2015

Bender signs hoops scholarship

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East Central's Tynika Bender (seated, right) has slgned a national letter of intent to play basketball at Tougaloo College. Bender, a 5-4 point guard and product ofNew– ton High School, averaged 10.5 points, 5.4 assists and3.8 steals per game last season. She was selected to play in the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges AU-Star Game. Bender is shown with (seated, left) her mother, She1la Curry; and (standing, from left) ECCC Head Women's Basketball Coach Crandal Porter and Tougaloo HeadWomen's Basketball Coach Yolanda Cartlidge.

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