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East Central Community College's Miracle Rushing battles on the floor against East Mississippi Community Col lege's Coco Hobson Tuesday night in Decatur.

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10 rebounds for the Lady

Lions in control from the

The Lions extended

had 11 for the Lion. Forward Derrick Dan dridge of White Station Tenn.) and guard Ravion Henry of Leake Central High School both had 15 The East Central men and women return to action Thursday when at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. East Mississippi is back home to face Meridian Community College Thursday. Women's action begins at 5:30 p.m., and the men's game follows at 7:30 p.m. Brackeen-Wood Gymna-

Lions. Camy Jones added opening tip as they swept their lead to 23 with 12:46

13 points and 11

the season series from

to go in the gamc.111ree

rebounds, while Tianna

the East Central Warriors times East Central cut the High School (Memphis,

Germain tallied 11 points. with an 88-71 win.

lead lo 10 points, the latest with 3:31 to play. The physical contest saw

East Mississippi

The Lions, who won the first meeting back on Nov. 12 73-64, improved to 9-1 on the year. The

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turned the ball over 18 times in the first halfand 24 times for the game, to

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four technical fouls called to lead East Central.

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East Mississippi

The learns met in

Jahyde Gardiner, a 6-foot- they host Baton Rouge 6 forward out of Philadel- Community College in

November on the campus scored the first eight

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of East Mississippi in Scooba, with the Lady Lions winning 84-75. The East Central Lady Warriors improved to 8-2 on the season with the

points of the game and led by as many as 22 in a first half where they shot 65 percent from the floor to East Central's 37 per- cent The closest the War- contest was three min- utes into the game when

phia, Pa.. scored a game-

high 26 points to lead the sium in games that tip off

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Lions. He scored 29 points in the first meeting Nat Dixon scored 17 points for East Missis- sippi, and Anterio McK- ines, Juan Davis Jr. and Daniel Simmons each of the season.

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win. The East Mississippi riors would come in the

Lady Lions fell to 6-2.

ln the nightcap, it was

the East Mississippi

they trailed 8-3.