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I LOCAL SPORTS Newton girls beat West for ECCC title By Marty Stamper/The Meridian Star Dec 2 2001

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~ECATUR - It didn't take Newton first-year coach Crandal Porter 019 w make his mark on the Lady Tigers ' basketball prog ram. - ne ewton girls defeated West Lauderdale 60-56 to capture the Eas• Central Community College Central Mississippi Classic cnamOionsht p Saturday night.

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Tne g1r s have been working hard and believe in what I tell them," sa a Porter who was named The Meridian Star's Boys' Area Coach c' t"e Year last season. "It's starting to pay off." A":er a '6-16 te through one quarter, tournament MVP Lenore Gray scored r::o baskets tn the final minute of the first half to send Newton 110 " a '\ .me N :h a 26-22 advantage .

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e:.ror eo <1 2-40 at the end of three quarters after being up by as Mucn as • • 37 -26) wtth 4 33 left tn the third period.

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IJ\.4est tt"len suffered a four -mtnute. 22-second drought to open the fourth quarter as Newton extended its lead to 49-40. It was good to have that lead ," Porter said of the game's final mmutes I told our g1rls in the huddle that they were going to make that run at us They weren't going to roll over and lie down." Patty Monroe snapped the dry spell with a 3-pointer with 3:38 to go to pull West to within 49-43.

The Lady Tigers turned to the free-throw line over the final2:1 9, making 9-of-14 attempts.

West battled back to 56 -54 with 31 seconds showing after a 3-pointer each from Cierra Jennings and Kristina Gardner, along with a conventional three-point play from Gardner. Tonya Jordan hit one free shot with 25 seconds left for a th ree-point lead. Kotreece Bender added one freebie eight seconds later and Twila Clayton hit two with 10 seconds left to seal the win.

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