2002

1 ne va::;1t10g Hears pulled back out to a 64-52 advantage on a basket by Brent Butler with 7:37 "howing in regula– tion. But the Warriors "taged another comeback and got to within 72-69 with 1:43 on the second hall clock when Corey Hornsby went 5-of-5 at the free– throw line over a 31-second span. Two free throws by Brandon Griffin put Southwest up by four (74-70) with l :Olleft. but Hornsby made two baskets in the final 56 se<.·onds to force overtime at 74-74. His tying basket came on a 10-foot base– line floater with 8.1 seconds eft. Southwest scored the first four points in overtime only to have ECCC pull even at 78-78 on a pair of free throws by Kevin Bobbitt with 2:12 to go. Griffin's basket with 1:53 showing gave the Bears an 80- 78lead, but Denson evened the contest with a jumper 20 sec– onds later. A lay-in by Wesley Haynes with 1:07 remaining turned out to be the game-winning points. Sam Johnson came up with a

loose ball for SoutHwest omy to have his team turn the ball over on a shot-clock violation with 10.1 seconds still to be played. The Warriors got the ball to Hornsby, who tallied 28 second– half points, but his shot at a game-winning 3-pointer rimmed out as time expired. "I was real proud of the way the guys fought back," Smith said. ''We had chances to win at the end, it just didn't go in. The kids played hard." Hornsby finished the night with 36 points. He was 13-of-14 at the free-throw line. ECCC also got 12 points from Denson, 10 from Winfred Craig, and six from Demario Qualls. Griffin led Southwest with 20 points. Johnson scored 14, Haynes and Willie Depron both had 11, and Butler tossed in nine. ECCC travels to Ellisville to take on Jones on Tuesday. Southwest women 64 ecce 55 The Lady Warriors carried a 29-20 lead into halftime before

T-1. "We had nine made field goals in the 'econd half. ft ECCC coach Brad Hodg-e ~id of his team's ~econd half scoring woes. "The bottom line is we've got to make shots and make free throws. They did everything else we asked them to. I can't fault them for their effort. They played hard. Even with a minute to go and down four, we still felt like we had a chance. We've just got to con– vert." It took Southwest less than five minutes in the second half to pull even at 32-32. "We threw it away four times in a row," Hodge said. "'We had made some changes defen– sively, but that had nothing to do with our offense." A 3-pointer by Nikki LaCour gave ECCC a 35-32 lead with 14:52left before the Lady Bears eased out to a 43-40 lead at the 11:34 mark. Lori Cumberland's 3-pointer gave ECCC a 45-43 lead with 10:03 to go and a basket by LaCour made it 47-43 with 9:37 left. Southwest responded by scoring 13 of the next 18 points

anon wnn .>.w rema uthwe~t l!Ot two free from ·_:;_ ~ ~for a at the ~ • ::;o~k. £((. c i. ~ .o Within- 54 a ba;ske~ o. ~Cour "' !h left before" the comebac failed. ··we , in the second "We gave up 44 po we're not going to be able win that way." LaCour led ECCC ( ·5 overall, 1-2 ~outh) v.i h 17 points. Christina Ford ' cored 11 and Tamekia Foley had seven. The Lady Warnors are do rn to 10 players for the remainder of the year. ''We've.got 10 in uniform and that's who we're going to lini h with,.. Hodge said Downing led Southwe...t (9-3. 2-1) with 22 points "Once ,he gets to feeling it ou're in trouble," Hodge said of the 6- foot freshman. ··~he', prob one of the begt I've seen ..;ince I've been here." Traci Forrest and l\atasha Booth added nine apiece.