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ECJC Rallies
To
Salvage Tie At Pearl River
By
The Associated Press
East Central Junior College
is
still undefeated. But its
record
is
perfect no more.
East Central had to come from behind Saturday to tie
Pearl River
2~24
in a Mississippi Junior College game. Two
fourth-period touchdowns saved East Central,
5-0-1,
from
an upset at the hands of host Pearl River.
Earlier. L.C. Hopkins and Scott Senner had scored to
gi~e
Pearl River a
24-10
lead. But in the fourth penod, Dav1d
Pleasant threw touchdown passes of
43
yards 'to David
Gillespie and one of
17
yards to Victor Warnsley.
In other games, East MissiSsippi (2-4) lost
55-~
a.t
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Coast, Northwest turned back Coahoma
60-0,
M1sslss1pp1
Delta defeated Holmes
14-o,
Northeast edged ltawama
12-11,
Jones
beat
Southwest
34-14,
and Humphreys defeated
Shaw
22-14.
Reuben Agnew scored three times for Northwest as it
burned Coahoma in a game at Clarksdale.
Lee
Dale Grays and Elbert Jones scored the two
touchdowns for Holmes in its win over Mississippi Delta.
Darryl Rogers and Vonnie Howard scored the winning
touchdowns for Northeast. Ittawamba combined a
touchdown, a 2-pointer after, and a field goal for its 11
points, but fell one short.
.
.
Jones had little trouble turnmg back Southwest runmng
up
'l7
points in the first three quarters to only 7 for
Southwest.
Humphreys County put over
14
points in the final period
to
ice its game with Shaw. The scoring included a 95-yard
kickoff return for Humprheys by Roosevelt'King.
Monday, October 10,
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THE MERIDIAN STAR
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