2002

East Central takes two from Holmes

By Marty Stamper EMG sports ass1stant DECATUR - A pair of wins over the last two days has gotten the East Central Community College Warriors over .500. A 76·63 win over Holmes Tuesday night, along with an 82-69 victory over Itawamba on Monday, has the Warriors at 5-4 heading into Thanksgiving. "We're starting to play pretty good together," ECCC head coach Bill Smith said. "We had contributions from everybody on the floor tonight. "We challenged them. Holmes is suppo..,ed to be the No. l team in the North (Division) and we were able to hold them in the first half. The first five minutes of the second half we turned it up a notch and got a lead and were able to hold on down the stretch." The Warriors led 17-5 nine minutes into the game, but Holmes, 6-3, went on a late 8· 0 run to take a 32-30 lead into the brenk. A 9~ run put El' t;<.; up 44-34 "ith 16:09 left. Freshman De rnond Jone had tnt d u ring that stretc rio ua s g c-t 57-41 advantage with 10:13 remain ing nnd tlefcnding MACJC sta cha mpion Holme-: could get no closer than 10 points the rest of the rame. Corey Horn.-by led the ;\'arrior '"ith 20 point-.. Donzel Cren<:ha" scored 15, Quail-: had 13, Jones had 12, Brandon Ma on ...cored nine a'ld .Jamaal Mnrtin added

second:., Foley made all four of her free throw attempts and had a pair of defensive rebounds as the Lady War– riors stretched back out to a 65-57 lead with only 50 sec– onds to go. "Tamekia has struggled at times, but tonight she had a real good game," ECCC head coach Brad Hodge said. "She showed up and gave us good leadership and made some big shots early." ECCC was clinging to a 23-21 lead before scoring the next 15 points to take a 38·26 lead into halftime. "We were struggling trying to get the ball down the floor at times and letting them attack us," Hodge said. "'We changed our defen:o;e just before halftime and really got after them and stretched it out." Foley led ECCC with 19 points. RitaBirden scored 17 Kimyatta Viverette had 14: and Britney Burks had eight. Jones men 79 ltawamba 70 The Be c.. L, .t-•<~~ea our players in double figures and had two more with ni ne points in beating defending P ~ n 23- C:l tawam a. Timothy Broomfield hnd 14 point:; and nine rebound for JCJC. Lee Kirkpatrick had 14 points and stx rebound.-. Marvin McDonald had 12 points, John Gray had 11. and. farcus Johnson and Lafa)ette Xelson both had nine.

ltawamba women 91 Jone~ 62 Jones was only down 46- 38 at halftime, but the Lady Indians held a 45-24 advan– tage over the final 20 mm– utes to win going away. ICC was hot from 3-point range, maktng 10-of-25 tries to hold a 30-3 scoring advan. tage over JCJC from long dis· tance. The Lady Indians also had a 34-8 scoring advantage on points off turnovers. ICC got 24 points and seven rebounds from Tiff.-·my Garth.

ECCC women

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Holmes 60 Th~ Lady Warriors have only two sophomores on their roster, but ~ccond-ycar player T~~ekia Fol~y stepped up btg 10 the clmnng minutes as ECCC improved to 6-3. ECCC led 38-36 at half· time and by as many as 16 points in the second half before Holmes whittled its deficit to 60-57 with 2:20 remaining. Over the next 90

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