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Hosts Win Pair
roared back.
EM Coach Burns
After Loss At EC
With just over a minute to
play rese r ve gua r d Mary
Roeb'uck hit a pair of free tosses.
Seconds later Marilyn Peterson
hit the front end of a
one-an~-one
to make the score
101-99
wtth
35
seconds left
to
play.
In the closing seconds, each
By Andy Clay
The Meridian Star
DECATUR - Don Cunn–
ingham isn't usa!ly one to com–
plain about officiating.
But the past two days have not
been usual.
Cunningham's East Mississip–
pi Junior College Lady Lions
had their dormitory burn Mon–
day night with all the uniforms
inside. Playing in new physical
education uniforms, they drop–
ped
a
101-99
double overtime
decision to host East Central.
" A real bad call on a charging
really hurt us," Cunningham
said.
" U
the correct call had
been made, we' d have won the
game. The official called a
char ge on Yoke <Sharon Scott)
in the first overtime and that
fouled her out.
" It
<officiating) has been bad
all year, but it was worse
tonight."
"We had so many kids foul out
(five) it was hard to get five kids
in there who bad played as a
team," Cunningham said.
" I was pleased I got to play as
many girls as
I
did and they all
played
wen ,••
East Central
coach Lucille Wood sa id .
"Everybody
did
their job.
team turned the ba ll over once
"We're just glad to win the and each missed one-and-one op–
first game after the break.
I
portunities. However , the Lady
think it'll give us a
boost. "
Lions had one last chance to wm
" I was pleased with (Melody) it with three seconds
on
th;
Parker.
It
was the first time clock, but Buckhalter couldn
t
she's played (because of a knee handle the inbounds pass from
injury)."
Cindy Ducksworth.
Scott hit a pair of one-and-one
free throws with
44
seconds left
in regulation time
to
tie the
s core at
79 -79 .
Briddgett
Winstead's 25-footer bounced off
the rim with two seconds left as
the game went into overtime.
The two teams swapped points
in the first five-minute over–
time, with neither team leading
by more than three points.
Following the charging call on
Scott, Mattie Burnside hit both
ends of a one-and-one to give
ECJC a
90-88
lead. However,
Mattie Buckhalter hit a basket
with four seconds left in the
overtime to tie the score at
90-90.
The Lady Lions entered the se–
cond overtime with four players
having fouled out to one for East
Central.
The Lady Warriors built a
five-point lead midway through
the period at
101-96
on Dorothy
Jackson's basket, but EMJC
See •
BURNS, Page 3D
Burnside paced
Eas~ Centr~l.
7-7
overall, with
35
pomts while
P am Coleman added
24
and
St,ephanie Townsend
10.
Scott led the
7-4
Lady Lions
with
30
points and Buckhalter
added
18,
Gloria Perry
17
and
Winstead
12.
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In the men's game, E ast Cen-
tral
took a
72-69
decision.
"Both teams were pretty bad
out of shape," said
~CJC coa~h
Steve Rives. "We h1t some b1g
shots down the stretch. <Joe)
Kenn a m e r a n d <Robert)
Gilliland did a good job, but we
liked to have killed ourselves on
the free throw line. We missed
some that would've made it
easy.
When we finally got the lead
and made them play a man-to–
man we got some easy baskets
inside and the lead went up. We
were our own worst enemy at
times. We wanted to score
too
quickly when we needed to
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bit
a parr
throws to close
the
2ap
but Gilliland
put
the
"t!ame.,.
with a
pair
of rree
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eight seconds lest m
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