2006

l "I can't fault our kids, we just got

Lions ,. ECCC are playing to salvage season ·· By Marty Stamper staff wnter The East Mississippi Community CQllege Lions and East Central Community College Warriors find themselves in much the same boat as their SEC bre thren at Starkville and Oxford. With postseason aspirations dropping like the leaves in a stout early fall breeze, both the Lions and Warriors ar e left to salvage their seasons as best they can ove r the remaining four weeks of the 2006 season. In this week's NJCAA poll, Jones was ranked No. 4, followed by Pearl River at No. 7, Gulf Coas t at No. 8 and ltawamba at No. 17. EM C's Demon Bell wa ~pedal Teams Playe r of the Week last week as he re turned s ix k ickoffs for a 19.5-yard average agains t the Rangers. Jarod Bankhead has 41 total tackles, 31 of which are solo. Laquintis Horne has 38 total tackles, while Cedric Locke has 31. "Our backs are up against the wall and our kids know that," Carr said. "I think we'll come out and play hard this week. "T h ey're a little like us. Last week they lost 29-24 to l tawamba and they had a couple othe r close games. They're a Jot better than 0-5. I think we're better than 1-4." AF Northeast los t 14-10 at ,.Hinds and fe ll 31-14 to North– west two weeks ago. Ct "They've gotten their quar– terback back and they're SC throwing the ball really well," Carr said. "We 'll have to ur.,expect to play a good tough football team. W '''I'hey've won the division the las t two years, so they Sf know what it is to win." o· lulf Coast at ECCC The Warriors host the Bulldogs Saturday afte rnoon ·at 2:30 p.m. for homecoming. named MACJ C.

EMCC at Northeast beat by a better football team. The Lion 'travel to Bo~>neville :Et< C They~re much-improved from last tonight to take on a winles · Tige r' yeaNr. th t ks No 13 in the team that fell to 0- or .eas ran · . . 5 with a 29-24 loss ~ MACJC m total yardage, gammg to Itawamba last 230.2 yards per game. week I can 't fault Cameron Montgomery (&2, 220) EMCC our kids, · has rushed 82 times for 365 yards. dropped to 1-4 Brice Beck (&3, 225) has completed with a 55-22 we just 45-of-96 passes for 444 yards and whipping from got beat two touchdowns. Northwest last Kevin Williams (5-10, 195) has e k. by a better completed 29-of-55 tosses for 357 w ~e ran into a football yards as Bec~.~iss~d ~o games pre tty good foot- team. due to tendomtis m hts nght elbow. ball team " Anthony Jones (6-l,~ 175) has 22 EMCC hea'd They 're receptions for 320 yards EMCC is coach Roger much . fifth in total offense, picking up 314 Car said yards per game. LeGarrette Blount r tlunk., imprOl'ed cont~nues to l.ead the state in got to gtve· ~, -.e 1; 0 m las( rushmg, a~era~mg 131.8 yards per folks a lot ot · game. H~ s gamed 659 yards and credit. . The ir year. s~ored SIX touchdowns on 97 .car- offensive line was n es. Steven Black has 15 receptions as good as we've EMCC eoaeh for 215 ya~ds. . played all year. Ro&er Carr J?efenstvely, the Tt.gers rank_ No. "I think our kid pla}·ed a hard 13 m .the s;ate, whtle the L10ns as they could. We v\'e r-pursued on check mat No. 11. North~ast allows some toss plav::. and thev cut them 3~1.4 yards per game, whtle EMCC back and made a lo t of vardage. glve,s up 3~ 7. "And we turned th·e ball over Ne a.l M1tc~ell (5-11, 215) leads twice and that didn't help u . We've the T1ger~ . m tackles w1th 44. got to correcttba.t Clar enceWnght (5-10, 190) has 32. While the -{amor' are out 335). tackle And) ation" (6- We'rc goillg to t(Up of po~tseason contention, the 6. 320). defen..,ive end Willit: working on it and try to get eighth-ranked Bulldog... Pritchett (6-5, 3_ ), nose better." routed Co-Lin 34-10 at Perkin- guard Terrence Cody (b-5, Led by a {H tent ground ton last Saturday. keepin~ 375) and no ... e guard Cruz game that averages 246 yards their hopes alive for reaching John~on (6-:3. 320) per contest. Gulf Coast has the state playoffs. "The\•'ve got about as the No.2 total offense in the Gulf Coast {4-1 overall, 2-1 good a team as we'~;e played," state at 374.8 yards thro~h South Division) sh ares ECCC head ~ )ach Ter ry five games. f second place with Pearl River Underwood ~aid WPearl Wver Carcich has completed 47- (4-1, 2-1) and Co-Lin (3-2, 2-1) beat them, bu they didn't of-73 passes for 527 yards and in the South Division. Jones play extreme ly well in that four touchdowns. (5-0, 2-0) is currently in first game. Co-Eric Riley (6·2, 210) place. The top two fini she rs "I personally think, from has 22 catches for 254 yards in the North and South make top to bottom. they're the and a pair of touchdowns. the playoffs. bes t overall team in the state. Jarvis l(jnchen (6-1, 180) has Gulf Coast led Co-Lin 21-3 "They're going to come in 14 catches for 203 vards and by halftime. Bulldog quarter- with the No.2 rush offense in three touchdowns.· back Andrew Carcich (5-11, the league and we've got to Larrv Warner (5-5. 175) is 220) was named MACJ C s top the r un or it will be a second. in the state in Offensive Player of the Week long afternoon. They can rushing. averaging 103.8 after comple ting 11-of-15 throw the ball They're yards per game with 519 passes for 151 yards and a going to attack you in a lot of yards on 71 carries. Earvin touchdown. He also rushed di rent ways. Moore (5-8. 205) has ru--hed for 85 yards and a pair of Defensively, they'll play a for 262 vards on 40 carrie:'. touchdowns . 3-3 Stack and they've got ECCC rank~ 12th, aver· "1 thought tha t our kids some really big J,.ruys up front. aging 251.8 yank 1ike physically took it to Co-Lin. "We'll have to play nearly Dunn has completed 46-of-76 They have a big, s trong club perfect football to play with passes for 551 yard'. Allen and our kids won that battle," them. We can if we eliminate Stewart is second in th Gulf Coast head coach Steve our mistakes. We played with MACJC in receptions with 14 Campbell s aid. "We can Pearl River last week for a catches for 334 vard .... make our own way, we just good while. We just can't Defensively.' Gulf Loast have to go back to work and make mistakes agains t ranks third. allowing 239.4 not look too far ahead." quality learns. We turned the yards, while ECCC checb in The Bulldogs certainly ball over four ti1m•s and two at No. 12. giving up 318.6 won't be lacking in size as 1were for touchdowns. yards per game. their roster includes g uar d "Last week we lost the ECCC's Andrew Har· Tag Cole (6-1, 335), tackle kicking game and the rington has 41 total tackle Devine Kimble (6-8, 330), turnover game. You've got to with 31 being solos. !von guard Les George (&3, 385), win those two or one of those Hickmon has 43 with 24 guard Leer oy Mitchell (&3, two to have a chance to win. being solos.