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15 Wednesday, March 04, 2015 ECCC Squads Prepare for Region 23 Basketball Tourney ]

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62 in first-round action ofthe state tournament. Other first round games on Wednesday will be Northeast Mississippi vs. Holmes at noon, Pearl River vs. Baton Rouge at 6 p.m. and East Mississippi vs. Southern-Shreveport (Louisiana) at 8 p.m. The East Central/Jones wmner plays the Holmes/Northeast win– ner at noon on Friday, while the Pearl River/Baton Rouge win– ner will face the East Mississippi/Southern- Shreveport winner at 2 p.m.The championship game will be at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The Lady Warriors are the Mississippi number three seed and begin first-round action by taking on five seed Itawamba Community College at Noon Thursday.

The East Central women hold a 20-5 record under third-year head coach Crandal Porter after falling to l: Meridian Community r College 79-77 in the r semi-finals of the MAC.JC State Tourney. ~ Itawamba (20-4) was defeated by Meridian P 76-7 4 in the opening t round of the state tour- v nament. a Other matchups m first-round women 1 s b action Thursday include c Co-Lin and Holmes at 2 l p.m., Meridian and t Northwest at 6 p.m. and 1 Baton Rouge (La.) and 1 Jones at 8 p.m. The East Central/Itawamba win– ner plays the Co– Lin/Holmes winner at 6 p.m. on Friday. The winner of the Meridian/Northwest match-up will face the Baton Rouge/Jones win– ner at 8 p.m.

Community College basketball squads have qualified to compete in the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament scheduled March 4-7, 2015, at Mississippi College in Clinton. The East Central men quailed for the single elimination event as the number seven seed and begin first-round action by talring on number two seed Jones County Junior College at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 4. The Warriors hold a 13-12 overall mark under second-year head coach Robert Thompson. They were defeated 62-59 by Holmes Community College in first-round action of the MAC.JC State Tournament. The Bobcats are 18-4 after falling to

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