Football

September 30, 2016

The East Central Community College football team held No. 18 Copiah-Lincoln Community College in check for three full quarters, before a fourth quarter surge by the Wolves resulted in a 34-23 win over the Warriors in Stone Stadium in Wesson Thursday, Sept. 29.

East Central led 23-7 in the fourth quarter before the Co-Lin Wolves scored the last 27 points of the game to pull out the win against the Warriors.

September 29, 2016

September 23, 2016

The East Central Community College Warrior football team ended a 13-game losing-streak to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Bulldogs with a 42-28 victory in Bailey Stadium in Decatur Thursday, Sept. 22.

The last time ECCC beat Gulf Coast was in 2002 with a 28-21 win over the Bulldogs.

September 22, 2016

September 20, 2016

East Central Community College defensive back Juwon Hayes-Keyes has been named the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges Football Defensive Player of the Week for his play against Pearl River Community College Thursday, Sept. 15.

September 15, 2016

The East Central Community College football team brought home its first win of the season after traveling to Poplarville Sept. 15 to take on the Pearl River Community College Wildcats in a MACJC South Division opener.

The Warriors pulled out a 35-21 victory over the Wildcats by taking advantage of turnovers.

Sophomore defensive back Juwon Hayes-Keyes of Taylorsville High School picked off three Pearl River passes during the contest.

September 9, 2016

Northeast Mississippi Community College found the end-zone with 28 seconds left in the ballgame to pull out a 24-21 win against the East Central Community College in football action Thursday, Sept. 8, in Bailey Stadium on the Decatur campus.

For the second straight week the Warriors faced a back and forth battle.

Northeast began the scoring with a 37-yard field goal to go up 3-0 with 5:30 left in the first quarter.

The East Central Community College Warrior football team lost a hard-fought ballgame in front of a standing room only crowd during “Black-Out” night at Bailey Stadium Sept. 1 on the Decatur campus.

The Warriors scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to close the gap, but eventually fell to the Holmes Community College Bulldogs 48-40 during opening week of Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges play.