2007

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ECCC women take win over Gulf Coast By Marty Stamper special to The Star from Brovm, who nailed four 3-poinl bas– kets in the first 20 minutes.

Ulmer scoring 11. ' Gulf Coast ECCC men

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Brown, a freshman from Jackson Provine, finished with seven treys and 31 points. "She hit some big shoL"' in the second half ~d kinda got us going a lillie bit;• SmitH said. "We would have liked to have s tayed a little further ahead of them, but they hit some tough shots against the zone. then when we went back man. they made several natural three-point plays and got back in the ballgame. We just hit some free throws down the strflch to keep the lead.'' ECCC got 26 points from Dubose, who also had a good night behind the arc. "When th~ 3s are falling, we can shoot with anybody," Smith said. The Lady Warriors also got 11 points from Valerie Harris, who came into the game ranked ninth nationally in scoring at 19.8 points per game and 25th in field goal percentage. Gulf Coast (8-16, 310) placed five playe rs in double figure~ with Carrie Dawson scoring 21, andy Thompson and Valencia Rice both getting 17, Ja'net Schonberg adding 13 and Leatrice

DECATUR- With Tanesha Brown and Andrea Dubose combining for 57 points, the East Cenlral Community Col– lege Lady Warriors moved into third place in the MACJC South Division standings with a 93-89 win over Missis– sippi Gulf Coast Community College Monday night. ECCC improved to 8-5 in the division and 16-7 overall. Going into Monday, Copiah-Lincoln was in first place at 11-l, followed by J one.s at 9-3. The Lady War– riors' win, coupled with Meridian Com– muni!) College's 74-66 victory over Southwest Mississippi, left both MCC and Southwest in a tie for fourth at 7-6 with one league game remaining. TI1e Lady Warriors wrap up the reg– ular st•ason Thursday at Pearl River. "It could still be a three-way tie," ECCC coach Billy Smith said. "South– west has got the tiebreaker over us and~ we've got the tiebreaker over Meridian. · "The South Division is by far the tougher of the two divisions. If we can manage to be in the top four of it, that's a pretty good deal for us." ECCC took a 43-36 lead over Gulf Coast into halftime behind 20 points

lbe Warriors fell behind early as the Bulldogs led by as many as 16 points b<•fore taking a 43-29 lead into halltime. ECCC closed to within 62-57 on a tip in by Marquis Wilson with 8:15 remaining and fought to within 70-67 on a basket by Darron Maxtion with 4:43 showing. The Warriors had two misses and a turnover on their next two possessions, but still got to within 70-68 on a free throw by Earnesto Green with 3:18 to go. Gulf Coast made 3-of-4 free throws over the next minute and got a dunk from Ronald Douglas with 1:53 left to extend its lead to 75-!)8. Green led ECCC (7-16, 3-10) with 23 points. Wilson scored 14, Bryan Johnson had 10 and Caleb Pearson made three 3-pointers in a nine-point night. Divis ion champion Gulf Coast (19-5, 12-1) got 21 points from Henry Salter, 13 from Lee Trebotich. nine from A.J . Hunt, and eight eac h from Douglas. Luther Suggs and Carlos Wright.

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