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8A-The Newton Record, Uecember IS .
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ECJC Men's Invitational
Tournament
East Central Junior College
Warriors hosted a Men's Invita–
tional Tournament on the Decatur
campus 'Nov. 22 and Nov. 23 and
were the winners by defeating
Jones Junior College 101-98 in the
finals.
In the opening game on Monday
evening Jon;s defeated East
Mississippi 55-49. High scorer for
that game was Hus.,and of Jones
with 14 points. East Central won
decisively over Clarke College 97-80
in their first game to assure
partjcipation in the fmals. East
Central's Joe Kennamer was high
scorer with 19 points followed by
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Ken Eiland with 13, Robert
Gilliland with 12. Palma Jones with
11. Eddie Griffin with 10. and
Stanley Di)(on with 10. Hawkins
was high scorer for Clarke with 19
points.
East Mississippi defeated Clarke
in the consolation game on Tuesday
evening with a 83-75 win. H igh
scorer for East Mississippi was
Anderson with 22 points and
Hawkins was the high scorer for
Clarke with 16. This win put East
MiSSISSippi in third place for the
tournament.
The final game of the tournament
was a thriller with East Central
topping Jones 101-98 in five
overtimes. Joe Kennamer scored 28
points in this game, the third game
in which he has scored 28 points
and his highest score for the
season. Three other Warrior
players had double figure scores,
Leon Jackson hittinj;t 22. Palma
~nes
with 23, and Donald Clayton
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-with 10. Darby was high scorer for
Jones with 26 points.
Both East Central men 's and
women's teams will travel to
Meridian on Dec. 11 for a pair of
games but will not see any action
over the holidays. They will host
East Mississippi for the first game
of the spring semester on J an. 4.
Game time is 6:30 p.m. for the
women's game with the men' s
game to follow.