2008

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WEEK OF

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EC Lady Warriors., Warriors post wins over Southwest

' "Any time you can get a win like that off a defensive stop, that just solidifies what we've been trying to do all year," said second-year bead coach Maurice Bowie whose Warriors were once again involved in a close contest. "Luckily we were able to hold on to the ball, get a jump, and win the ball game." EC was led by Marquis Wilson, a 6-6 sophomore for– ward of Delhi, La., who had 20 points. Other point makers were Darron Maxtion, a product of Sparkman High School in Harves4 Ala., 13; Josh Luckett of Carthage, 1 0; Devarus "Scooter" Walker of Newton County, Des Morales of Lake and Rod Lofton of Forest, six each: Tony Parker of Meridian, five; Brown, of South Leake, four; and Dre Dickinson of Meridian, two. Aubrey Coleman of Houston, Texas, had 26 point to lead Southwest, which fell to 7- 14 and 3-8.

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East Central Community College's nationally ranked Lady Warriors snapped a two– game skid with an 85-66 thump– ing of the Southwest Community College Lady Bears and the Warriors held\on for a 72-71 decision over the Bears in MACJC South Division action Monday night in the Brackeen-Wood Physical Education BuildiQg in Decatur. Head coach Bill Smith was obviously pleased with the per– formance of the 24th ranked Lady Warriors, who improved to 17-4 overall and 8-3 in league play. "We needed a good win," Smith said following the easy vic10ry whkh avenged an e-arli– er 82-69 setback to the Southwest women. '•1 thought we played pretty well the first half. We shot the ball well and did some things against their zone that we did not do the first game with them. We hit shots

Rashima Jenkins, a 5-9 freshman forward and product of Airline High School in Bossier City, La., led EC in scoring with 26 points. Choctaw Central product Mystee Dale, also a freshman forward at 5-8, also bad a productive evening with 20 points. Other scorers were Tanesha Brown of Jackson Provine. 12; Tawayatha Evans of Newton, nine; Jordan Patterson of Oak Hill Academy, five; Alisha McAfee of Northwest Rankin and Allison Phillips of Leake Academy, four each; Nicole Williams of Newton, three; and Chotsani Henderson, also of Newton. two. Kimberly Griffin of Woodville bad 20 points to lead Southwest, which fell to 14-6 and 6-5. ln the men's contest, Southwest's Phillip Brown missed a shot in the final sec– onds and Warrior Justin Brown got the rebound as ECCC held on for the victory.

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