2003

job of getting them prepart: I. It rests in my hands. They d· ln't lose the game, I did." Foley led ECCC (8-5. :.;-1) with 18 points. Kimyatta Viverette scored 13, Willis had 12, Rita Birden 10, and Britney Burks seven. Southwest (10-3, 2-1) got 24 points from Downing, 15 from Mikela Martin, and nine from Tara Abdul-Hadi.

ECCC's final lead (61-60) with 4:44 left. The Lady Warriors were unable to take advantage of a steal by Willis, then missed three shots on their next pos– session as Southwest pulled out to a 66-61lead with 2:08 left. The Lady Bears upped their lead to 71-63 with 32 seconds showing as they hit 5-of-6 free throws. "Right now, we're just not very efficient offensively," ECCC head coach Brad Hodge

said. "We've had some shooting woes, but that's part of the game. That's going to happen from time to time, especially against good teams and they're a good defensive team. When you do that, you've got to find some way to make up for that defensively and we just haven't been able to get the stops when we've needed to. "The offense will eventually come. Part of that is m:,. respon– sibility. I've got to do a better

Southwest led by as many as 10 (51-41) with 13:44 remaining only to have ECCC puU even at 57-57 on a basket by Tamekia Foley with 8:18 to go. At the time, Southwest had been called for 10 fouls to only three for ECCC. However, the Lady Bears got ~ 3-pointer from Sabrina Ard with six minutes showing for a 60-58lead. Elyse Willis hit a trey for