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in loss to By Marty Stamper staff wnter DECATUR -Time after time, the East Central Community Col– lcgt:' Warriors h.td chances to pile up the points against Mississippi Delta Communi!) Collt•ge Thursda} ni~ht. Hut most of thosL' opportunities were. either: cknied or wasted as the Trojans took a 12-10 non-division victory. Both teams left Warrior Sta– dium with 1 1 n·curds. "We· had a lot of opportunities ea1 ly in tlH' Ranw off of some blod

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GETTING PROTECTION East Central Communtty College's Johnathan Pickens provides some pass protection aga nst Mississippi Delta Community College's Jonathan Williams as Josh Lowery looks for an open receiver Thursday night

six yards and LaPrade missed I< the left from 27 yards out as the threat produced nothing. ECCC's Perry Jame• promptly recovered a Dell< fumble at the Trojan 21. bu Dunn was picked off after Jost Lowery had lost 20 yards on th1 two previou · plays. . "We dodged a bullet early, i1 the middle and late," Delta heac coach jay :.\1iller said. "Defeo sively, we're pretty good. \V( don't have much depth and the) played a lot of snap , but the) played great . "Terry and his team dtd < good job. They've got a gooc team and they played hard. I was just a real juco foolbal game here tonight." The Warriors reached thE Delta 34 early in the fourU quarter, but lost 21 yards or their own punting fiasco. The Trojans look the leac with 6:46 remaining as Aaror Encalade hit a wide open Jef fery Altman down the middle o the field for a 41-yard score Delta had gotten a 41-yard to • from Encalade to Eddie Love tc the same spot on the previou~ play. ''We had it open the wholE game,~ Miller said. ''Last week we ran the option and they werE lined up in a 50 tonight wher< we couldn't run the option. They were just stuffing lht run. But they couldn't cover thai route. We ran it four or fiv< times in the first half and hac the guy open, but our othet quarterback just didn't see him He's an option guy and just mis· read it. "We let Encalade stand bac'k there and throw it because it was open. From where the:r were, they could not cover it. Terry had to choose his poison and he did what l think was a smart thing to stop the option."

with I 0:31 to go in the second quarter Reed's extra point --~-------------------------L. ·ailed, leaving the Trojans up 6- nces Cos.t ECCC 3. After punting the ball to the

Delta 12, the Warriors were back in bu ines following a 28- yard punt by Reed to the Delta 35. LaPntde, however, misfired to the left on a 35-yard field goal attempt, then missed again from

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30 yards after the Trojans had get ready for next week (at 1 ones)." jumped offside on t?e previous Neither team threatened in the try. The ~econd. mtss was due fi ' th largely to a htgh snap that .rst q!-larter as bo punted three holder Colby Amis barely pulled times m the ~rst 15 mmu.tes. . down in time. The Warnors got the1r first btg Delta threatened just before break when they blocked a James halftime, taking over at the Reed punt and recovered at the ECCC 38 after LaPrade had to Delta 14. The offense was unable to punt from the back of his end produce as ECCC settled for Grey zone. ECCC's Gary Lindsey LaPrade's 30-yard field goal·and a 3- picked off a McGee pass to run 0 lead. out the half. The lead wouldn't last long as The Warriors opened the Delta's Travis McGee hit Jacarious second half with their only Lucas behind the Warrior sec- offensive sign of life of the night ondary for a 77-yard touchdown toss as they drove 55 yards to the See Ecce Page 85

Miss. Delta 12, ECCC 10 head coach Terr}' Underwood said. "Then we ga\e up two big plays on defen ...e- t\\o huge pass plays on brok n cmerage. You can't win that ~a-. ;.If u re going to win, you've comerl when you get and you can't give up the . \\e ju"t didn't do what we d I give Della c redit. They d e

re goin~ to compete in the 'rein. we've ~otto learn to e ~ht now. we could be 2- c uld be 0-2. doesn't get "e've got to regroup and

end zone. Mike Dunn com– pleted passes of 29 yards to Freddie Parham, 14 yards to Allen Stewart and six yards to Desmond Graham before Butler (Kan.) Community College transfer Roosevelt Ross scored on a 6-yard run with 12:46 to go in tije third quarter. r..aPrade's PAT put the War– riors up 10-6. Ahigh snap on a Trojan punt resuIted in Reed losing 36 yards and giving ECCC the ball at the Trojan 16 on the Warriors' next possession. l11ree plays gained IMPACI ___ _

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