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nee. twice, shame on u ... three times not ~onna happen. - The East Central Com– munity College Lady War– riors extracted their revenge for a pair of big– time blowouts administered by the Lady Wolves of Copi– ah-Lincoln at the right time... in the semifinals of the Region 23 Tournament at Mississippi College's A.E. Wood Coliseum Wednesday night. The Lady Warrior s outscored nationally-ranked and previously once-beaten Co-Lin 74-71 to advance to tonight's 6 p.m. champi- Region 23 Continued from page 1C ket from Denise Catchings with 36.6 seconds left, the Lady Warriors ran the clock down to 9.9 seconds when Cox was fouled by Livavdis. Cox made both free throws to put ECCC up 74-71. "'f the game is on the line. I want ~icole up there," Pace said. Porter then forced Smith to use nearly all of the r emaining time getting the ball up the floor befo-e Smith threw up an airl-t 11 that Cox cradled as t; e ran

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If you pie ed Erct c.,.n– tral to be in the final-.. you can ·tart your own p:-.ychic hotline. After all, Co-Lin ripped ECCC 81-58 on Jan. 8 at Decatur and showed that was no fluke with a 97- 67 pounding on Feb. 1 in Wesson. But the Lady Warriors hung with the Lady Wolves for the first half, then outscored them 41-36 over the second 20 minutes for the v.-in. ~either team led by more than six points throughout out. "I don't think we did any– thing any drlferent except we played.~ Pace said. "Co-Lin's an excellent ballclub, there's no doubt and Co-Lin coach) Gwyn Young. I just think the wodc : him as a coach. He·~ a creat coach and doe~ a "":l?er JOb but we just playerl ro=.ti;"bt." Cax red EGCC. ?l-5 with ~3 peru:-... 16 of which came .n the d half. Pc::t=-- red - had 1

mt.~ · n The Lady Wol"e... led 35-33 at halftime. ~largo Porter ued the game at 48 -48 with a 3- pointer with 14:26 to play. Another 3 by Nicole Cox gave the Lady Warriors a 51-50 lead with 13:15 left. The 3-point shot would be an ally of the Lady War– riors as they hit six in the second half and nine for the game. Co-Lin went up 55-52 when Rusti Smith hit a bas· ket as the shot clock ran out with 11:09 to go, but Cox 2, got 23 points from Livavdis, 20 from Christy Brown, and 10 from Smith. "We played two of our bet– ter games against them," Co– Lin coach Gwyn Young said of the regular-season con– tests. "' think it was our inabili– t\• to make some shots we had on the inside and their defense was really good tonight and they went to the boards ,hard. They did some things pretty good and bit ,nme ~hots from the ou~ide and they didn't do that the fir·t two rime~. '"'They ju... o, pia TI ~r.

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Co-Lin battled back eYen at 69-69 with 2:37 left on a pair of baskets from Mindy Livavdis. Cox broke the stalemate with her fifth 3 with 1:15 showing to give the Lady Warrion; a 72-69lead. After Co-Lin got to with– in i2-71 on a putback bas- See ECCC, Page 3C from the outside to start the second half that pulled us on out there. And on the inside, they were working. I thought Norman really played well." EC and Northwest met on Nov. 28 at Senatobia with the Lady Rangers taking a 71-70 win. ~we're going to see the press (tonight),M Pace said, ~but we're looking forwnid to it. "I think "e need to t.ay within our game and plaJ good sohd d fense And e need t • p e