2018-19 East Central Women's Basketball News
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ECCC’s Whitney Waters Signs with SUNO Basketball
May 15, 2019East Central Community College sophomore forward Whitney Waters has signed a National Letter of Intent to continue her basketball career next year at Southern University at New Orleans. -
ECCC Women's Basketball Hosting 4 Summer Camps
May 07, 2019The East Central Community College women?s basketball program is sponsoring four camps this summer in Brackeen-Wood Gym on the campus in Decatur.
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ECCC Women's Basketball Players Honored at Banquet
April 29, 2019Several East Central Community College student-athletes received honors during the college’s 2019 Spring Sports Awards Banquet held recently in Mabry Cafeteria on the campus in Decatur.
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3 ECCC Women's Basketball Players to Continue Careers
April 25, 2019Three sophomore members of the East Central Community College women?s basketball team will continue their careers next season at four-year colleges and universities.
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3 Lady Warriors Earn All-State Basketball Honors
April 15, 2019The East Central Community College Lady Warriors had three players earn All-State honors for their play in the 2018-19 season, including freshman guard Jariyah Covington who was voted Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges First Team All-State.
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ECCC Women's Basketball to Hold Tryout April 11
March 26, 2019The East Central Community College women's basketball team will hold a tryout from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, in Brackeen-Wood Gym on the campus in Decatur.
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ECCC to Host 2019 MACJC All-Star Basketball Games
March 26, 2019East Central Community College is once again the host site for the annual Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges All-Star Basketball contests.
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Wraggs Named to Region 23 All-Tournament Team
March 09, 2019East Central Community College sophomore forward Diamond Wraggs has been named to the 2019 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 23 Basketball All-Tournament Team.
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Lady Warriors Season Ends with Loss in Region 23 Tourney
March 06, 2019The Itawamba Lady Indians used a dominant fourth period to pull away from East Central Community College and end the Lady Warriors season with a 78-68 win in the 2019 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 23 Basketball Tournament Tuesday, March 5, at A.E. Wood Coliseum on the Mississippi College campus in Clinton.
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ECCC Basketball Teams Set for Region 23 Tournament
March 01, 2019The East Central Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams both earned invitations to the 2019 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 23 Tournament to be played March 5-9 at A.E. Wood Coliseum on the Mississippi College campus in Clinton.
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Lady Warriors Top Southwest in Regular Season Finale
February 22, 2019A heartbreaking, last-second loss to No. 9 Pearl River back on Feb. 4 left the East Central Community College Warriors with a 1-8 record in the MACJC South Division and little chance of qualifying for postseason play and a trip to the state basketball tournament.
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Lady Warriors Get 76-59 Sophomore Night Win Over Hinds
February 19, 2019The East Central Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams both moved a step closer to postseason play with big wins over Hinds Community College in the final home games of the season in Bracken-Wood Gym in Decatur Monday, Feb. 18.
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Lady Warriors Complete Season Sweep of Meridian
February 15, 2019The East Central Community College basketball teams kept their playoffs hopes alive as they went on the road and swept MACJC South Division opponent Meridian in action Thursday, Feb. 14, at Graham Coliseum in The Queen City.
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Lady Warriors Upset No. 5 Jones Lady Bobcats 74-71
February 12, 2019The Jones College men’s and women’s basketball teams came into Brackeen-Wood Gym in Decatur with a combined record of 33-5 overall and 19-1 in MACJC South Division play, but each left with a blemish to their record as the East Central Community College Lady Warriors and Warriors both pulled upsets Monday, Feb. 11.
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Lady Warriors Drop 70-60 Decision at Co-Lin
February 08, 2019After coming up on the short end of a lot of close basketball games of late, the East Central Community College Warriors finally won a close one with a 77-72 victory over the Copiah-Lincoln Wolves Thursday, Feb. 7. The East Central Lady Warriors dropped their second straight game in the opener 70-60 to the Lady Wolves.
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Lady Warriors Drop 5-Point Decision at Pearl River
February 05, 2019A desperation shot at the buzzer that bounced off the rim was all that kept the East Central Community College Warriors from handing the No. 9 ranked Pearl River Wildcats their first defeat of the season in basketball action Monday, Feb. 4. The ECCC Lady Warriors also fell, losing 61-56 to the PRCC Lady Wildcats at Marvin R. White Coliseum in Poplarville.
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Lady Warriors Win 4th Straight 76-72 Over Gulf Coast
February 01, 2019The East Central Community College Lady Warriors avenged one of their three losses this season with a hard-fought 76-72 win over the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Lady Bulldogs in basketball action Thursday, Jan. 31, at Brackeen-Wood Gym on the ECCC campus in Decatur. In the men’s action, the Gulf Coast Bulldogs pulled out a 72-65 win over the Warriors.
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Win Over Southwest is 3rd Straight for Lady Warriors
January 29, 2019The East Central Community College men’s basketball team finally put an end to a five-game losing streak, while the ECCC women extended their winning streak to three games as the Warriors and Lady Warriors swept the visitors from Southwest Mississippi Community College in action Monday, Jan. 28, in Brackeen-Wood Gym in Decatur.
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Lady Warriors Win Second Straight 77-44 at Hinds
January 25, 2019The East Central Community College Lady Warriors jumped on the Hinds Lady Bulldogs early and never let up in posting a 77-44 MACJC South Division win Thursday, Jan. 24, at J.D. Boyd Gym in Utica. In the men’s action, a furious second-half comeback by the ECCC Warriors fell two points short as the Hinds Bulldogs picked up a 78-76 win.
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Lady Warriors Snap 2-Game Skid With Win Over Meridian
January 23, 2019The East Central Community College Lady Warriors broke a two-game losing streak with a crucial 84-64 MACJC South Division win over the visiting Meridian Community College Lady Eagles Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Brackeen-Wood Gym in Decatur. In the nightcap, the ECCC Warriors dropped their fourth straight game in a 79-63 loss to the MCC Eagles.
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No. 8 Jones Defeats Lady Warriors in South Division Game
January 19, 2019A last-second jumper by Jones College’s Winceton Edwards sent the game to overtime and the Bobcats would eventually pull out a 71-69 win over the East Central Community College Warriors in basketball action Thursday, Jan. 17, in A.B. Howard Gymnasium in Ellisville. The No. 8 ranked Jones Lady Bobcats scored an 84-56 win over the ECCC Lady Warriors in the first game of the evening.
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Comeback Falls Short For Lady Warriors vs. Co-Lin
January 15, 2019The teams from Copiah-Lincoln came into Brackeen-Wood Gym in Decatur and left with a pair of basketball wins over East Central Community College in MACJC South Division action Monday, Jan. 14.
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Turner Powers Lady Warriors to OT Win Over Pearl River
January 11, 2019Sophomore forward Sharan Turner scored seven of her game-high 17 points in overtime to power the East Central Community College Lady Warriors to a 75-67 win over the Pearl River Lady Wildcats in MACJC South Division basketball action Jan. 10 in Brackeen-Wood Gym in Decatur. The No. 17 ranked Pearl River men overpowered the Warriors in the second game with a 99-66 win.
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Covington Helps Lady Warriors Hold Off EMCC Lady Lions
January 09, 2019The East Central Community College Lady Warriors and Warriors opened 2019 in style with a basketball sweep of home-standing East Mississippi in games played Tuesday, Jan. 8, in Keyes T. Currie Gymnasium in Scooba.
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Lady Warriors Close Out 2018 With Win at Delgado
December 16, 2018The East Central Community College Lady Warriors and Warriors closed out the 2018 portion of their basketball seasons with a split against Delgado Community College in doubleheader action Thursday, Dec. 13. The games were played at Dillard University in New Orleans.
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Big Second Half Lifts Lady Warriors Over Coahoma
December 09, 2018The East Central Community College Lady Warriors outscored the Coahoma Lady Tigers by 20 in the final two periods to overcome a halftime deficit and grab a win, while the ECCC Warriors lost a heartbreaker to the Coahoma Tigers on a buzzer-beating three-pointer in MACJC non-division action at the Pinnacle on the Coahoma campus in Clarksdale Saturday, Dec. 8.
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Lady Warriors Drop First Game of Season at Gulf Coast
December 04, 2018The East Central Community College basketball teams opened MACJC South Division play Dec. 3 with a couple of tough road losses to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the Weathers-Wentzell Center on the MGCCC campus in Perkinston.
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Lady Warriors Move to 6-0 With Win over Delgado
November 27, 2018The East Central Community College basketball teams remained perfect on the 2018-19 season with a home-court sweep of Delgado Community College Monday, Nov. 26, in Brackeen-Wood Gym on the campus in Decatur.
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Lady Warriors Go 2-0 in EC Basketball Classic
November 21, 2018The East Central Community College basketball teams weren’t kind to their visitors in the annual EC Classic Thanksgiving week tournament held on the campus in Decatur as the Lady Warriors and Warriors went undefeated in the two-day event Nov. 19-20.
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Lady Warriors Win Big Over Visiting Bishop State 100-48
November 13, 2018The East Central Community College Lady Warriors and Warriors kept their unbeaten basketball seasons in intact with a sweep over the visiting Bishop State Community College teams out of Mobile, Ala., Monday, Nov. 12, in Brackeen-Wood Gym on the campus in Decatur.
