2004

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Warriors take road win at Itawamba; host SW

quarter possession from its 20. A short punt put EC in business at the ICC 47 and eight plays later, the Warriors got their only touchdown of the night on a 6-yard run by Terrance McFadden. Ryan Gale added the extra point for a 7-0 lead with 3:50 to go in the first period. · McFadden finished with 109 yards on 23 carries. For the year, the freshman from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has 228 yards on 47 rushes. EC extended its lead to 10-0 on its first possession of the second half when Ryan Gale booted a 51-yard field goal. A Warrior fumble enabled the Indians to get their only points of the night. Taking over at the EC 45, it took only five plays for ICC to score on a 27-yard pass from Ken Topps to Lamarcus Windham with 3:11 remaining in the third quarter. ICC had one final threat, driving from its 20 to the EC 35 with Topps connecting on five passes on the drive. Facmg fourth-and-two, Topps was stopped a yard short of a first down on an option keeper by Eichelberger and McNair with only 2:27 left in the non-division matchup. EC worked the clocked down before punting and then Willie Hickman recovered a fumble on the punt with just 14 seconds remaining. EC is slated to host Southwest Mississippi, 0-2, Thursday at 6:30 p.m. However, if Hurrican Ivan is threatening a decision on whether to postpone the contest will be made today (Wednesday). EC's games can be heard on KICKS 98.3 FM in Carthage.

East Central Community College showed Thursday night at Fulton that the best defense can often be a good offense. While a 10-7 Warrior \\in b ~ver the l~di~ doe!>Il t sound MJcy like an offenqve shootout, EC Stamp er did control the lme of scrim- mage and rack up 330 yards to ICC's 150. "We're excited to get our first win," EC head coach Terry Underwood said. "We felt like Itawamba was a quality team. We felt like it would be a tough game and it was. "Offensively, I thought we improved a lot. We had 330 yards and about 270 on the ground. We moved the ball well, but didn't get it in the end zone as much as "':e wanted to. We missed one fiel d goal. "We've got to get better in the red zone area. "Defensively, we played an outstanding game again. They had 21 rushing attempts for 32 yards, so we held them to 1.5 yards per rush. They had 130 yards passing. Any time you hold anybody under 200 yards total offense, that's pretty doggone smoky. "We had a big fourth down lat~ in the game where they were moving the 1:5all and wen t for it and we stopped them. Sed Eichelberger and Brian McNair made a big– tiime play with the game on the line." "The biggest difference in the game, no doubt, was that they controlled the line of scrimmage," Itawamba coach Jeff Terrill said. "It's hard to come ou t on top when a team does that against you." The Warriors' defense helped set up the first score as they dropped the Indians for eight yards in losses after ICC started a first-

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