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By ANDY CLAY
Star Sports Writer
SCOOBA - Basketball is a team sport.
The East Mississippi Junior College Lady
Lions found that out the hard way here
Thursday night, dropping a
90--89
decision to
visiting East Central, despite a 4G-point per–
formance from former Meridian High stan–
dout Sharon Scott.
F r eshman Tanya Williamson of
Philadelphia, one of five ECJC players to
score in double figures, grabbed a loose ball
and tossed in the winning bucket with just
one second left in the game.
" I reckon it's just determination," Lady
Warrior coach Lucille Wood said after wat–
ching her team win its second straight one–
point game. "Early in the season, you want
close games, but it'd be nice to have a
breather sometime.
"Toward the end, we finally got some help
inside. Our guards started sagging in and
helping out on the big girls. There's no sense
in it <Scott's
40
points) . Somebody ought to
be able to play better defense than that.
" You're always fortunate to win on the
road, especially against a good team."
East Central led the entire first half. but
could never pull away.
The Lady Warrior's biggest lead of
th~
game was
10
points
(58-48)
early in the se–
cond half on a Mattie Burnside layup.
Finally, Scott and EMJC center Sherry
Dansby combined to outscore East Central
15--8
and give the Lady Lions their first lead
of the night at 69-68 with 7:30 left in the
game.
However, Earlene Moore converted a
three-point play to start a
9-2
ECJC spurt
that put the visitors up
77-71
with six minutes
left in the game.
EMJC pulled to within one at 80-79 on a '
Bridget Winston bucket, but the Lady Lions
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turned the ball over the next two times down
court.
Leading
82-81
ECJ C reeled off six
st_raig~t
points, only to have
S~ott
respond w1th
s~x
straight for EMJC. W1th 45 seconds left m
the game, East Central led
88-87.
Dansby
tool{
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ball inside and scored
with
18
seconds left to give EMJC an
89-88
lead.
East Central brought the ball down and
missed three shots before Williamson bank-
ed the wirining basket off the glass.
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Mattie Burnside paced the Lady WarriOrs
with 26 p9ints while Coleman added
18,
Angie
Wash
15,
Williamson
12
and Moore
10.
After ,Scott Dansby added
18
points and
Winston 12 for EMJC.
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In men's action East Central took a 63-52
victory to complete the sweep.
The Warriors controlled the first half,
leading 35-22 at intermission and held off a
late Lion rally to win.
Early in the second half, EMJC went on a
14-2
scoring spurt that closed the gap to
41-40
with
12
minutes left in the game.
Five unanswered points by ECJC gave the
Warriors a 53-44 lead and reserve Donald
Clayton hit three buckets in a one minute
span to ice the win.
"We had two slumps there," said :E:CJC
coach Steve Rives, whose teams moves to
2-0.
'We started off with a bang and then
slumped.
"Our·defense was great late in the game
and the offense did a good job of getting us
the good shots."
Joe Kennamer led the Warriors with
14
points while teammates Leon Jackson had
12
and Robert Gilliland
10.
Larry Anderson led EMJC with
16
points
while Randy Cole, Lester Grace and Michael
Gibb had
10
points each.
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