2002

WEEK OF ~l~~ J..[ .20TfL I

ECHoops off and running

03 campa1gn, as they fell 82-79 to the Delta "omen. Fre~hman Lenore Gray of Newton led EC "1th 14 points. Also scoring were Ebone'e Leverette of Forest and Rita Birden of St. Fredrick High School 1.:1 \tonroe, La., 13 each; Klmyatta \ h erctte. II, of Lake; Tamekia Foley, - "'c of '\ewton County; Monique 0\erstn:e of South Leake and Britney Burls o Scott Central, seven each; Pat ~ \lcKee, three, of Forest; and Melinda Ben. two, of Choctaw Central. EC led 45-42 at halftime. In game scheduled this week, EC teams tra\ el to Itawamba on Monday, ~o,ember 4, and entertam Shelton Swe (Ala) Thursday (6 and 8 p.m.) and Ea:.t Mbsisstppi on Saturday (1 and 3 p.m) at the Brackeen-Wood Physical EJ uon Building. The \\arriors and Lady Warrior will be gue:.ts of Holmes Community College on Monday, November II.

Sophomore forward Corey Homsb] blistered the backboards for 40 point:. and led East Central Commum~ College to a season-opening 85-82 overtime thriller over Mississippi Delta Community College Friday night m Moorhead. ln addition to Hornsby, a product of lstrouma High School in Baton Rouge La., other EC point makers ~ere Demario Qualls, 14~ -oT Newton; Brandon Mason, 12, of North Dale High School in Baton Rouge; Jamaal Martin, eight, of Northeast Lauderdale; Donzell Crenshaw, five, of Ridgewa~ Htgb in Memphis, Tenn.; Reggie Carter four, of University Christian; Ke' in Bobbitt, three, of Lake; and \\ tl Florence, two, ofNorth Delta Academ) . The nondivision match-up was deadlocked at 75-75 at the end of regu– lation. EC led 35-31 at the break. EC's Lady Warriors were not as for– tunate in their first contest of the 2002-

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