2002

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Wednesday. September 18, 2002

East Central fall s to B) Mart) ~ tamper . The first quarter saw b th punting contest a:. ·both ~he ~~,am~ stage a Tigers had onl 3 - vvarnors and first 1- y ' total yards apiece after the E\tG pons as ...nt DECATUR- The East C mty College \\ d' en~ra! Commu- Thur-.da) 1 - rn rs rop~ to ~-2 with ea~t MlS tsst;~. to the tger o:: North- .:> nunutes Twentv-::.ix of ECCC' d came on a pass fr • K s yar s Kentay Eiland. om evm Stephens to The contest \\as a d f of the · h e en5l\e ,tru,....,.le ~.,..,.. m~ t as orth t f = .......,"" total vard::. and ECCCeha... d UU5nl hed Wlth 2.09 : ·ortheast put togeth 9 . dn\'e to grab a 6 -0 lead i~rt~ 2-yard sconng The Warriors had the T' e sefco~d quarter. and-6 onl to . tgers acmg third-

"I· a o v 136 thought our defense bOw played pretty good mo.,t f th head coach "t . U 0 e game ECCC them get a f... err) nderwood said "We let ...won us and . them credit The ) ou ve got to give g ood drt"v 3. dy put together one rretty e an we penalty that aided it SOtth a phersona foul rest of the oints w . er t an that, the short field. p ere off a turnover on a "I h I'm n~t 0 a~~~!n~~o'}e:~nse ~la~ed hard and that. I just hate we em p aymg hard like end." came up on the short ed up and

personal toul. g~alt~~h~td for a dead ball up with TJ Sea "' evenson hooked ECCC 35. ·on thf~~~~~- 2 7-yard gain to the Kelley ran a r goal at the 7, Chris touchdown w~~her6~e37aroun~ l~ft end for the remammg in th f' e extra pomt. to 70 for the War~~heast had 114 total yards ECCC threateneJst. as Ronald Smith fiel~ s~art t~e sec~nd half returned it to the 1i ers ~ 2 a s ort k1ck and yard and JeremiahgGillett Three plays lost a end zone on fourth d e punted mto the h lf · a . A bad snap spoiled th At halftime N . e ust

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the extra point to cut the deficit to 14-7 with 8:16 remaihing. Hal Kerstetter was just short on a 44-yard field goal attempt for Northeast with 5:22 left. Stephens suffered an interception by Tyus Jackson to end the Warriors' next drive and a pick by Eric Holcombe on ECCCs final possession. In between, Jed Wright recov– ered a Tiger fumble at the Northeast 44 for the Warriors. Both teams punted nine times. ECCC had only seven first downs for the game. "We had several starters hurt on offense and a:tlother got hurt tonight," Underwood said ...'We were inconsistent. We couldn't move the ball and if you can' t score points, you can' t win. Offensively, we've just got to get better." ECCC opens South Division play at Pearl RiH•r on Thursday. Northeast beat Pearl River 13-6 in the opening week.

"'"'"'""'"'n punted the Warriors te m the third quarter and a ate\ entuallv rolled out a safety put ~ortheast up the period. turned the free kick to the unable to ad,·ance on the e'er, put the Tigers back he picked off a Stephens tt 12 'ards to the ECCC 28. bled up the middle from th 10:05left in the game to p 14-0. The PAT was wide ' rd kickoff return by Pete mor-. co,·ered 46 yards and uchdown of the night. Back– erference and defensive gave the Warriors their r-.t down' of the game and rd touchdo"' n tO"S from 1 nd Tra\ ares O::..le) k1cked

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