2006

ECCC pulls off sweep of MCC DECATUR- In baseball terminology, the East Central Community College Warriors played for the big inning in Thursday's MACJC South Divi~ion basketball game with Meridian Community College. The Warriors delivered as a 17-0 run in the first half turned a 31-23 Eagle lead into a 40-31 Warrior advantage. Then, with the game hanging in the balance, U1e Warriors ran off 10 straight points in the final .:;ix minutes to turn a precarious 61-60 lead into a much healthier 71-60 margin. 'Ibc Warriors went on to take a 78-66 win. Pierre Barlow and Johnny Hodge both hit a 3-pointer in the first half run, while Hodge sparked the second run with a pair of treys. Hodge led theWarriors with 24 points. Sam Walton had 16, Ricardo Alcantar 10, Bryan Johnson eight and Andre Coleman six. The Warriors improved to 14-3 overall and 5- 1 in the South Division and hold at least a share of t1rst place. "Assuming Pearl River beat Co-Lin, we'll be playing them for first Monday at Pearl River," ECCC head coach Steve Hampton said. "I felt tonight was a good team win for us. "We had a good team effort and did a good job defensively on Oordan) Payne. I knew Oasper) Hall could play and (Dexter) Leflore stepp<•d up and did a good job for them." The Warriors did a much better job of not allowing the opponents second and third shots. "We've rebounded a lot better the last two games," Hampton said. "We've made a con– scious effort to do that. Hopefully, we'll con– tinue to do that. That was one of the better games we've played in a while." MCC fell to 11-6 and 3-3. •fn both f tho;;.e run" I think rebounding ~ a tre!:nerldv::.-:5 f second-, hot opportunitie... and Wt mb-.cd ~ome free throw~. They rebounded and they defended. "All the credit goes to them. They outplayed us and were the better team tonight. They just did a terrific job." MCC gol 25 points from Hall, 18 from Leflore, eight from Stanley Turner and seven from Payne. ECCC was 21-of-28 at the free-throw line, while MCC was 4-of-13. ECCC women 73 Meridian 66 '!be Lady Warriors led by as many as 23 points in the second half before fending off a late charge by MCC for the seven-point win. ECCC improved to 12-5 overall and 5-l in the South Division. The Lady Warriors entered the night one game behind Copiah-Lincoln for By Marty Stamper staff writer

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SHOOTING A JUMPER East Central Community College's Elyse Clay puts up a JUmper aga nst Meridian Comrnurut

College dunng f~rst half action in Decatur. the league lead. \iCC fell to 11-6 and 4-2.

had all thewa1 around. We wereju::.t a:· LaSaundra Harrison hit a pair of 3-pointers in the second half as we were the fir-.t. and Andrea Dubose added another trey as "Elyse Cla} .. play in the first halfwa-. t ECCC took a 19-4 lead with less than seven us. She had L points in the first half.· minutes elapsed. Clay hit three straight baskets to pu:Jt a The Lady Warriors led by as many as 21 11 Lady Warrior lead up to 30-11 with - 1 points in the first half before taking a 41-24 in the first half. lead into the break. "Sara had a big night ~coring and ECCC grabbed its biggest lead of the night board-.," mith added. "We rebounded at 69-46 with 4:56 remaining was by far our bt:-.t gan1e of the year r Sara Judice led ECCC with 19 points. pleased with them." Dubose and Elyse Clay both had 15, Harrison The I adv \\arrior..; -.bot 21 frt:t: 10 and Valerie Harris &ix. making}.). ~ICC wa-.. 17-of-25 at the "It was important to get off to a good start MCC got 14 point from Hilal Yil and I thought the girls came out really ready to from Carla Latham, eight each fr C play tonight," ECCC head coach Billy Smith Wade and Daruelle Cooper, said. "That was one of the best games we've Dial and ix from Courtn •