1994

• ECCC women w1n Four losses to Pearl River forgotten with trip to Texas

Region

B_y MARTY STAMPER Democrat sports ed1tor

River Thursday at 1\tississippi Col– lege's A.E. Wood Coliseum to take the Region 23 championship and earn their first trip in school history to the NJCAA Division I women's national tournament at TYler. Texas. March 15-19. " I don't want to settle a score, I just wanted to win a game." Pace said. "And we won the game The scoreboard said we won the game. The referees and everybody said we won the game. "I felt like the first three times we played them we didn't play our best and we didn't tonight in the second half." ECCC, 25-6, will face either power– ful Central Arizona or Utah in the

Prior to last Thursday, Pearl River Community College's Lady Wildcats had won all the gold they could have on the basketball court. Polly Kirkland's team had beaten East Central twice 005-101 in dou– ble overtime and 85--82) for the South Division regular-season title. PRCC added a 78-76 win over ECCC for the South Division Thurnament title. Throw in a 79-64 whipping for the state championship and Sammy Pace's Lady Warriors had every reason to be getting an inferiority complex. That all changed when the Lady Warriors used a 66-62 win over Pearl

Vance (35) of Philadelphia a free throw against Pearl

r •und of the national tourna– next Tue:;day. .e Region 23 tit)e game, ECCC d out to a 12-4 lead and led by ...:has 14 <30-16) in the first half ·aking a 44-32lead into inter– on 1 · had a 51-40 advantage with ···maining when Pearl River's __n E laine Powell fouled out. :eady had 26 points at that a ter racking up 40 agamst. east the previous game. - han a minute later, PRCC's "-3.\ · •ta Willis got her fourth foul came out. Instead of rolling however. the Ladv Wildcats up scratching and got to 51-49with 11 minutes still left. .nk tl~at took our attention off t? were here to do," Pace said rl River's foul woes. "When ~>nt out. we stop~d playing. :: as thev were m there. we eatmg them up. It just totally ==zt!d the game, but Pearl Rl\·er's : ballteam with or \\ 1thout eo pie.'' up by Evelyn Nelson ea\e .. 65-59 advantage \\ lth 1 35 mmg and even a poor l,for-5 ~at the free-throw line in the ·o seconds wasn't enou!Zh o Pearl River to make a e– comeback. dn't think we played a \'en -""Cond half, scorin~ 22 pomts. ...~1d "But it was en0t1,2 Reed had 19 pomts .\ hile Carla Lenore added .a 10, :\lemory Hunter se'\ C was a dismal-1-<>f-22 at · stripe in the second ha

Memory Hunter (24) of Philadelphia looks for an open teammate in East Cen– tral's 66-62 win over Pearl River.