2004

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Viverette (8.9 ppg, 6 7 rpg) 5-foot-9 sophomore Rita Birden (9.8 rpg), 5-foot-9 fres...,,.....a– Kotreece Bender (7.6 ppg , 3 2 rpg). 5-foot-11 sophomore Monique Overstreet (4 2 ppg 2.0 rpg), 5-foot-10 freshman India Backstrom (4.1 ppg, 3.0 rpg), and 5-foot-7 freshman Kim Cox (4.0 ppg). Head coach Jack Childress is in his 11th year at Three Rivers with a 233-106 record O\le' that span "We've got a little bit of 1nformat1on on them," Childress said of the Lady Warriors It sounds like they're a very talented team. We're looking forward to playing them. It'll be a challenge I know we're gomg to have to have our 'A' game to play them. They beat Northeast pretty good and we lost to them down there. I don't feel like we played our best game (at Northeast) We re playmg a little bit better now, but who knows? · "When we throw it up. we re gomg to find out • Childress added "I know that Chaney san awful good player, and I know that Gray IS an awful good player. Dean Randall Lee (a Beulah Hubbard grad and former ECCC student and dean) works at Three Rivers. In fact, Chaney goes to the same church as him (at Little Rock). so we've got some common ground there."

Three Rivers is ranked fifth in the NJCAA in free-throw percentage at 69.2 percent

Two of the Lady Raiders' b1ggest wins this season have come against fifth-seeded Southeastern Illinois College Three Rivers won 84-73 at Poplar Bluff, Mo., on Dec 1 and whipped the Lady Falcons 82-57 at Harrisburg, Ill., on Feb. 23.

The Lady Raiders' other losses have come to Coffeyville (Kan.). which finished 22-10, Chipola (Fla.), Moberly, and Crowder.

East Central hasn't lost smce falling at Pearl River on December 4. The Lady Warriors defeated Copiah-Lincoln 52-45 for the Reg1on 23 crown on March 4. The Lady Warriors are ranked 19th in the NJCAA in points allowed, giving up 60.64 per outing. ECCC averages 73.4 points.

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