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Thursday, September 6, 2012

MEET AGAIN Longtime rivals play for first time since 2007

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shared a heated rivalry, playing each other every year. However, tonight will be the lin;t time since 2007 !hat the Warriors and Lion have lined up on the field against one another. Ander on s:~id he expects a spirited crowd and a packed stadium as the two teams renew the rivalry. "I expect it to be great," Anderson said. "The schools are an hour apart and our crowd is great, their crowd i~ great I lhink it is going to be fun, and f'm gl;id we are getting to host it.· Any time you host the No.1 team in the country, the "-takes are high. However, for Kemper County twms Steffon and Steven Fuller, the game against their former hometown team provides extra moti– vation. After spending their first year at EMCC the brothers have now enrolled at East Central and will look to take down their former school. "We went to abnost every game when we were m high school," Steven Fuller said. ''When we got there, they gave us our first opportunity to play col– lege ball even though lhings didn't work out there. "Jf we win, it will be real big. Just coming from tht>re and knowing the coaching staff like I do. I 1lon't want to say-pay back, but it would be a really big win for us." Coaches aren't the only ones the two brother / want to impress. Steffon Fuller said he has been \\ trading some good-natured tra ·b talk with his former teammates. "I've got friends and teammates there," he said. "There is a lot oflittle trash talk going on. They try ro ride it pretty good. and I try to get right back at them.•

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East Central will look for its seventh traighl win over EMCC as the Warriors hold a 35-24-4 · edge in the overall series between tl1e two teams. ESHOBA DEMOCRAT-----– "It's a once in a lifetime chance to get to play the

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