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DECAT.Ug -.;tJ .. ,cQJr.~tion of the 105- plus d e . t;~(! t~ ' ·. ri\:ture and the heat applied ~y; the ~ ·~i~~iss~ppi Community College offense' pr&ved to be too much for homesta:illling East C~ntrru Community Col– lege Tuesday'aflernoQ\1. EMC9 ~l:{cpt, upr~Yrelent­

chances," MeDon nell said. "AfLer we settled down and started playing our ball control in the midfield we did all right." One key move McDonnell made was mov– ing freshman Rocky Cole from sweeper to for– ward late in the first half. "He provided a little spark for us and kind of gave us a little life out there," McDonnell said. "We are probably going to move him around like that all year." Cole scored on a nice header with Just 1:47 left in the half on a cross from Ryan Trues– dale to tie the game at 1-1. East Central had taken the l ead 13 minutes into the game when Gardito Ruiz had tucked a loose ball into the net as it bounced out of the goalie's grasp. The game didn't stay tied long, as EMCC scored on another header with 22 seconds left. This ti.me it was Jimmy Parker doing the honors, as he scored from 14 yards out on a nice posH from Aaron Smyser. DcHpito be in g out.shot 14-4 in the first hulf, l•~ast. C(•ntrol kept hanging in the game in tlw tlurly ~:~t.ngt•s of t.he second half and actually lit•d llw contest. ut 2-2 wh~n Michael Craig mud(' t1 n1ct• Hpin move to score with

less assuliJl.lorttth~~ait Cen– tral goal ns~ thoil,ions~~cored t h e l as t 1 -(our ;·goalsi:<>f the game to tn ke n . 6~~· win in men's j unhll· ~oll~ge sQccer "J .knc~v., ~~~~!\'-~~,?.· go.t to halftt.mc ~~e-.w~r.e. 'tn ,u httle ~ction. ' .. ~ >·J.

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troublo,'' b~ttlfG~llff.Jt.L ~o~ch , Kenne t h Thnm~,J!qn · .stu d~ "But o~i· ~1ii,$.t~.J!~.hJ (c;m' t ~omplnm, t)IJ:y.~lli~~U('F~'orc down." EM G~ c1~~~~)i~\i 1 ~~ lP.l ?onnell agreed. "We JUSt~l't Mis$i!Osij.?'pi;!~t!~lihot l~al'lt C'entral 27- 5 for t he 'guu'ic"'ttnu 1 onl,1 gMc up on(• Rhot. in the ~ccond halr. : ,• The Lion:-~, n~W 1-0 ~.G the year, led j ust 2- 1 in the half bt'ILaRpcp.tc9,. to be in cont.rol of t.he game. EMCO ha!f ieveral point-bl ank shots th at couldr('t. find the net. in the first. half. ' ,, <.Q<. "We should huye b('en further ahead, but we jus t didn' ~ ·.• take. Bflvantage of our

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------ David Smith beat him to t he ball and put the Lions ahead 3-2 with 28:27 to play. Smyser scored once and Cole twice more over the next 13 minut.es to give the win– ners their 6-21ead. "Tha t was a good enough first game,~ McDonnell said. ..We saw some things we need t.o work on, but from here on we wi 11 be kind of fine tuning it. and I think we are going to muke a good run at it." Einst. Central, now 0-2 on the RCuson, returns to action

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Soccer Continued from page 1D After East Central goalie Derek Dunn made big saves on prime EMCC scoring oppo.rtunities with 40 min– utes nnd 32:45 left i n t h e game, the damn finally broke open for the Lions. Smyser blasted a l aser shot from 18 yards out that banged off the cross bar and bounded away from Dunn in f r ont of the goal. EMCC 's

Saturday when the Warriors travel to Raymond to take on Hinds Community College at 7p.m. The Lions of EMCC play their first home match of the season on Saturday when Copiah-Lincoln visits Scooba for a 2 p.m. battle. The EMCC and Co-Lin women play a t 4 p.m. Ther e is no admission charged to attend the games. Austin Bishop is a staff writer for The Meridian Star. E·mail him at abishop@meridianstar.com.