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East Central CC falls By JACK SHAW

Pearl River scored on their first three offensive drives of the game. The Wildcat offensive line, averag– ing 262 pounds, manhandled the Warnors as Pearl River gained 82 yards on 10 carries in the quarter. As East Central brought up run sup– port, quarterback Jerel Posey found easy deep targets against one-on– one coverage by the Warriors. After scoring on a 6 yard keeper to end the first Pearl River drive of the game, Posey found Michael Oatis for a 48 yard touchdown and Tim Pittman for a 42 yard touchdown for Pearl River's second and third scores of the game. In between, East Central mounted a seven play 68 yard drive capped off by the Kizziah to Livmg"ton connection. Marty Stojkovtc ran 4 yards for one first down and caught a 10 yard pass for a.-:ot!-e: to keep the drive alive. East Central fil"ally stopped the iver CC, 58-10

Pearl River Community Col– lege s high powered option offense ran over, around and through East Central Community College in a 58- 10 rout in Decatur Thursday night. Pearl River quarterback Jerel Posey, a 6, 190 pound sophomore from PeJI City, Ala. led the Wildcats through the air and the ground. Posey gained 81 yards on six rushes and netted 138 yards through the air on ~ passing. East Central had a good performance out of quarterback jake Kizz1ah. Kizziah completed 10- 6 passes for 122 yards including a 40 yard touchdown strike to Tim Liv– ingston off a well executed fake re– \'erse. Uvir:gston caught six passes on the :Ug!

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East Central's passing attack looked good at times as Warrior quarterbacks were 18-36 for 197 yards. However, broken plays, sacks and the lack of consistent running game continue to plague the War– riors. The Warriors were held to (·1) yards on 25 rushing plays. On de– fense, the Warriors showed good ef– fort but breakdowns in coverage and shaky tackling ·again allowed big plays and a lot of points. Pearl River amassed 484 yards of total of– fense, 346 coming on the ground on 56 carries. East Central hopes to bounce back as the Warriors host Northern District foe Ita~amba Community College from Fulton. The Warriors will take on the Itawamba Indians in the Homecoming game at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 7.

aff and marched 73 yards on nine ?lays ending with a 5 yard touch– down by Posey. Four plays later, Jarvis Lipscomb picked off a Kizziah ?CtSS and ran 38 yards for the score putting Pearl River up 34-10 Pearl River scored one more time in the quarter on a Posey 6 yard keeper; Posey had his hand in five of the Wildcat's six offensive touchdowns. East Central could only muster 14 yards of offense in the quarter. Freshman quarterback Lance Eichelberger looked sharp and ~howed a good arm in the fourth quarter. The Forest native con– nected on a 4-12 passes for 37 yards but could not mount a sustained drive. Pearl River rounded out the scoring for the game on a 10 yard touchdown run by fullbaci( Percy Daniels and a 27 yard field goal by Antonio Carillo. Carillo connected on 8-9 extra points for the Wildcats

Wildcats in the second quarter. The Warriors held Pearl River to 78 yards total offense 1n the quarter. Unfortunately, miscues stopped the Warnor offense as well. Late in the s cord quarter Eddie Conerly p ,.ked up a Warrior fumble on a reverse and ran 13 yards for a touchdown putting Pearl River up 28-7. East Central answered with a last minute scouting drive. The drive was aided by three Pearl River penalties and a 19 yard Kizziah to Ray Ivey pass. The drive stalled however when Kizziah overthrew Livingston in the endzone with nine seconds remaining. The Warriors had to settle for a 39 yard Peyton Weems field goal and went into the locker room trailing 28-10. Pearl River came out in the sec– ond half and immediately took the game away from East Central. The Wildcats took the second half kick-

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