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Yildirim and .Ant".. ia \kBride. ECCC improved to 6-3 in the di\·ision and 14·5 overall. MCC feU to 5-4 and 12-8. Both t<•ams have five division ganws rPmaining. Only the top four lt>arns make the playoffs. ''It'..; completely up in the air." Allen said. "I• very game i::; crucial. Obviouslv. a road game vic– tory, if we could h,tvt• gotten one. would have bt•t•n huge ior us. As it turned out. East Central held court. Thev've got ::.orne · road games comin~ up and we've got some horne games, so hopefttll} we'll hold court ''It's going to bt• a huge, hug-e battle." ECCC hosts league- leading Copiah-Linculn on 1bursdav. '"We\;e just got to keep taking care of our lmsiness," Smith said. ECCC men Meridian 92 67 The Warriors jumped out to a 52-21 halftime lead in pounding the Eagles. Brandon Sht•lton st·ored ~~~points in tht> first half with Darron Maxtion getting nine and Earnesto C~recn and Marqui s Wilson

EC.CC improved to :~-6 in the division and 7-12 ovt'rall. In losing their seventh straight anflore, 19 from Kl'ith James and 17 from Chris I..("ggetl.

· next four and half minutes until Dial buried her fifth trey of the night, this time from halfcourl as time expired. "There weren't very m,\ ny shob taken during that tinw period,·· Alkn "aid. In making their comeback, the Lady Warriors got a 3· pointer <'ach from Brown and Andrea Dubose. Dubose scored inside the arc with 1:37lef1to put the Lady War- . riors up for good at 87-85. ECCC made 3-of-~ tree throws over a 55-second span to lead 90-87 "'ith 13 second~ remaining. Valerie Harris blocked a 3-point try by Carla Latham, then made a pair of fre(• throws to up the Lady Warrior lead to 92-87 with four o;;econds left. Brow11 added t"' o more free shots two se~.·onds later. Harris led ECCC with 22 points. Brown finishPd with 19. Dubose added 15 and Pat· terson and Jessica Anderson both scored 10. Strickland \\as the star of the sho\\, scoring-"37 points for MCC. The Lad\ Eagles also got 15-from Dial, all from 3-point range, and 12 each from ' ECCC's

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