2005

Jones stormed out to a 14-3lead. but Ea t Central fought back and too · a _5-;_4 ead WI : o teft in the first half on a pair of free throws by Kim Cox. The teams swapped leads four more times in the half before Jones went up 34-32 at intermission. Martin, a Bay Springs graduate, then took over for Jones. With the Lady Bobcats leading 44-40 with 15:17 left. ~artin canned three 3- pointer~ in less than three minutes. Her final trey gave Jones a 55-45 ltad with 12:15 remaining. . East Central got a~ a close as 68- 61 with 4:46 left when Kristin Cheney scored. but that was as close as the Lady Warriors got. Jones made free throw~ down the stretch, finishing the game going 26-for-27 from the foul line. Wayne County product Natalie Jordan led five Jones players in double figures with 22 points. Brit– tany Baham added 17, Martih had 16. Quitman graduate Shalanda Carter had 12 and Bridgett Lock– hart added 10. Carter posted a double-double, pulling down 10 rebounds. Jones improves to 11-4 overall, 3- 0 in the division. Cheney paced East Central with 24 points. Katreece Bender added 12, and Shannon Lloyd added 1L The Lady Warriors are now 8-6, 0-3. East Central (men) 90 Jones 80 East Central coach Billy Smith was pleased with his team's first division win. "We hit a Jot of free throws at the end, and I thought that was the dif– ference," he said. 'This was our first road win in conferenct• and that's always big. I was just proud of the

effort our guys gave. I thought we played hard." On the other hand, Jones coach Robert Mcinnis wa~ not happy with the way the Bobcats responded to a 92-87 overtime loss at home against Hinds last week. ''I'm very disappointed," he said. "1 don't know what caused us to come out and play so lackadaisical that caused us not to get loose balls. I don't understand a lot of things about basketball. "I thought our players, individu– aily and one-on-one, were better play<>rs. But the way they (East Cen– tral) came out and chased the ball and outhustled us, obviously they came out with a better team." East Central led for most of the first half, but the Bobcats took a 42- 41 halftime lead on a 3-pointer by Stanley Brownlee with 17 seconds left. · The Bobcats took their largest lead of the game at 61-55 with 12:41

left when Duran Eckford made a free throw. The Warriors came back and took a 70-68 lead with 8:59 left when Jacques Jones slammed in a dunk. Brownlee then tied it at the 8:28 mark. That's when East Central went on an 8-0 run, capped by an Andre Coleman basket. That put the War– riors ahead 78-70 with 6:48 remaining. The Bobcats got within 84-80 witb 2:40 remaining when Jammie Evans scored, but they did not score again. Andrew Lewis led East Central, 4- 10 overall and 1-2 in the division, with 21 points. Ricardo Alcantar added 15, Andre Coleman had 12 and Pierre Barlow added 10. Evans paced Jones (8-5, 1-2) with 25 points. Brownlee added 18, Prince T rotter had 11 and Eckford had 10. Brownlee finished with a double-double, grabbing 10 boards.