2002

WEEK OF Ctl ~f,QO&

I LOCAL SPORTS Warriors host nationally rar ed Jones By Marty Stamper I EMG s:x>~ ass Sta": Oct. 9, 2002 When opportunity knoc··s ~ s roo: gooc ~o e· • :.ass as : may not knock again . In a frustrating year tht..s 'a· :-e =as~ ee~::a Cc..... -~r. t} College Warriors have a charce ~o -a e a -:.a --~sa-- _;-s.:a~ ., ghi vhen they host the Jones aoxc:~ .c es 5--{; , <:- · a:::· o. 3 in me nation. ECCC fell to 1-4 v m as: .. ee · s 3-!-3i Joss a: Coo al"!-:....rco n It was a game in which tne V\a-rors ra ec ·~,.,a ~.!-0 ce'"o< to ra-

ECCC has to win out to have any shot at postseason play.

"I've told our players that we are not out of the playoffs mathematically, but I told them it was very slim," Underwood said. "The playoff picture is very far-fetched for us, but we've still got an awful lot to play for. We still can have a winning season if we can get it turned around and going in the right way.

"We've got sophomores that are trying to get scholarships and there's a lot to play for there.

"And then just the pure pride and character factor. I feel like we do

have good pride and charact~r or we wouldn't have fought as hard as we have in the gaf"''es '- 9 -..e ost "We got down 14-0 at Co-Lin and could have t~rown the towel in but we didn't. We came back and got ahead 10 pomts. "Our kids have a lot of pride and they have a lot of character and there's been no quit tn them. . "The bottom line with the playoffs is it's n~ in our :~n::p~~~~ore . All we can do is take it game by game an see w . . t k and is the defending state "Jones_has a 15-~ame ~m;~~~a~~e~ut what a great opportunity in a champton , so we ve go a. a ' as we've had to have a team year with as many frustrating lhosses to beat It could make up for a like that coming in to have a c ance . lot of frustration that we've had."

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