2010

_EC women stay in playoff chase Two wins on the hard– EC held a 46-35 advan-

tage at halftime. Hinds

wood last \\ eek kept postsea– !>On hopes alive for the Lady Warriors of East Central Community from College. combined The Lady W . , 12 9 reports arnors. - • knocked ofT Hinds (69-65) and Gulf Coast (68-66). The top four teams in each division qualify for the MACJC State Tournament, scheduled Feb. 22-25 and hosted by the North Division women\ winner. I'he EC men lost to Hinds (86-65) and Gulf Coast (89- 65) to drop to 5-16. fo.C wraps up the regular season at home Thursday agamst Jones. EC women 69 Hinds 65 EC improved to 11-9 overall and 3-6 in the MACJC South D1vis10n with the Feb 8 win at Utica. Sophomore guard Danielle Cole of Philadel– phia led EC' with 16 points. Also scoring were Yolanda Jones with 14. Shantel Neely with I 0. Oemetna Slocum with mne. Hannah Lee with six, and S1erra Croff of Newton County and Bianca Thomas ofSebastopol w1th four each. Ktana McCarty had 18 points to lead Hinds. 6-15.

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EC men 65 The Wamors contmued their downward slide. falling by 21 points to the Bulldogs at Utica. Jonathan McLenden, a 6- 7 freshman forward from Houston. Texas. pumped in 20 points to lead the Warriors, who dropped to 5- 15 and 1-8. Also scoring were Elijah Tanksley and Keondre Hodges with I 0 each, Kenneth Thomas with eight, Ste\e Edward.; with seven, and Antonio Grace with five Mark Wilkerson had 16 points to lead Hmds, which improved to 16-5 ~nd 6-3. Hinds led 37-26 at half- time EC women 68 Gulf Coast 66 Hannah Lee's 3-point shot from the top of the key with 11.7 seconds remaimng helped propel the Lady Warriors to a stunning 68-66 win over visiting Mississippi Gulf Coast Thursday n1ght rn Decatur. With the key MACJC South D1vision victory, EC's women improved to 12-9 overall and more importantly Continued on 58... See Chase...

Chase... Continued from 48... 4-6 in lea!,rue action and kept alive their playoff hopes. The Lady Bulldogs dropped to 8-16 and 4-7 The two teams are battling for fourth place in the division. Following Lee's trey - her th1rd of the evening - teammate Oanielle Cole was fouled after taking posses– sion on a Gulf Coast turnover, and made the ftrst of two free throw attempts with 8 9 seconds remaining. Lee, a Leake Academy product, led EC w1th 17 points and seven rebounds. Her 3-pointer with 22 sec– onds left cut the Gulf Coast

lead to 65-64.

Cole was the sccond-lead– mg scorer with 16 points. Other point makers were Qumtentte Odom with eight and Shanequa Bufkin with six Brooke Eccles pumped in 25 pomts to lead Gulf Coast. rC tra1led 31-27 at half- time. Gulf Coast 89 EC men 65 The VISiting Bulldogs rolled to an easy thumping of EC, which fell to 5-16 and l-9. Kenneth lbomas led EC with 23 points. Steve Edwards or Newton had 14. Travis Rasco had 2X pomts to lead GulfCoast, 16- 9 and 6 .S

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