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- E~CC Warriors have good week Nationall) Ranked 35-23 advantage at half- for an 82-79 decision over ECCC\\'omen time. Coach Billy Smith's the MCC men. The War- Trounce outhwest; Warriors were not as for- riors are now 9-12 over- Warriors Fall tunate, falling 89-64 to the all. Freshman Kotreece The nationally ranked East visiting Bears. Jammal Bender of Newton Central Community Col- Martin of Northeast Lau- pumped in 21 points to lege women's basketball derdale had 13 points to lead the Lady Warriors team improved to 19-2 lead East Central, which who defeated MCC for overall and 9-1 in South fell to 8-12 and 3-7. Also the' second time this sea– Division action following scoring were Desmond son. Also scoring were Thursday night 's 81-63 Jones ofNeshoba Central Lenore Gray of Newton, blowout of the Southwest 12; AI Willis of Newto~ 16; Rita Birden, a product Miss issippi Community County,nine; NeiiTadlock, of St. Fredrick H igh College Lady Bears in the of Lake, eight ; Tellas Sc~ool in Monroe, La., Brackeen-Wood Physical Burnside of Philadelphia, Kristin Chaney ofNewton Education Building. Tawon Walker of County and Monique Lenore Gray of Newton Neshoba Central a nd Overstreet of South pumped in 23 points to Stephen Dyess of North- Leake, nine each; India lead the Lady Warriors, east Lauderdale, five Backstrom of Neshoba who are ranked seven- each; Dwayne Hughes of Central, eight; Kimyatta teenth in the latest NJCAA Sebastopol and Ryan Viverette of Lake, six; poll. Also scoring were Hudson ofLouisville, two R()xana Rogers of Lake, Monique Overstreet of each; and Lorenzo White five; and Ebone 'e South Leake, nine; Kristin of Quitman, one. Nic Leverette of Forest and Chaney of Newton Gamb le of Tylertown Mira nda Rosar of : County, Kotreece Bender poured in 19 points to lead Neshoba -Central, four · ofNewton and Rita Birden the Bears, who improved each. EC led 45-32 at half– of St. Fredrick High to 8-12 and 5-5. South- time. The Lady Warriors School in Monroe, La., west led 30-24 at the cruised to a 78-60 thump- eight each; Ebone'e break. ingofMCCon Januaryl5 Leverette of Forest five· ECCC Teams Sweep in the Brackeen-Wood , ' Roxana Rogers and Kim MCC; Lady Warriors Physical Education Build- Cox, bot h Lake , and Notch 20th Win ing. Sophomore Dewayne Miranda Rosa r o f It was a clean sweep Moo- Hughes ofSebastopol had Nes hoba Central, four day night for East Central 20 points to lead the War– each; India Backstrom of Community College bas- riors who avenged an ear– Neshoba Central and ketball teams, which lier 100-94 setback to the Hope Murray of West postedwinsoverMeridian Eagles. [t was Hughes' Jones, three each; and Community College in three-pointer with a just Britney Burks of Scott non-divisionaction held on few seconds that clinched Central, two. Dawanna the MCC campus. The the come-from-behind Addison ofMagnolia had LadyWarriors, tied for fif- win. Also scoring were 15 points to lead South- teenth in the latest NJCAA Jamaal Martin of North– west, which fell to 8-12 poll, rolled to a 9 1_74 vic- east Lauderdale, 15; Ryan and 5-5 . The Lady War- tory over the Lady Eagles Hudson of Louisville and riors, led bythird-yearhead to improve to 20-2 overall Desmond Jones of coach Brad Hodge, held a and the Warriors held 0 ~ Neshoba Central, II each; See "ECCC" page 8

"ECCC" con tin ued from page 4 Stephen Dyess of North– east Lauderdale .gh w· . 'et t· Al tUts ofNewto C ' n ounty seven; Tellas B . ' Phil umstde of adelphia, five; and Neil Tadlock of Lak Gerrick Nichol: a~~ Thomastown t E • wo each C held a slim 36-34 d . · vanta a - ge at the break E c t · ast en_ raJ teams travel to Coptah-Lincoln C - ommu- nity College Thursday and host Jones County Junior C~lle~e on Monday and Mtsstssippi Gulf Coast Community College on Thursday, February 19 to co~clude regular season act10n. , , ,_. . .... ~- .._ . - ·-

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