2001

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ECCC 62 EMCC 45 The Lady Warriors improved to 3-1 with the 17- point win over E.MCC, 0-4. . A 3-pointer from Tamekia Foley with 10:30 left in the first half put ECCC up 11-9 and the Lady Warriors never trailed after that. A 5-0 run by 6-foot-3 freshman center Belinda Pot– ter of Monroe, La., over a 49- sccond span in the final two minutes of the first half extended ECCC's advantage to 33-1 9 which the Lady War– riors took into halftime. Potter had 11 first half points with Nikki LaCour adding eight and Foley toss– ing in seven. "She's come along," ECCC coach Brad Hodge said of Potter. "She's got tools that we can't teach being 6-foot-3. Day by day, she's getting bet– ter. She's was hard to guard tonight. "Tamckia Foley was the player of the game. She gave us a spark in the first half when we needed it. She hit three of her first four shots and spread thetr zone out. When they went to man, that's how Potter got her points." EMCC got to within 37-22 on a three-point play by Mar– garet McClure with 16:11 left, but the Lady Lions did– n't get their next basket of the second half until 12:30 remained when Erica Ray connec~d on a 3-pointer to trim ECCC's lead to 41-27. The Lady Lions got no closer than 15 points the rest of the night. Potter led ECCC with 17 points. LaCour scored 12 with Foley adding 10. Ten Lady Warriors scored with a 6-of-18 showing at the free– throw line being the only big negative.

ECCC 71 CC64 The Warriors got their fir.-t w:in of the season with the o!>E'ven-point victory. ECCC led 32-30 at half– time behind 11 points from Winfred Craig and 10 from • Maurice;: English. : 'l'he Lions were led by ~ Ryan Rodriguez with 10 : point~ in the first half. Three baskets by James , Densen ga,·e the Warriors a : 38-34 lead with 17:30 to go. • • EMCC fought back to take · · a 46-44 lead with 13:26 · : remaming on a steal and ' layup by Dennis Dupree after a pair of 3-pointers from ReShard Alonza. The \Varriors reclaimed the lead with a 7-0 run over the ne.xt three minutes and would never trail again. A 3- pointer from Engli~h high– lighted the run. The Lions crept back to within 58-56 on a free throw ' from Charle, Braxton with 2:49 left, but didn't score again until just 49 second~;; remained when Raphael Edwards made the toecond of two free throw~. By then, the Warriors had built a 65-:}7 lead "We played a lot better tomght," ECCC first-year coach Bill Smith said. "We executed a lot bettet· than :.. what we have in the fir~t three games and I thought ' we played with a lot better eflort tonight. "We executed some things ~ that made a lot of difference · in the game. Maurice En~li~h came in and gave us a hft m the first half. He hit some big · buckets and got some big rebounds. ~Jason Richardson came ~ in a did a real good for a few minutes. '"We had a chance to fold

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