2002

ECC drops • onetn overtime By Marty Stamper staff wr ter DECATLR - If the East Central Community College Warriors would haw played the first seven minutes anywhere near the way they did the final 38, they would have had little trouble beating Southwest Mis– sissippi Community College Thursday. Southwest jumped out to a 22-5 lead over the first seven minutes of the game before having to go to overtime to take an 82-80 victory. '"That's been our "tory," ECCC coach Bill C)mith said. "We'll play 30 minutes out of the 40 and we're getting beat two and three at the buJ:Zer." ECCC fell to 4-8 overall and 0-3 in the MACJC South Divi– sion. Southwest improved to 11- 2 overall and 2-1 in the division. Southwest won the women's game 64-55 after trailing by nine at halftime. The ECCC men got to within 36-26 with 3:31 remaining in the first half only to go into half– time with a 44-29 deficit. The Warriors scored nine– of-11 points to close to within 52-50 with 11 minutes to play on a ba~ket from James Dens n.

ON THE MOVE ECCC's James Denson keeps his guard up against SMCC's Sam Jotmsoo JUCO HOOPS falling apart in the second half to lose their:fourth-consecutive

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