1999

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Lady Warriors defeat Jones .and GulfCoast

East Central Communrt} Col– lege's Lad,· Warnors tmproved to 17-3 overall and i-2 10 South Divi– sion competition following .,.,·ins over Jon~~ and Gulf Coast in hoop achon last week. Ellake ~turray of Scott Central and Wendy ~fapp of 1'\ewton county tallied 15 points each and led the East Central women to an easy 95-5:1 wm over the homestJnding Lady Bobcats on January 28, and Tonya Moncnd of :\ewton pumped in 24 points to pace the Lady Warriors in thetr 77-71 victon OV<.r the visiting Lady Bulldogs January 25 in the Bra– keen-Wood gym. Other scorers in th~ joneb matchup were Tonya Moncrief, 13; Sonya Pinkston of Fort ~t, 10· Sharae Brown of Scott Central, Chanssa Williams of Ilou'ma, La., Krystal Courtney of Holden, La., and Quintina Edwards of Whistler, Ala.,eight points each, and LaShanta Lyles of Morton, Arletha Moncnef of New ton an d Felisha femplc of Also scoring in the win O"Vcr Gulf Coast were Pinkston, 12; Courtne), 11; Brown, nine; Murray, etght; Mapp, five; Wilhams. four; Temple and Lyles, two Nch. The Lady Warriors held ,, 39-35 advantage at the break. In men's actiorr, the Warrtors dropped to 8-12 and 1-8 follov.ing ewton County, two each. EC led 50-28 at halftime.

losses to Jones (66-57) and Gulf Coa:,t (51-47). Pointmakers in the Jones' contest were Ken Russell of newton County, 13· Lamond Bowie of Morton and Demando Mingo of Choctaw Cen– tral, 11 each; Otis Wallace of Mem– phis, nine; Keith Bell of Choctaw Central, seven; Ray Waddell of Philadelphia, four; and Courtney Jones of South Leake, two. The score was tied 23-23 at half· time Against Gulf Coast, EC socrers were Wallace, 12; Mingo, nine;. Bowie , eight; Bell, six; Russell and Waddell, five each; and Randy Tan– gle of Choctaw Central, two. The Warriors led 25-22 at half– time In games this week East Central hosted Southwest on Monday, February 1 and entertains Co-Lin on Thursday,February 8. The Warriors played the Mississippi College JUntor varsity squad on Tuesday, February 2, in the A.E Wood Colise– um on the Clinton Campus. Regular season action concludes the week of February 8 when both EC

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