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Press Release
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PEARL
RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
February 27, 2002
Lady 'Cats eye State
Tournament
face Itawamba Tuesday
at 8 p.m.
POPLARVILLE Pearl River Community College's Lady Wildcats enter
this
week's 2002 MACJC State
Tournament Tuesday, taking on host Itawamba in Fulton in
an 8 p.m. battle.
The tournament got underway Monday with men's first-round action, followed
by
women's first-round action
all day Tuesday. Semi-finals are set for Wednesday, while the women's and
men's championship games are set for Thursday at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., respectively.
The top four finishers in the North and South division's earned berths
to the annual event.
The Lady Wildcats wrapped up their regular season at 14-7 overall and 8-4
in
South Division play, are
the South's No. 3 seed, behind top-seeded Copiah-Lincoln (10-2) and No.
2 Southwest (9-3). East Central (7-5) is the South's No. 4 women's seed.
Southwest (10-2) is the
South men's top seed, followed by Mississippi Gulf Coast (8-4), Jones (7-5),
and Hinds (5-7).
Here is a schedule of the four-day tournament:
MONDAY (All Men's Games):
Mississippi Gulf Coast (South No. 2) vs. Northwest (North No. 3) 2 p.m.,
Holmes (North No. 2) vs. Jones (South No. 3) 4 p.m., Southwest (South No.
1) vs. Northeast (North No. 4) 6 p.m., Itawamba (North No. 1) vs. Hinds
(South No. 4) 8 p.m.
TUESDAY (All Women's Games):
East Central (South No. 4) vs. Northeast (North No. 1) 2 p.m., Southwest
(South No. 2) vs. Northwest (North No. 3) 4 p.m., Copiah-Lincoln
(South No. 1) vs. Holmes
(North No. 4) 6 p.m., Itawamba (North No. 2) vs. Pearl River
(South No. 3) 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: Northeast-East
Central women's winner vs. Southwest-Northwest winner 2 p.m., Southwest-Northeast
men's winner vs. Holmes-Jones winner 4 p.m., Co-Lin-Holmes women's winner
vs. Itawamba-Pearl River winner 6 p.m., Itawamba-Hinds men's winner vs.
Mississippi Gulf Coast-Northwest winner 8 p.m.
THURSDAY: Women's championship
6 p.m., men's championship 8 p.m.
The 2002 Region XXIII Tournament follows the next week (March 4-7) at
Mississippi College in Clinton.
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