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Region 23 tourney to start Monday at MC

By Lee Baker Clarion-Ledger Staff Wrtt.r

JUNIOR COLLEGES shipThursdayat 6:30p.m. Admission to each session will be $4 for adults, $2 for students. Team boasts talent: All-state basketball teams feature some of the nation's best JC talent, espe– cially Northeast's Dontae Jones and Pearl River's Elaine Powell. Besides Jones, the North men's first team includes teammate Todd Sorrell, Northwest's Sa n chez Blake, East's Marcus Tallis and Itawamba's Bradd Ball. The South first teamers are East Central's Marcus Mann and Anthony Cole– man, Pearl River's TorinoEdwards, Co-Lin's DeCarlos Anderson and GulfCoast's Sam Bowie. North women's first teamers are Northeast's Dee Roberts, Delta's Shannon Horne, Northwest's Shantell Atkins, Itawamba's Nei– sha Dobbs and Holmes' Mahalia McDonald. The South picks in ad– dition to PoweU and PR teammate Lavet a Willis are East Central's Rena Reed an~ Evelyn Nelson and Hinds' Latina Edwards. Named to themen's second~ North -Don Proctor, Delta; Tommy Mumford, Coahoma; Pee– Wee Thornton, Northwest; Ronnie Randle, East; Tyler Mills, North– east. South - Kevin Baptiste, Southwest; Robert Wilkerson, Gulf Coast; Reggie Ware, Co-Lin; Antho– ny J ohnson, Hinds; Zack Edwards, Pearl River.

Mississippi junior college bas– ketball playoffs continue into a third week with the Region 23 tour· nament next week at Mississippi College. The regional victors advance to the nationals- men at Hutchinson, Kan., women at Tyler, Texas - March 15-19. Looking at past region– als, the outcomes ofdivision and state play mean little on who emerges from MC's neutral Wood Coliseum with tickets to the big shows. Men's pairings: In first round men'splay,No.l~ortheastandNo. 6 ltawamha meet Monday at 7:45 p.m.; No. 2 East Central and No. 5 Mississippi Gulf Coast play Tues– day at 7:45p.m.: No. 3 Northwest Mississippi and either Delgado (La.) or Mary HolmesmeetTuesdayat 1:45 p.m.; and No. 4 Pearl River goes against Bossier Parish (La) Monday at 1:45 p.m.. Delgado and Mary Holmes were to settle the Indepen– dent No.2 spotWednesday. The semifinals will be Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. and 7:45p.m. and the championshipThursday at 8:15p.m.. Women 's pa irings: The wom– en's first round pairs No. 1Pearl River andNo.7 Copiah-Lincoln Monday at 6 p.m.; No. 2 East Central and No. 6 Holmes Tuesday at 6 p.m.; No. 3 Northeast and Hinds Tuesday at ·noon; and N(J. 4 Northwest and Me– ridianMonday at noon. The semifinals will be Wednesday at noon and 6 p.m. and the champion·

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