2001

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East

sweeps Southwest

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protest of the foul call. After a technical foul was called on Wallace, Copeland knocked down three free throws to put the Warriors in ----- control 55-47 with 4:19 remaining. The Warriors then canned 7-of-10 free throws in under two minutes to go up 62- 66 Southwest 47 while the Bears 56 were mired in a three– minute, eight-second scoring drought. After a Southwest ECCC men

played the way we wan t to play," ECCC coach J ay Bowen said. "We defended real well. Offensively, I thought we showed a lot of patience and we got it to the right people to score, plus we got it to the right guys going to the free-throw line. "I thought the difference in the game tonight was Joe Copeland. He did everything you want him t o do as a point guard. The first half, we came out kind of tenta– tive and he was the aggres– sive one. He knocked down some threes and he pl ayed like he needs to play. In t he second half, the other guys fed off of him and they - all in the first half- from Nicole Cox, 12 points and nine rebounds from Lori Cumberland, 10 points and six rebounds from Jessica Sanders, 10 points from Nikki Lacour, nine points apiece from Alberta Norman and Anna Udicova, and six points from Trelisa Eichel– berger. Sophia Reed had five steals and four points. La'Shonda Ford h ad si x rebounds. Southwest got 12 points from Brenda Alexander and 10 from Collette White. Marty Stamper is a sports writer for The Meridian Star. E-mail him at sports@themeridianstar.com. See Warriors, Page 3C

basket with 1:29 left, Kent Chamblee added a pair of fr ee throws with a minute left to keep the Warriors out of harm's way at 64-49. "I thought our guys came out the second half and Robert Green , and Daniel McGaffney. Southwest fell to 11-10 and 1-8. • ECCC women 102, Southwe st 6 1: The Lady Warriors - ranked 19th in last week's NJCAA women's poll - were looking for some– one to beat up on following Thur sday's 30-point loss at No. 6 Copiah-Lincoln, and Southwest got the dubious honor of playing the sacrifi– cial lamb. ECCC led 54-31 at half– time and led by lis much as 43 points in the second half. The Lady Warriors got 22 point s and seven rebounds from Margo Porter, 16 points

Warriors

tht :op of the league the road and at our W- jtb~ needed some– "' tD ~ve our guys some For example, the Warriors wins over Xorth Divi– n leader Hawamba and d place East Mississip- A1 iliougbt the big positive t nizht was with five min- u~ to go, we're up five or EIX 8.!ld we extend that lead where in the past we haven't extended the lead," Bowen ;::; othwest got 10 points - o Khyri Galmore and -even each from Drake , a:nfirlence:

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