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of Itawamba; East Central sweeps Southwest through the half. ICC's Theron Jenkins, a

while former Newton ·tandoul Antonio Grace posted 12. Rico Jones and ex– Newton County Cougar Scooter Walker scored 11 and 10, respectively. The Warriors travel to the Ctica campus of Hinds Community College Thursday. - Chris Brennaman East Central women 73 Southwest 60 The Lady Warriors pulled even in MACJC South Division play with a 13-point win over South– west. Rashima Jenkins notched a double-double with 22 points and 11 boards. while DeShouri Spates chipped in 11 points. East Central, which improved to 11-4 overall and 1-1 in the division, will join the men's team at Hinds Thursday. - Chris Bre1mamm1 PREP BASKETBALL Central Aca. girls 43 Russell Christian 33 The host Lady Vikings outscored Russell by six points each in the second and fourth periods and posted a double-digit win a! CA's Varner Gymnasium in Macon. Central (7-8) led by just one after the first quarter but was up 18-11 at halftime. After the visiting LadyWar– riors pulled within four, the Lady Vikes held a 14-8 advantage in the fo urth period. Lillian Lindsey scored 13 points and Kendall Taylor added 11 to lead Central, while Alex Dawkins pulled in 10 rebounds. Jessie Fuller led RCA with nine points, while Jade McLeod scored eight. Central's girls are at Hebron Friday and RusseU's girls go to Ben's Ford Friday. -Rocky Higginbotham Wayne Aca. girls 51 Latnar Christian 33

Lexi Bowen added L , including a pair of 3--– pointers, while Kelli Durr chipped in nine. Wayne Academy's game with Sylva-Bay will be the Lady Jags' fourth game in five days. - Chris Brennama11 PREP SOCCER West Lauderdale 3 Northeast girls 2 The Lady Knights took a tight division win over the Lady Trojans in a battle of cross-country rivals at West. Baleigh Germany scored first for West off an assist from Hannah Scott, only to see Northeast Lauderdale put a pair of goals on the board and take a 2-1lead at intermission. In the second half, Ger– many scored again to even things at 2 - this time off a corner kick from Kaitlin Polk. Hannah Scott got the game-winning goal off an assist from Kayte Ford with less than 5 minutes remaining. Erika Joyner was cred– ited with seven saves in goal for West, which is 5-1 overall and 1-0 in division play. The Lady Knights host Kosciusko tonight in another division contest. Northeast's girls are at Clarkdale tonight. - Rocky Higginbotham Lamar boys 7 Hillcrest 0 Andy Waite scored four goals as Lamar improved to 8-0 with a shut out of vis– iting Hillcrest. One of Waite's goals came on a header off a corner kick by Cameron Melancon. who finished with three assists and a goal of his own. Tripp Sims and Scott Bound-. also scored for the Raiders. Co!T'bining for the win ir _ goal ;;·ere Tyler Roberb and Ste·:en Stewart. Lamar travels to Jackso Prep Thursday. - Chris Brenn,ama LATE PREP BASKETBAU - East Oktlbbeha 62 Noxubee County girls 4 0 The Tigerettes playe See Roundup P:::~!'le 84

opportunity by ICC to take back the lead, Taylor again drove the lane and was sent to the line for the eventual game-winning free throw~ with 4.6 seconds left. Malcolm Burton's poten– tial game-winning 3-pointer banged off the back of the rim to secure the Lions· two– point road victory. Ware finished with a ga.me-high 29 points and 10 rebounds to register his second double-double of the season. With five Lions in double figures. ~ophomore Darian Donald of Columbus added 14 points for the win– ners. Ware and Donald were each 9-of-9 from the line on the night. -from stltool reports 77 71 The Ladv Ind1ans ofiCC claimed a sLx-point win over the EMCC women in the night's opening contest. With former Southea~t Lauderdale star ~lartika Hull leading the way wi h 16 points and seven rebounds. coach Sharon Thorup ·on·-. Lady Lions fall ro 10-4 ov~rall and 2-1 in North Division play on the year. The East ~lississippi bas– ketball teams return to action next week by hosting divisional foes \tississippi Delta anrl Holmes on Tue-.day and Thursday, respectively. at Keyes T. Currie Coliseum on the Scooba campus. -from school reports East Central men 73 Southwest 61 Trailing by 16 points with 5 minutes remaining in the first half, the East Central Community College War– riors mounted a comeback that would lead to a 12-point win. The Warriors (7-8, 1-1 MACJC South Division). who were down by eight at halftime, beat Southwest Community College 73-61 on Monday in Decatur. EC, which shot 25.8 per– cent in the first half, knocked down 14-of-25 in ltawamba women East Mississippi

Texas Tech signee, cut the deficit to a single point (81- 80) with a pair of free throws at the 1:45 mark. Following an EMCC timeout, the Indians stole the inbounds pass and Gary Dixon converted a 3-pointer to give ICC a brief 83-81 advantage with 1:15 remaining. With less than 30 sec–

onds left, EMCC's Taylor drove the length of the floor to knot the contest at 83-83. Followin.~r a missed EMCC pulls from staff reports FULTON- Sophomore point guard Cataurius Taylor connected on two free throws with 4.6 sec– onds left to give the East Mississippi Lions a key 85- 83 road win over Itawamba Monday night at Lhe Davis Event Center. Rebounding from last week's 85-80 divisional set– back at Coahoma, coach Mark White's 9-5 Lions improve their North Divi– sion mark to 2-1 on the year. Losing for just the eighth off upset time in the last two seasons, the Indians fall to 11-.t overall and 2-1 in divisional play in seeing their eight– game winning streak snapped. Fueled by freshman Coco Ware's 16 first-half points, EMCC used a 10-0 run early in the opening period to take a 25-18 lead midway through the half. The visitors opened up as much as a 15-poinl lead d uring the second stanza, but struggled with - - turnovers on four straight nES possessions midwav

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Wayne Academy led by the final 20 minutes, while • 1 ~ after the first h~lf and connecting on 22-of-29 p•cked up ~ :oad wm over attempts from the free Lamar ~hnstlan. throw line. Katt:na Lofto~ scored a Josh Luckett paced the game-h•gh 13 pomts_to p~ce Warriors with 14 points ~he Lady Jaguar~. ""ho ' tmoroved to 15-3.