1996

ECCC splits with Southwest By Will Price The Meridian Star DECATUR- East Central Community College split a pair of South Division basketball game:. against Southwest Miss is si ppi Community College Thursday night. The division leading Lady Warriors beat the Lady Bears 100-80, while the Warriors lost to the Bears, 78-69. The Lady Warriors improved to 13-5 overall, and 6-1 in division play, while the Warriors fell to 5-13, and 2-5. The Bears are now 9-9 and 3-4, while the Lady Bears dropped to 7-9 and 2-5. ECCC will next see action on Monday, when they travel to Co-Lin for a divisiQn contest. Southwest Mississippi scored firs t and then after Maurice Bowie tied it for the Warriors. the Bears scored the next seven points for a 9-2 lead. ECCC tied it again at 11-11, and the first half then saw eight lead changes, before the game wa, tied once more at 32-32. Three three-pointers and a two poin t basket do\\'n the :>tretch. gave the Bears a 43-34 advan– tage at the break. Midway of the second half, the Warriors pulled to within three, at 54-51, 56-53, 58-55, and 60-57, then the Bears went on an eight-point run. and the Warr urs could get no closer than five points the rest of the game. Southwest (78)- Jamie Adams 3, Bryan Brown 7, Rusty Chapman 14, Ronn1e Jackson 15, Keithen Campbell27. Clem Butler 2, Dernck Wilson 4, John Laird 1, Justin Adams 5. East Central (69)- Maurice Bowie 18, Maurice Jones 10 Damek Massey 2. 0 J McNichols 2, Mark Nance 2, Robert Eart Shephard 27, Jason Sm1th 2. Bobby Viverette 6 • East Central women 100, Southwe st 80: The Lady Bears tiCOred first in the game, but the Lady Warrior s' Pachasia Thompson, scored her only points of the night, to tie the game at 2-2. The lead then changed hands thr ee times, before the Lady Warriors took the lead for good at 8-7.

Paula Merritt/The Meridian Star EC's Mona Owens dibbles through traffic. ECCC had the I.ndy Bears doubled, with 6:41 left in the first half, when Sherrell Gullory hit a free throw. for a 30-15 lead. The Lady Warrior" led by as many as 24, and went into the dressing room leading 44-23. . Southwest outscored ECCC in the second half. 5/-56, but the Lad.\' Waniors hung on for the 20 point victory. · "'I thought we gave a real good effort, we hustled and had an ov~rall good ga me ," sai d Lady Warriors coach Sammy Pace. .. It was a good win for us." Southwest (80)- Lakesha Boddie 28, Tracy Boyd 2. Jennifer Jay 2. Lakisha Russ 7. Pa1ge Conerly 13 Aob1n 1-fall 8, Melissa Johns 15, Dawn Keller 5 East Central (1 00) - Jennifer Alexander 3, Mona Owens 14 Jenn1fer Musgrove 6. Melody Reed 49 Felicia Brantley 2, Pachas a Thompson 2. Olivia McDaniel 8. Kim Gentry 3, Sherrell Gullory 1 Staphanie Houston 12.

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