2002

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league·stop defen'J\ e umt nl o ~ .::: 62 2 points per contest East Central' \\ amors 4-5 overall and 0-1 111 kague pia) for first-yea• head mcmor Htll~ Smith, posted a 68-67 cliff-hanger 0\er I tawamba mthl.! same EC C(' I ouma– ment. Coach Sm11h also rcallZI~S his team faces an uplull battle agamstthe Indians, who are 7 1 overall under former HCCC head coach l\1m1; Coo- per. "It w11l obviously be much harder to beat Ita\\ amba on the1r own coun. It w1ll be our fir~t game after the break and \\e ''ill defimtely face a tough challenge. However. l knO\\ we will play hard and put forth om best effon," Coach Sm1tl1 ~aid. Regardmg h1s team· s 4-5 record, Snuth eonmtented. "Although I am not happ) with our won-loss record, I ampleased w11h the m1provements '' e ha\ e made smce our first game. Hopefully we can keep gettmg better as the season con– tinues. We have 13 games rcmammg

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sure of bemg the defendmg regJOn ch2.mp on:., etc.- this team has done a fanrarue" JOb of purung themselves mto a good posmon to start the ne\\ }ear Ho"ever. you are only as good as )OUT next game. What has hap– pened thu:. far will not put us in the tate tournament or m the region tour– nament. \\"tth dtvision play picking up th1s semester and us going on the road for I\\ o tough non-division games, we could easily be sitt::;g at .5('£'1 at the stan of February- and playing good basketball. The schedule gets very dtfficult th1s :.emester, the South Di– ' tston b so strong thts year with Ca– Lm undefeated. Pearl Ri\'er off to a ood::otart Southwest and GulfCoast - both are \ef) talented. and Jones is \\ell coached and plays extremely hard. There '' 111 ne,·er be a night we n pia~ poorl::r and still have a chance to \\'ln. but hopefully this team is pre– pared ~ r the challenge. Our sopho– more leaders will have to continue to lead th1s team as they have so far this sea~on," Hodge commented. Sophomore Nikki LaCour of ~atchitoches, La., leads the Lady Warrior offensive attack by averag– mg 17.4 points per game. She tallied a career-h1gh 42 points during an 81-7 1 thumpmg of visiting Gulf Coast on ~o\ember19. Other top scorers are sopho– more Chri:.tma FordofEnterpnse, who ts 3\ eragmg I0.6 pomts and seven rebounds. and fre~hman Belinda t · l– terofMonroe, L:l Pon~ 1s a,·eraging 10 1 pomts and ~Jx rebounds per con– te t and has three ~locked shots The EC "omen sport the

\ege ba~ketball teams\\ be gumun, for aS\\ eep oflta ~'llmh3 Comm rut) Colle6e \\hen 2 2c mpem on ,ets– undeP\ a~ Thur d mght on the Fulton c:unp TbcL D 'ts on acuon under fir:.t-)ear bead coach Brad Hodge. ed .... ed the Lad lruhans.59-5 in the £CCC lm Ut na on ovem– ~-~r 20 Coach Hod.• sad th Lad) Warnors ,,,n h:l\ -e a tou.:-h asst'!lllll{'nt defeaung me 6- • > lndJans a sec–

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