2000

So Ea u Warriors' top ground game stalls in 24 - 7 2 div. loss A return trip to th(• .state layoffs will be delayed at least year for the East Central Warriors The nationally ranked Southwest Bears knocked offEC 24-12 Thursda} rught in Decatur and seemed a lavoff trip for themselves in he proces". Ea.:-t Central, 5-4 ove1·al l nd 2-3 ilD division com petitio~. needed ,..,in-. oYer the four teenth ranked Bears and Pearl River to keep their playoff hope~ alhe. Again-:t Southwest, the Wanwrs' Ftate lending running game was held to ju~t 80 yards. ~r below it..:; 270-yard aYerage The Warriors also .tdded JUSt 60 yards passing and finished

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w1th 011 otfensC', whilf' South\H.' I cumpilcd 231 rushing ym d and f)~ \ ;u ds psl fool· n ~ 0 lead 011 Hnul Bovd"' ll v:n d f1eld goal cm·lv iu tlw HPcond pPnod. gal't. UeuL1 al wollld Jatm g1·~,h 1tH onlv lt•,ul of the. conle::;l wtwn d1•len ., "( liuPman· ,Jon Gus111:111 Sl'oopt d up a Bem lumhJe <1llcl suned from eight VHrds out with six minutes left before hnJftinll' 'l'he PAT fniled which let1 J<:asi UPntrnl with only a fiE-ld goal l(•ad , 6-3. South we1·t regninNli he> lPad fin good 1om and-a-half min– utes lah-'1' when ,Jf'n•mv MvleR found pav dit t on a 1 :3-yord scampPr. Bovd'o;;; PAT giwP the HPars .t 10 I) ad\ aul.tgl' at half time. l Tlw BPm •xi enrl0d thei1 lt:.td l(l I7 (j ldtP J n thu lhu·tl on run.

Southwest lead early in the final stanza when Dontay Spillman t·aced through the Bear defense on an 81-yard puol return '!'he two-point conversion was stopped. leaving th e Bears with a l7-12lead. Southwest sealed t he win late in thE> contest on AJonza Ard's Lwo-yard run with 41 sec– onds to play. Boyd added h is final PAT to set the final score at 24-12. The EC rushing a ttack was led by Mitchell McKinnon , who had 53 yards on seven carries . Levi Duncan led Eas t Central's defense with five tackl es, five assists and one sack, while Quentin Bowens added five t ackles and five assists and J ermaine Crosby of South Leake finished with four tackles and six assists. The WruTiors close t he 2000 campaign by lr aveling to Pearl River CC on Thursday wit h kickoff slated for 7 p .m.

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