the break. ;)Al. • East Mississippi (men) 95, Mary Holmes 93: A free throw binge by Orlando Robertso helped the Lions preserve this win on their.tibtnlo floor. i "Robertson was good in the clutch tomght. EMCC coach Tom Edwards said. "If you cao'l'UiJ>s to the line and put the ball in t he hole dowo tb!J stretch, it will be hard for you to get beat. Anii did that for us." 1 b.asa Robertson, a 5-9 sophomore from West Po&ot;,f hit on 5-of-6 foul shots in the final minute,.~tr" totaled 11 points on the night. I • Marcus Tallie paced the L10ns, 2-3 on th~)<-:3 son, with 20 points. Reignea Ford topped doltbYlq figures again with 19 points. "Tallie had a nice night inside," Edwards -. · "He needs to be a constant for us this year. o, of course, we got our usual performance from Ford." Freshman forward Larry Walker paced the Eagles with 24 points in a losing effort. •East Mississippi (women) 66, Mary Holmes 60: The Lady Lions won for the first time in four outings. "It may not have been pretty, but it was a win," EMCC women's coach Dale Peay said. "We were in bad need of a win right now." It was a contest ofswings. Mary Holmes' Stephanie Fortune drilled a three-pointer to knot the clubs at 19-19. From ther e, EMCC enjoyed a 13-3 tear. Freshman Gwen Smith converted a three-point play and then converted a steal into a fast-break layup capping that run. EMCC led 38-30 at the break before Mary Holmes utilized a 14-0 run to grab a six-point lead. The teams were tied five times from the 10- minute mark to the 5-minute mark. Two free throws by Smith and two more by Jennifer Lee helped seal the win for the hosts.

SCOOBA - It was quite a night for the local teams entered in the East Mississippi Basketball Cla!'sic played Wednesday at the Currie Coliseum. The East Central Community College Warriors swept a pair of afternoon games from Shelton State Community College of Tuscaloosa, Ma. In the evening session, the East Mississippi

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