2006

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quit and won that huge game." Top players for MCC include Carla Latham, Holly Dial, Danielle Cooper and Courtney Wade. Holmes enters the tourna– ment on an e ight-game win streak under former Ole Miss head coach Ron Aldy. East Central's 17-8 Lady Warriors take on Nor thwest (14-7) at 7 p.m. LaMaesha McAdory, a 5-foot-11 freshman from Coldwater, posted her 16th double– double of the season for the Lady Rangers in a 78-51 win over Mississippi Delta on Thursday. Leading coach Bill Smith's Lady Warriors are LaSaundra Harrison. Andrea Dubose, Shannon Lloyd, Valerie Harris, Sara judice and Elyse Clay. At 3 p.m., Copiah-Lincoln (16-6) plays Mississippi Delta (13-11), while Northeast Mis– sissippi (18-4) squares off with Gulf Coast (17-8) atS p.m. Northeast was ranked No. 21 in last week's NJCAA poll. The Lady Tigers have won 11 of their last 12 games. Gull Coast had a six-game win streak s napped with Thursday's homecourt loss to Meridian. While Co-Lin's record is clearly better than Delta's, the Lady Trojans defeated Co-Un tWJl'e (59-54 and 48-40) during the regular season.

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Holme, come-. in with a four-Rame win treak, while Itawc. nba' lndtan-. won their last three gam Gulf Coast clo"" I out the r~ar -.ea...on with a three-lnUlle \\ .;.treak after 1.r~ht '"'' ., to Ea~t _entral. Co-l m and ] one-. left its playoff h Jpes shaky. Women'.. (!aille.. are on tap forTue-.da\ \teridi n'.. 16-9 Lady Eagle... open the day at 1 p.m. again-.t Holme-. (1 . Hilary Allen·:- MGC :;quad clo-.t"d out its r' gular -.ea-. n v.ith wins over Ea-.t Central and Gulf Coa-.t to q~ after looking iffy follov.ing three :.traight losse-. to uth\\e-.t. Co-Lin and ]one-.. In the \\in over East Central the lad} Eao:!le rallied from a 30-4 defic t to win 7~73. UWith fi'

MCC, ECCC teams enter state tourney

By Marty Stamper staff writ er

ranked No. 3 nationally in last week's NJCAA poll. · Northwest's only loss was a 97- 78 loss to Chipola (Fla.) College in a tournament at West Plains, Mo., on Jan. 6. Chipola was ranked second in last week's NJCAA poll. East Central comes in with a 17- 8 mark, but the Warriors have lost three of their last four games. Top players for coach Steve Hampton include SamWalton. Paul Milligan, Brian Johnson, John ny Hodge, Earnesto Green and Andre Coleman . Today's other men's games find Holmes (17-8) taking on Gulf Coas t (16-9) at 1 p.m., Pearl River (16-9) meeting Coahoma (9-15) at 3 p.m. and Copiah-Lincoln (15-7) squaring

Both the men's and women's bas– ke tball teams from East Central Community College, along with the women from Meridian Community College, will be trying to br ing h ome champions hips fr om the MACJ C State Tournament this week at No rthwest Mississ ippi Community College in Senatobia. Play begins today with four men's games on tap. East Central draws the unenviable task of trying to dethrone de fending s tate cham– pion and tournament host North– west in the 7 p.m. contest. The Rangers from Northwest are riding a 36-game homecour t win streak and ar e 24-1 overall this year. The 24 wins break a school record for regular-season wins. They were

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