2004

Hard-traveling Warri

By Marty Stamper EMG sports assistant

At A Glance

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DECATUR - For the second year in a row, the East Central Community College Warriors will have to fare well on the road to have any shot at making the state junior college playoffs. Only four of their nine games will be played at home. ECCC finished 2-7 a year ago after going 3-6 in 2002 and faces a schedule that

2003:2-7 2003 Finish: Did not qual:fy for playoffs Head Coach: Terry Underwood (28-31, seventh year) Assistant Coaches: Tim Coats, Chris Boone, Carey Melvin, Terry Evans, James Keys Division: MACJC South Key Returnees: Kelvin Horne, RB; Cameron Tawater, TE; James Ozment, OL: Sed Eichelberger, LB; Mantrell Ashford, DE

has North– west Missis– sippi, which is ranked No. 2 in the NJCAA pre– season poll, No. 5 Pearl River, No. 13 Hinds. and No. 20 Jones along with a Southwest Mississippi team that

at Northwest at ltawamba Southwest at Pearl River East Mississippi Copiah-Lincoln at Gulf Coast at Hinds Jones

Sept. 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 9 Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct.28

We feel like we've got a chance to have a good and very competitive team, but what makes it even tough is the schedule we play.

21-14 13-17 6-35 17-33 42-19 7-17 10-17 31-40 0-24

Holmes Northeast

Pearl River Gulf Coast Copiah-Linoorn

received votes.

Jones Hinds

The first Warriors coach four games Terry Underwood are with Northwest, ltawamba, Southwest, and Pearl River with only the South· west contest being in Decatur. "We're optimistic about our football team," ECCC seventh– year head coach Terry Under– wood said. "We feel like we've got a chance to have a good and ver y competitive team, but what makes it even tougher is the schedule we play. "We'll put our schedule up with anybody in the state of Mississippi. We don't make our schedule, it just rotates and thi is the first year of a two-year deal. "We open up at No. 2 North– west and we play all the nation– ally-ranked teams in the state ... Pearl River, Hinds, and 1 ones. And we play Itawamba, who may be as good as anybody in the Nor th Division. ''Then you've got your rival game with East Mississippi which is traditionally a good game. There's jusl a lot of tough contests out there. "We've got a very tough schedule. We've got our hands full." While the Warriors were only 2-7 a year a~o. they had a

Northwest Southwest

2·8 2·8 10·1 7-3 3-7 8-3.

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

6-4 6·4 3-6 2-7 49·51 254-313-18

2001 2002 2003 10-year record record since 1946 • denotes playoff appearance

-compiled by Marty Stamrer

Hinds, and a nine-point los to Northwest Five Warriors were naned ~IAN -------------------

four-point loss to Northeast Mississippi, a 10-point loss to Jones, a seven-point loss to

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