Union to host CMN charity event
A night ball tournament benefitting the Children’s Miracle Network sponsored by Miss University of Southern Mississippi Macken’Z Smith will be held Friday, June 14, beginning at 6 p.m.
Registration is at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $30 per person.
For more information, contact Jody Blount at 601-575-2626 or Susan Fox-Smith at 601-513-2638.
Lake youth football, cheer registration nears
The Lake Youth Football association is seeking youth football players and cheerleaders for the upcoming 2019 season.
The association is joining Areawide Youth Football Elite this year, which will reduce travel time as well as implementing 8-man tinymite teams. Anyone interested in playing for Lake Youth Football or if you know of anyone age 5-12 (no seventh graders) that would like to be a part of Lake Youth Football, please contact Robert Savell at 601.919.7924. If there’s no answer, leave a message or send a textn and he will get back to you as soon as possible.
ECCC hosting individual player camp June 23-25
The East Central Community College men’s basketball program is hosting a summer camp for individual players entering 8th through 12th grades June 23-25 in Brackeen-Wood Gym on the campus in Decatur.
The cost of the three-day, two-night camp is $160 for campers who stay overnight in an ECCC residence hall and $130 for commuters.
Camp check-in is from 2-3 p.m. on June 23 and checkout is 4 p.m. on June 25. Camp instructional hours are 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 23; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, June 24; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25.
To register online and view a list of items to bring to camp, visit https://www.eastcentralbasketballcamps.com/.
ECCC softball coaches named South Region Staff of the Year
First year East Central Community College head softball coach Eric Neel and assistant coach Emily Church have been named the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II South Region Coaching Staff of the Year by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
Neel and Church led the ECCC Lady Warriors to a 28-14 record, including 21-7 in Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges league play. East Central compiled a 13-game winning streak in April and finished the regular season ranked No. 14 in the NJCAA Division II Top 20.
The Lady Warriors, with only one sophomore and 14 freshmen on the roster, finished fourth in the 15-team MACJC league and qualified for the 2019 MACJC State Tournament.
“Coach Neel and Coach Church did an outstanding job of molding this group of almost entirely freshmen into one of the best teams in the state and country by the midpoint of the season, said Paul Nixon, ECCC’s director of athletics. “The team took some lumps early, playing mostly NCAA Division I programs in the fall and several NJCAA Division I schools in the preseason, but with the guidance and leadership from the coaches, the student-athletes came together and played some truly outstanding softball. Seeing firsthand how hard Coach Neel and Coach Church worked this past school year, it is gratifying to see them recognized by their coaches association for the team’s achievements this season.”
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