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Early goals propel ECCC By Marty Stamper staff writer DECATUR-The East Ct:n– lral Community College War– riors scored three first-half goals in opening their 2004 soccer season with a 4-1 win over East Mississippi Commu– nity College Saturday. "It was a good game," ECCC coach Kenneth Thomp~n said. '1'he guys played poor)) Wednesday (in a .;;crimmage game) and they wanted to play better today. "Of course, Scooba is a rival game, so they want to play well against them. They know some of the guys and some are from out of their district, so they want to play well. "We're trying to be compeli· tive, so we're working hard." The Warriors took a 1-0 lead barely three minutes into the match when David Prewitt headed a high pass from Diego Perez into the net. Midy.ray through the first half, Taylor Nichols booted a close-range kick into the upper left corner of the goal. "It was actually a cross that scored," Thompson said of \Sichols' goal. "It really wasn't a APPEARED EN :

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East Centra Com --~y Co ege's Jason Lopez sweeps the ball away from East MISSissippi Commur ty Co e;: s DaVIs Jordon.

shot on goal. It wa a c.. ~ that he sliced and it went .n·o the goal. It's still all good. In the final three minutes of the first half. Kvle \'ov.-ell added another goal from do~ range for a 3-0 lead. ''\Ve moved Kyu~ to forward today," Thomps n ~aic! "We had been using him on the wing, but w.· needed to get more speed up top an~ he gave us a boost. Plus, he's got a little

bit more power on his shots and that helped us out a lot today." A 3-0 halftime deficit was too much for the Lions to make up. "The first one was simple marking," EMCC coach Brian Bennett said. "We let off our man. But we've got a goal– keeper who played one year in high school and he's still learning. We're working on him coming out and taking those

away. It was a hard play for a defender. "A couple of the other ones were just sloppy play by our team that just gave them some easy shots. We didn't make them earn them is the worst part. "We had four goals from three different guys and three were assisted, so that's always good," Thompson said.

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