2006

Lady Warrior continue llot start By Rocky Higginbotham spo1ts editor

~ You have to give them credit. Scooba came out and played really hard. ECCC women's coach Billy Smith pointer with 6:59 left. But in the next 5 minutes, 35 sec– onds, EMCC turned it over six times and East Central capitalized with a 10-2 run to go up 58-52. The Lady Warriors then hit four free throws in the final 2:46 to help seal the win and improve to 5-1. 'We played just well enough .. . we just managed to stay ahead of them," Smith said. "But I told the girls we've played four straight on the road and we've won three of them: and anytime you can do tJtat in our league, you've sOt to be proud." Brown scored atll3 of her points in the fir$t hall. while Evans had 11 ol her 13 in the :second halt :for ECCC. Harris finished with 11 and fonner :'\ewton Count} standout Andrea Dubose scored seven. Danielle Baldwin led EMCC with 11 points, while BrittanJ Kennt d} had nine and Sheena Robmson -:even. John~lin. Sade Coate~ and Hattie John:.on all had six points. Coatt-.. and Kennedy arc former Merd' n High <>tandout~. EMCC men East Central 103 98 'Tb r ..1ons earned their first vic– tory of the season with a come-from· behind win in an over time contest that ended ju... t before The 1\leridian Star went to pres:s. £:\ICC b now l-5. while ECCC fell ro 3-3. No other detail:.. were avail– able. Ea:-t Mi:'... h, ·ippi return' to action Monday and Tue~day in the Gulf Coast Holidav Classic, while East Central's team::. are done until after Thanksgiving.

SCOOBA- When the women's teams from East Central and East

Mississippi Com– munity College me t in their season-openers earlier this month, the host Lady Warriors

- --- trailed the entire contest before ge tting a game-win– ning 3-pointer from Tanesha Brown. Things were just about as tough in the rematch he re Thursday night at EMCC's Keyes Currie Gymna– sium - but the end result was the same. East Central s tarted fast, then weathered a seesaw second half to knock off the host Lady Lion 61-56 in the opening contest of a double– header betwten the two rivals. EMCC won the men's game 103-9 . In the women's game. Ea ·t Cen– tral jumped to an 8-0 lead, only to see EMCC rally t 'go up 29-28 at the half. "You have to give them credit,'' ECCC co•.ch Billv Smith said of the host Lady Lion~. who fell to 1-5. "Scooba came out and played really hard. "It was a clo::.e ball game the whole time. W -..tarled \\ith an ~0 run and I think that was our bigge... r lead the whole game." Smith said. EMCC scored the first two ba-.– kets of the second half to go up 33-2 - only to see :reshman Tawaytha Evans of East Central score the next seven points to put he r team ahead. The lead changed hands five times in the second half. and a steal and layup by Ta..;iaJohnson had Ea ·t Mississippi up 43-39 with 10:48 remaining. A basket by Valerie Harris off a nice dish by Chotsani Henderson gave ECCC a 48-47 lead, then the Lady Lions went back up 5048 when Precetia Studaway banked in a 3-