2013

WEEK OF

Lions roar past East Central, 59-0

SCOOBA -1lle) hearo them roar. 1he. · o. 5 Ea, fissi,sippi Community Co e :l.ioffi mounted a 59-0 shutout over the Ea5t Central CommunityCol– Je:ge Warriors onThurglay night in Scooba After the second blowout in two years, both coache~ agreed the once heated. hard fought rivalry has faded for the time being. "The rivalry is a regional rivalry and we don't play them ever year," EMCC bead coach BuddyStephens s.'lid "We want to win every game, butyou always want to agajnst your neighbor. ltls 0 just kind oftheway it is ... but because we in different leagues, the rivalry isn't there. 11 "The rivalry isn't here, 11 first year ECCC head coach Ken Karcher said. Right out ofthe gates, EastMississippi proved to themselves, fans and the visitors why they are nationally ranked, controlling the ball almost entirely throughout the 60 minutes. ''Wegot some guys tired, which was good," Stephens said. '"Theyneed to see that, 'Hey, we need to work on our condi– tioning during the week, we got to set a better tempo during theweek, so that we 59

Paula Merrttt 1 The Meridian Sw East Mississippi Community College's Preston Baker cuts between East Central Community College defenders Thursday night.

don't get tired." As if not getting a chance on offensive wasn't bad enough for EastCentral, East Mississippi kept them on their toes with multiple scorers and capitalized on War– rior mistakes. "'They are agood football team," Karcher said. "We knew coming in if we made mistakes, it'd be ugly and they were •

much more physical than us ... we have a longway to go. We knew that" Justa year after a 51-7lions win, it only took them 46 minutes to surpass the 2012 output on their way to their sixth shutout, largest win margin, and tying the third largest win total of the BuddyStephens era See EMCC on page B2 •

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