Four East Central Community College Lady Warriors and one Warrior were named to the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges All-State basketball teams announced Monday, March 7, 2016.
Sophomore guard/forward Prince McDaniel out of Pascagoula High School was named to the MACJC Men’s All-State South Division Second Team.
McDaniel averaged a team-high of 14.9 points per game. He also averaged 4.4 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game.
The East Central Community College Lady Diamond Warriors swept a softball doubleheader from MACJC conference foe Coahoma Community College on Saturday, March 5, in Clarksdale.
ECCC improved its overall record to 18-3 and 2-2 in MACJC play.
In a high-scoring game one, the Lady Diamond Warriors won 13-0, with 10 of those runs coming in their first three at-bats.
ECCC put up three runs in the first and five in the second inning en route to the five inning, run-rule game.
The East Central Community College baseball team defeated Itawamba Community College in a doubleheader on Saturday, March 5, at the Clark/Gay Baseball Complex in Decatur.
The Diamond Warriors won 13-1 in the seven-inning game one win.
Two big innings propelled East Central in game one. ECCC took the early lead after scoring four runs in the bottom of the first inning. The Diamond Warriors then added six more runs in the fifth to push the lead to 10-0.
The East Central Community College Lady Warriors beat Marion Military Institute 6-3 in a tennis match played March 4 on the Decatur campus.
Results from the match are as follows:
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| Kalybriah Haskin goes up for two to help the Lady Warrior's comeback from behind. |
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| Samantha McCrimon |
East Central Community College’s women’s tennis team defeated Copiah-Lincoln Community College 5-4, while the men’s tennis team fell against the Wolves 3-6 Wednesday, March 2, in Decatur.
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| East Central sophomore pitcher Lacey Hill fires to the plate in the Lady Diamond Warriors game one loss to Jones County March 2. |
The East Central Community College Warriors began their spring golf season competing against 14 teams in the Mississippi College Invitational on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 29 and March 1, at the Lake Caroline Golf Club in Madison.
ECCC tied for 12th place overall, as one of only three community colleges in the tournament.
The Warriors two-day, three round total was 944.
East Central Community College’s Encore players will present their spring musical selection, “The Addams Family,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17, through Saturday, March 19, in the Vickers Fine Arts Auditorium on the Decatur campus.
Tickets are $10 and may be purchased by calling the college switchboard at 601-635-6215 or toll free 1-877-462-3222, ext. 215.
The event is being held as part of East Central’s 2015-16 Cultural Arts Series. Additional productions scheduled include:
April 11 – The Collegians, 7 p.m., Huff Auditorium, free admission
East Central Community College continues its Cultural Arts Series with a presentation by visual artist LeeReyna Lopez Leyva at 2:25 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in the Vickers Fine Arts Center on the Decatur campus.
