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~ww.wmstoncountyJO~ ~com Expectations high as ECCC softball opens season February 4

Expectations are high, and so is the preseason ranking as the East Central Community College Lady Diamond Warriors open their 2016 softball season Thursday, Feb. 4, against Alabama Southern Community College at the

softball complex on the Decatur campus. Game times are 2 and 4 p.m. The East Central softball team, coming off one its best seasons in program history, is ranked No. 2 in the 2016 National Junior College Athletic Association vreses:i

ranked in the top 20 of the final NJCAA poll. Fourth-year Head Coach Kristin Chaney said that if her team is fortunate enough to make it back to the nation al tournament this season, they would like to win it all this time.

son Division IT softball 1·ank ings released Jan. 27. The 2015 Lady Diamond Warriors finished 48-14 and runner-up in the 16-team, double elimination NJCAA Division II Softball National Championship Tournament, thP h1PhP~t.-ever finish for the

college's softball program. The team also finished sec ond in the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges State Tournament and the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament. Eleven ofthe team's 14losses last season came to teams