2011

EC men capture win at Northwest Both East Central The Warriors

McWilliams and Inessa Adams scored six each, and Shana Ward had five. Tanecka Carey led Jones, 14- 4 and 7-1, with 33 points. Alondra Rivers added 21. Jones 105 EC men 89 The Warriors fell to 8-10 overall and 3-5 in division play with the January 31 loss at Ellisville. Kenneth Barlow had 26 points to the lead the Warrior s. Keondre Hodges of Newton scored 14, Kegan Houston and Jimmie Broomfield both bad 10, Bilal Kelly and Glenn Thomas both sco1·ed eight, Curtis Loving had seven, and Sbaravarus Wilson added six. EC trailed 45-32 at haUtime. Jones, 9-9 and 5-3, got 29 points from Brandon Givens, 25

from Kelvin Nixon, 23 from Derrious Gilmore, and 15 from Kadeem Fleming. Northwest 62 EC women 59 The Lady Warriors led Thursday's game a t Senatobia 59-57 with 1:14 remaining, but Northwest scored the final six points as EC dropped to 7-1 2. Ja'Monica Orton bad 18 points to lead EC. Deidre Hawkins had 13, Kurlysba BeU eight, and Quentinette Odom six. Brittan Patton and Erica Turner led Northwest, 7-11. with 13 points apiece. EC men 69 Northwest 64 Free throws made the differ- ence in EC's come-from-behind victc,ry over Northwes t Thursday night at Senatobia.

trailed throughout the non-division bat– tle until Keondre Hod!!e drained the second of two free throw attempts for a 65-6~ advantage with 1:27 remaining. K~gan Houston's jumper witb 19 seconds left stretched the lead to 67-64 and Hodg-es mad the game's final two points fro the charity strip with one se.' ond left to clinch the victory EC made 26-of-35 free thrO\\ in improving to 9-10 overall an s napping a five-game losin~ skid. Houston led the Warrior• with 17 points. Hodges tossed ir 16, while Kenneth Barlow anc Curtis Loving both had 11 Barlow also had eight rebounds Martrevious Sanders had 11 points to lead the Ra1gers, 9-10 EC trailed 30-22 at halftime.

Community College basketball teams suffered losses at Jones, while the EC men from came away with a combined victory at North- reports west Mississippi in lust week's basketball action. Jones 98 ECwomen 77 Ten EC turnovers in the first eight minutes helped stake Jones to a 54-37 halltime lead in the January 31 division win at Ellisville. The Lady Bobcats led by as many as 27 points in the opening half. Ja'Monica Orton scored 18 points to lead the Lady Warriors, whose record dipped to 7-11 overall and 2-6 in the division. Deidra Hawkins added 13, Annie BreweJ · had 12, Quentinette Odom 10, Jakiala

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