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By Amy Hedrick Robertson The Mend1an Star DECATUR - It may not have been pretty. but when a win puts your team in a three– wav tie for fir,t looks don 't count for much. With a 6o-49 win over t he Pearl River Community College Lady Wildcat., Thur..day night the Ea:.t Central Community College Lady Warrior:. are now in a tie with Copiah Li ncoln Community Colle!!e and Jones Junior College for the top con– ference spot. The Lady Warriors are now 5-2 in the conference, while Pearl River drop:. to 3-4. Overall the Ladv \Varriors are 13-6. Pearl Riveri.. 6-10. · "I didn't think "e played that well," ECCC bead coach Sammy Pace said. "'If you win, that ' s what count'. Thi keeps us in the thick of thing- .. The Ladv Warnor' dominat– ed the first ·halfofplay,jumping out to a 32-21 lead at the half, despite a somewhat lackluster offensive output. "We got off to a good star t and then 4aned making mis– take:.," Pace smd ''We worked bard, but offeiEhel\' we re too predictable. I thought our defen'e "a.s pretty dang good, though. Any ume you can hold a team to 49 point-'- you're playing pretty f!ood defen:,a.• The Lady Warnors Nicole Cox had the hot hand, opening up the game mth a thrt:e point– er within the fir-t 30 -.econds of the game. Cox led the team with 19 pomt Fne mmut es later Cox htt another three-

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commit rour tu rnovers within the same time frame. And as Pearl River continued to sputter offensively, the Lady Warriors broke into a good transition game t urning several defen– sive rebounds by Ne\\'ton 's Tonya Moncrief into points on the other end of the floor. Moncrief also scored 14 points in the game Continuing to p r ess ure the Lady Wildcats on defense the Lady Warriors took ad,·antage of every opportunity keeping PRCC at bay with a 20 point lead through– out much ofthe final period. Nicole Hearns was the only offens ive

spark for the Lady Wildcats in the seconc half, scoring 8 of her team leading 1~ points. Freshman Sasha Lilly was the thirc ECCC p l ayer in double figures with 1! points. While his team has obvious!~ imprO\~ since their six point lo:,:. to Pearl Rtver ear lier in the season, Pace said he is looki~ for more. With only one ,..opbomore on t.lii 11 member team. Pace ;;aid the team ncec to mature. ~we're going to have to mature m tlic next few weeks," Pace :.md.

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