2004

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ECCC falls to Co-Lin in division opener

By Marty Stamper staff wnter DECATUR- The Copiah– Lincoln Lady Wolves pulled·a few surprises on the Lady War– riors of East Central Commu– nity College Monday night and came away with a 66-61 win in the MACJC South Division opener for both teams. Travalyn Smith and Crystal Brown combined for 28 points inside to lead the 8-4 Lady Wolves. Smith had 18 points and Brown had 10. 'Their big Hodge. "1 though t their guards were the key to their offense and their team. We just did not prepare fo r that type of per– formance from their posts. We know now. That's something we'll have to make an adjust– ment to when we see them again. 'That's only one game. It's an important one because it's at home and you want to take care of those that are in your back yard. girls were a surprise to us" said ECCC head coach Brad

Shannon Lloyd six. Backstrom had a team-high nine rebounds. Chaney, Lloyd and Kotreece Bender each had five boards. Young had three steals. Co-Lin (men) 76 ECCC 73 As has been the case much of the year, the Warriors dug themselves into an early hole, rallied back to take a brief lead in the late going, then were unable to close out with a win. The Wolves (7-5, 1-0) took a 35-25 advantage into halftime, then upped their lead to 40-25 in the .first minute of the second ha!I. ECCC battled back with a vengeance over the next 17 minutes, finally using a 7-0 run in a 32-second span to go up 73-72 with 1:52 left Andrew Lewis started the run with a 3- pointer with 2:24 remaining to pull the WarriorS. to within 72- 69. Tawon Walker cut the deficit to one with a reverse layup 20 seconds later. A steal and layup by Lewis put ECCC up 73-72, but the Warriors were unable to score over the final1:52 as they dropped to 3-9 overall and 0-1 in the division.

"We've just got to correct some mistakes and play better and get ready for Thur day (at Mississippi Gulf Coast). We don't have time to pout about it now." Co-Lin took a 35-30 lead into halitime. After four ties - the last at 49 with 11:35 to play - the Lady Wolves went down 52- 51 on a 3-pointer from ECCC's Kim Cox a minute later, then reeled off six straight points and never trailed again. Perhaps the game's biggest basket was a 3-pointer by Gloria Lewis with 1:28 to go with the shot clock running out that gave the Lady Wolves a 62-58 advantage. "With the clock running out and her going with a three, I'll take that," Hodge said. "But she made it and good players make shots like that" Lewis finished with 17 points, 15 of which came in the ~econd half. Kristin Chaney led ECCC (8- 4) with 17 points, 13 of which came in the first half. Cox added 13, Tierra Young had 11, India Backstrom eight and

A three-point play by Joe Holliday gave the Wolve- the lead for good at 75-73 with 1:1~ remaining. "Same story,we have four or five minutes in every game where we just relax, and that's where the other teams get leads," said ECCC head coach Bill Smith! "Then we have to fight and scrap too hard to get back. ~e had chances tonight, we just didn't capitalize on orne open looks. We got some unlucky bounces on some rebounds that they got offen– sive rebounds and put them back in. They did what they had to do to win and we didn't get the job done for us to win." Lewis led ECCC with 18 points. Garrick Nichols scored 11, Ricardo Alcantar had nine and Walker, Andre Coleman, Pierre Barlow and Coshune Bingham each had six. Co-Lin got 25 points from Ledell Eakles, 12 from Dexter Middleton, nine from Cedric Walker and eight from Arvel Keys.

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