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ECCC trio not new at being new : By Marty Stamper ~ staff wrfter DECATUR- Joy Cavenaugh, Maggie McDill and Kenneth Thompson have been a part of first-year soccer programs before. Cavenaugh was an eighth grader and McDill a seventh grader when Newton County High School began its girls' soccer program. l t was Thompson that started soccer at NCHS. Now the trio are part of East Central Com- munity College's first women's soccer team. Thompson cur rently has only a dozen players on this year's roster He's hoping more help is on the way, but is ready to face the challenge with the girls already in the fold if he has to. The small numbers should be expected as only Newton County and Neshoba Cen– tral play girls' soccer in ECCC's five-county district. MACJC members are allowed only one out-of-stater and the women's program has not filled that slot. Four of the eight team members are [rom out-of-district or th'ere

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would be no team this year. ''Most all of them are going to have to go the whole game," Thompson said. "We're still trying to add a couple girls [rom down south. They're trying to get all their financial aid worked out. They're just going to have to be 90-minute Warriors." , Completing the roster are keeper Samantha Giambrone, forward/midfielder Celeste Burt, and midfie\der jerica Williamson, all of Neshoba Central; defender Amanda Eaves of Newton County, defender .. ~ • • n~A ..voirlfit•lclr>r Heather Lewis.