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ECCC Lady Warriors end season with 44-] A return trip to the national softball cham pionship tournament wasn't in the cards for No. 11 East Central Community College as the Lady Diamond Warriors were eliminat ed May 7 from the 2016 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 23 Softball Tournament played on the campus of LSU Eunice in Eunice, La. The tournament fea tured four of the top 11 teams in the most recent NJCAA Division II Softball Top 20. The Lady Diamond Warriors didn't go down without a fight, howev er. After losing their first game of Region 23 play Friday, May 6, to MACJC State Champion and No. 5 ranked Jones County Junior College 3-2, East Central came back Saturday afternoon to defeat No. 3 Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College 7-3 in an elimi nation game. The ECCC win elimi nated Gulf Coast an put the Lady Diamo~ Warriors in anoth elimination game la Saturday aftemoo~ against No. 1 LSU Eunice, won by th Lady Bengals 8-4. East Central finishe , its season with a 44-1

.1 record record. Last season, the Lady_ Dianiond W an;iors finished sec ond m the Region 23 Tournament and a~v~ced to the NJCAA DiVIs1on II Softball ~ampionshlp in Clinton where they also finished second.

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