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MORE INFORMATION MCC entered Thursday's game without one of its top performers, Londyn Thomas, who was sick. game closely, then get in the game and do thing:. the person in front of me wasn't doing, and I just try to be a leader on the floor. We just have to stick to teamwork and continue play defense. We need to keep teams off the boards, because that's where sometimes struggle." Meridian (12-6, 4-3) entered the game without one of its top performers, Londyn Thomas. who was sick. Kristen Dixon-McBeath started in her place and recorded 10 points lo go along with 11 rebounds, six assists and four blocked shots. "The more she works hard in prac– tice, the more opportunity she's going to get to play," Meridian coach Jocelyn McGilberry said. "I wish she would have worked this hard the first half (of the year)." Meanwhile, Tytianna Hall led all scorers with 34 points in addition to pulling down eight rebounds. "She's showed up the last three games," McGilberry said. "She played excellent. She knows how to get to the rim and the free throw line." McGilberry said her team must demonstrate a better effort in defensive transition when her squad faces Missis– sippi Gulf CoastMonday "You can't imagine how much we work on it," she said. "We work on it every day in practice. It's about repeti– tion (foday) we're going to go over the -.ame thing: transition defense." East Central will seek to keep their momentum going strong when it travels to Jones County Monday. 'They are thinking just like we are: You have to-take care of your home court," Porter said. "Any time you can go and steal a road game, you consider yourself lucky. But we've been pretty good on the road. We're undefeated on the road, and we're looking to keep that up."

Meridian will look to reverse its for– tune Monday when it hosts Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. "It's all about us correcting the mis– takes that we made (Thursday," Drake said. "We've lost games previously because we didn't give 100-percent effort. We played with energy and effort (Thursday), and we just have to con– tinue to do that." Meanwhile, ECCC travels to South Division leader Jqnes County Junior College Monday night. "We're still trying to get into the state tournament," Thompson said. "Give CTCJC) credit, they are playing a lot of good basketball. If we can go over there and play with poise, then I think we have a chance to win." For Meridian, Frankie Collins and Devontae Brewser each scored 14 points, while Brandon Daniels tallied 12. Clinging to a one-point advantage with 40-seconds remaining, East Central Community College executed an out of bounds play to perfection as Shakerya Morrison cut back door towards the goal for a layup. From there, the Lady Warriors con– nected on five of their final six free throw attempts to escape with a 90-87 win over Me ridian Community College. "Sliaelcrya is really athletic, and it's a lob play for her," East Central coach Crandal Porter said "She's an awesome leaper. so we try to get the pass up above everybody and let her go up and "et it." East Central (15-2. 0-..;) was led offen– sively by J ale~ia Jones who .;core a team-high 21 p.>inr" Ta.;hi-Ana Thompson came off the bench to reg– ister 18 points in addition to grabbing four rebounds and picking up three steals. "This was big because it puts us in third place (in the South Division)," Thompson said. "I try to watch the ECCC HANGS ON

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