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recovered a fumble by Head and gave the ball back to the offense with the ball on their own 43 yard line. The East Central offense was not to be denied us they converted on their third consecutive fourth down situation when fullback Marty Stojvoich plowed through the line getting two yards for the first down to keep the drive alive. l<'reshman running back Steven Bradford found a hole in the Bear defense as he rambled for 19 yards giving East Central first and goal from the 1 yard line. On third and inches, tailback Frcdd10 May plunged for his second touchdown ofthe ballgame. Peyton Weems added the point after and gave the Warriors t he lead at 21-14 with 11:09 remain– ing in the fourth quarter. The Warrior d efen se forced yet anoth er turnover when Ashanti Webb recovered a Head fumble on the 50 yard line. East Central's defense came up big for the Warriors in the second half as they pitched a shutout and h eld Southwest to a mere 65 total yards in the half with only five first downs.

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line. Coats pulled a play out of his bag of tricks, run- ning a reverse to Calvin Williams who went virtu– ally untouched into the end zone. "We hadn't been getting a whole lot done up the middle and we knew that they would be blitzing with a lot of men on the line of 1:1crimmage," Coats said. "We took a chance and the oflcnsc executed the play perfectly. "Calvin has a lot of speed and we thought that if he could get around the end that he could score." After the two teams traded punts the Warrior defense did what thev did the cnlirl' second half. They came up with the big play us .Marcus Ward

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DECATUR- It was the same verse all over uv;ain us the Warriors of East Central did exactly \yhat they did last year - breaking an eight-game losing Hlrcak versus Southwest. L 1st year the Warriors s tarted ou t 0-8 and all hopes or a win looked bleak until they beat the Bears ol' Southwest Community College 38-20 m Summitt. IL has happened again this year as the Warriors got thmr first win of the yea1· with a 24-14 victory uvcr the Bears at Wariior field. "Unh.lsH you are a player or a coach you really can't understand what a great thrill this is," East Ctmlral head coach Willie Coats said. "I'm excited for the players They have worked hard and done qverything we have asked of them." 'l'hc~ Warriors held a 7-6 lead when the Bears mounted a first half-ending drive culminating in a 29-yurd lout:hdown strike from AI Head to Colby Walker with 15 seconds remaining. Stacey Mnck ran in for the two point conversion

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