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• ""orne felt it was their d , tn.} from the start of the -000-2001 ...eal'on. "At the beginning of the ...ea ...on, but especially after \\e went through two weeks of hard practice after we lost to Hinds," said Lori Cumber· land. freshman guard from Leake Academy. • "I believed that we could win the region tournament ever since the end of my freshman year." said sopho– more Sasha Lilly. ''After tak– ing a devastating loss to Itawamba in the first rouna last year, I made up my mind that if given another shot at.

sa1d li·e:-;hman guard Bernice Hannah of Louisville> High School. • ''When I met all of mv 1-eammate:s and we started t.Q practice together,' said fresh– man forward La'Shonda F< rd from Forest. • "During our fir!'lt ft "' p1·acticcs, ·· said sophon ~'76, forward Alberta Norm

t of the Tourna– ~ that if another could win e got our dl:anc::IE' m the region rnament and -a1d Sophia R ed freshman guard from Forest. • "After we Io... t m the first round of South State and had those 15

the title, I would take it to the house and that is what we did." • "I believed all along that we could do anything if we set our mind to it," said Trelisa Eichelberger, freshman forward/ center from Noxapa– ter. • "I felt the whole

scored 100 pointR said Danyell Hudson, freshman student assistant from NO:Xa pater. (That hap– pened in the "cason opener, a 100-62 blowout uf lhen~ o. 14 Bishop State. • ~The fir~t :-;ccond and third t1mc;; \\(:'scored 100

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points " Qaid Tiffany Chancellor, fre:;hman Stu– dent a:;sistant from Entm·– prise ECCC also clocked Coahoma 102-44 and South– west 102-61.) • "The fir,_t game of the season," said freshman stati:::tician .Jennifer Pace of Decatur. Marty Stamper rs a sports writer for The Meridian Star. E·marl hrm at• mstamper@ lhemeridianstar.com.

... of practice. That game ... a wake-up call.'' said - ca ~anders, sophomore • I believed that we could w n the region tournamen i before it even started," said phomore guard Nicole Cox from Lake. "\Ve can beat any team if we play hard, give 110 percent. and play as a team." guard from Edinburg.

(region) tournament that we could win,'' ~aid freshman guard Nikki Lacour of Natchitoches, La. "All we had to do was play." • "All year," said Anna Udicova. sophomore center from Presov, Slovakia. • "I always believed in us because we're a team of con– fidence. "We never, evl•r give up,"

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