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Copiah I hkoln Cor College i 11 ;wesson. The Lac 1\ Warri• began to111 namen1 tition Monday by Holmes Cl)nununit 65-60, tJ'llilt·d tht most of tlu · contest their first lt·;\d at 4 10:11 rc111n!nmg on by Tien .1 Yotmg ' Leake. 'Ymti tg woul• the gamt ih. 51-51 under two ntinute! the Lady 'I m.tans 1"1 willi ciehl straigt including 1 1 hree-1 the buzz!· 1 hy Var Mitchell <•I C' lcvelE l·~a~t Cen'iml. wh IR n. was h~t l by Ki Lake. who tallied 1 Jazmaitw Cain < Bayou h;ul 19 poin Delta, which imi 17 ·7. East (~•·ntral, trailed hy as rna points i11. irst ha cut the Dcll. t lead the brcnl( The Dclt ft and l women "til battl state title h•n ight. Rangers tW·Pt No1 81 Wednt... cl;ty afte Lady Warrior ment act ioll ran b KICKS 9B ('l8.3 F ing veter:ut spor~ er Melvin Woote thage.

non Lloyd both chipped in 13 points.

went on a 1 o-2 run to cut the lead to •11-iiB with 14:26 left in the Sl'COild half. The two teams traded bas– kets down thr stretch. Gulf Coast cut the lead to 57-55 with 7~0<1 left. East Central outscored Gulfcoast l 8·fi over the final five minutes and hit 14 free throws to hold on for the win. Chaney fmished with 16 to lead East Central and India Backstrom and Shan-

East Central, the defend– ing Region 23 champions, improve&. to 19-9 and will play the Mississippi Delta– Jones winner at 6 p.m. today. "They are too good a team to try to win the game in the firs t eight minutes," ECCC cnach Brad Hodge said. " Fortunatley when we got ·into the last five minutes we uwdP free throws and made stnp~ on the defensive end."

I~CCC opened thqgame on fire as 1\ rislen Chaney con– m~cl(•d ou two three-point ers and hit three fi'(,'{\ throws in a ~i n run to open the game. GuJJ Const slowly battled its way back and scored the fmal points of the first half to cut the lead to 37-28 at the half. In the second half, East Central opened with two free throws but Gulf Coast

Fnun__SlLlll.R.·wuts. - .JJ- --~' CLINTON - A game that looked like an easy victory in the first eight minut0s turned into a battle for l•:ast Central Community Collt' 1 W in the Region 2:~ tournmncnt Tuesday aftemoon. TheLadyWat'l'iors opened the game with a 2.1-6 run but had to fight to hold off' Gulf Coast in the second half tor a 75-62 win at Miss iss ippi College in Clinton.

Miss. Delta 59, ECCC 51 A second-straight s tate tournament title was not in the cards for the East Central Community College Lady Warriors who fell 59-51 to Mississippi Delta Com– munity College Wednesday night in semi-fmal action of the MACJC Basketball State Championship held at

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