1998

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ECCCends basketball season Regular season action came to a disappointing end for East Central Community College basketball teams who lost decisions Thursday, night to homestanding Copiah-Lin– coln. The Lady Warriors (17-7, 8-4) and Warriors (10-15, 2-10) are now preparing for South State Tourna– ment action scheduled at Pearl River Community College February 16-19. scorers were Herbert Montgomery of Lafayette, Louisiana, 16; Toronto Parker of Forest, 15; Desmond Reed of Carthage, six; Danielle Johnson, of Helena, Georgia, five; Ken Russell of Newton County, four; Brian Hillie of Lawrence, three; Ray Waddell of Philadelphia and Bobby Carter of Noxapater, two each. Co-Lin led 27-26 at halftime. gomery, 20; Venzen, 17; Johnson and Russell, eight each; Hillie and Reed, four each; Parker, three; and Wad– dell, one.

East Central led 40-34 at halftime. Coach Marty Cooper's Warriors began tournament competition by taking on Gulf Coast( 19-6, 8-4) on Monday. East Central took the win in a close contest 74-70. Leading scorers for EC were: Venzen, 23; Montgomery, 20; Hillie, 10; Johnson, six; Russell, five; Waddell and Over– street, three each; and Parker , two. The Warriors will meet the South– west( 19-6, 8-4) Co-Lin( 13-11, 4-8) victor at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Finals are set for 8 p.m. Thursday. The Lady Warriors, led by coach Sammy Pace., challenged Southwest (9-15, 4-8) on Tuesday. The winner will battle Co-Lin (19-5. 9-3) at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Finals are scheduled at 6 p.m. Thursday.

In games played February 9 in Decatur, the Lady Warriors clipped Jones 79-78 on Barrett's short jumper with 13 seconds remaining. Mapp led in scoring with 32 points, includ– ing five three-pointers. Barrett also had five three-pointers and 21 total points. Also scoring were Pinkston, seven; Floyd, six; Chapman; five; Brown, four; Carter, three; and Williams, one. The Lady Bobcats led 44-40 at halftime. ln the men's game, the Warriors fell 69-65 to the visiting Bobcats. ECCC pointmakers were Mont-

In th e Lady Warriors' 67-61 loss to the Co-Lin women, pointmakers were Wendy Mapp of Newton County High School, 14; Nicole Bar– rett of Morton, 12; Denise Chapman of Newton and Charissa Williams of Terrebonne, Louisiana, 10 each; Sharae Brown of Scott Central, six; Jamie Floyd of Smackover, Arkansas, four; Sonya Pinkston of Forest, three; and Tina Edwards of Vigor, Alabama, two. Co-Lin led 32-28 at halftime, Gilberto Venzen of Eastman, Georgia, scored 18 points to lead the Warriors in their 86-71 loss. Other

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