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a ked Jones em it was very sl im," Underwood ·The playoff picture is very far– d for us , but we've still got an lot to play for. We still can have a :mg- season if we can get it turned and going in t he right way. e've got sophomores that are to get scholarships and there's a "llay for t here. .d then just the pure pride and ~ter factor. I feel like we do have ride and char acter or we wouldn't fought as hard as we have in the we've lost. ·e got down 14-0 at Co-Lin and have thrown the towel in but we t We came back and got ahead 10 c:. Our kids have a lot of pride and they a lot of character and t here's been tin them. e bottom line with the playoffs is t in our hands any more. All we o is take it game by game and see happens. Jones has a 15-game winning streak an 1s t he defending state champion, e've got a tall task , but what a great rtunity in a year with as many rating losses as we've had to have a like that comi ng in to have a ch ce to beat. It cou ld make up for a lot of frus tration that we've had."

Warriors hos By Marty Stamper EMG sports ass stant When oppor tunity knock:::o, it'..: not good to let it pass as it' may not knock again. In a fru strating year thus far, the East Central Community College War– riors have a ch ance to make a little noise Thursday nigh t when they host the J ones Bobcats. J ones, 5-0, is ranked No. 3 in the nation. ECCC fell to 1-4 with last week's 34- 31 loss at Copiah-Lincoln . I t was a game in wh ich the Warriors rallied from a 14-0 deficit to take a 31-21 lead with only 4:16 remaining. The Wolves scored, then recovered a kickoff at the ECCC 20 and scor ed again to puU off the amazing comeback. "Being up 10 points wit h four min– utes to go, you should win the football game," ECCC head coach Terry Under – wood said. "There's no question about that. Th ey stripped the ball from the back to set up one touchdown. Then they sky-kicked it and we had four guys around t he ball and they had one and he won out on the figh t for the ball that gave them the go-ahead touchdown . . "The bottom line was we just didn't close the deal and take care of busi– ness. We just didn't do what we had to do, but we've got to forget a bout it and

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