1995

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Prince allies 33 points, llut By Jarrod McDaniel The Mend1an Star always plays hard , Coa ch Cooper has them well organized. ,

J<:ast Central indeed fought an uphill battle for mo:-.t 01 the first half. ru; the Warriors com– mitted 15 first-half turno\ ers and allowed the Bulldogs to run out to a 10-point halftime lead. However. ECCC came out with a 13-9 run to open the sec– ond half, which was capped by back-to-back tre) :- by Prince, and cut the lead to 49-43 with 13:10 to go. But Gulf Coa;;t wa... able to answer every Warrior run. stay– ing just far enough ahead to keep East Central at bay. "We lost the ... econd half," Gulf Coast head coach Bob Weathers said . ".Ea::;t Centr al

"From our standpoint, if we had made our free throws the game would have been over at the half." The Bulldogs improved to 9-8 overall and 3-3 in the South. East Central was able to pull within striking distance on at least five more occasions during the second half. but every time the Warriors would get close, the Bulldogs' Ira Newbill would take over The 6-foot-7 sophmore foward was held to three points in lhe first ha lf, but exploded in lhe second hal f, scoring 18 points

DECATUR- In the second half of Tuesday night's game against Gu lf Coast. East Central scored 47 points, hit 16 of 24 from the free throw line and got five three-pointers, from leading scorer Philip Prince. Yet the Warriors, trailing by 10 at halftime. weren't able to complete the comeback. falling 82-77 to drop to 7-11 overall and 0-6 in the South Division. "It's the story of our season," War rior coach Marty Cooper said. "It makf!s each game an uphill struggle."

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