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Gulf Coast ·still Unbeaten

BY l 'nited Press lntemational Gulf Coast, the defending state junior college champion, cruised to an easy 23-3 victory ~over East Mississippi at Colum– bus Saturday night to remain undefeated on the 1981 season. Quarterback Zach Nelson tossed a pair of touchdown passes to lead Gulf Coast to the \'ictorv. Gulf Coast is now 3-0. Pearl River. 2-0-1, trounced winless Coahoma 54-0 in Poplar– ville as Llo} d Henry rushed for 127 yards on just five carr ies. Coahoma is 0-3. Quarterback Simmie Cooley . ran for one touchdown and 'Pass– ed for another. while Elijah Bell returned a kickoff 100 vards to lead Jones to a 47-21 victory over Northeast Saturday night. Mike l\loore's 34-yard pass in– terception return for a touchdown got Jones on the board early and the Bobcats

never looked back. Jones IS 2-0-1. while Northeast 1s 1 2 Three players scored for Copiah-Lincoln to lead the Wol\'es to a 21-13 \'ictorv O\'er Holmes. · Co-Lin, 2-1. scored on a four– yard run by Charles Tra\ ill ion. a one-yard plunge by Kendall Covington and a 23-yard scamper by Brian Fme. Holmes. 2-1. got its scores on two touchdown pass receptions by Roger Totten In AOrth Division actiOn Thursday night. Delta defeated previously unbeaten Itawamba 35-14. Delta and Itawamba are both 2-1 ~orthwest downed East Cen– tral 26-7 Thursday night. Both are 1-2. And in South Di\·isJOn play Thursday Southwest nipped Hinds 1-1-13. Southwest is 1-2. v. bile Hinds faUs to 0-3.

Monday, September 21, 19Sl

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