DECATUR – East Central Community College will once again serve as host site for the annual Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) All-Star Basketball contests.
The doubleheader will be held Friday, April 13, in Brackeen-Wood Gymnasium on the ECCC campus in Decatur. The North Division women and South Division women will face off at 5 p.m. and the North and South men's game will follow at 7 p.m.
The games will be live streamed at
www.eccc.edu/eccc-media.
Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for students.
Members of the North Division women's squad are Kaisah Lucky and Kayla Rogers, East Mississippi; Nina Carpenter, Kamelia Lacy, and Vaquela Pimpton, Holmes; Constance Dunn and Lauren Fitch, Itawamba; Alexis Augustus and Asiah Ward, Mississippi Delta; Aundrea Adams and Tyra Tucker, Northeast; and
Chrissah Shaw, Northwest. The North Division will be coached by the women's staff at Itawamba Community College.
Shaw, a Horn Lake native, averaged a team-high 11.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game for the Lady Rangers, adding 45 assists and 38 steals in 23 starts.
Members of the South Division women's team are Karry Callahan and Alexus Holt, Copiah-Lincoln; Autumn Taylor, East Central; Ernesha Chatman, Hinds; Kira Bonner and Chrystal Ezechukwu, Jones County; Rokila Wallace, Meridian; Eanna Sims, Mississippi Gulf Coast; Tyasia Willis, Pearl River; and Kacie Fountain, Danyelle Lewis, and Rachel Thompson, Southwest. The South Division will be coached by the women's staff at Jones County.
Members of the North Division men's team are Malik Bailey, Coahoma; Keith Harris and Ill'yan Scott, East Mississippi; Justin Johnson, Mikkel Norment, and Trevais Spencer, Holmes; Tre Jenkins, Itawamba; Xa'Vavier Jones, Mississippi Delta; Bryant Givens and Conner McKay, Northeast; and
Alex Shepard and
Miles Washington, Northwest. The North Division will be coached by the men's staff at Itawamba Community College.
Both Shepard and Washington were major contributors for Northwest's 22-4 nationally-ranked north division champion squad. Washington averaged 7.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and led the team with 33 blocks, while Shepard started 25 games and averaged 5.8 points, 3.0 rebounds in nearly 22 minutes a contest.
Members of the South Division men's squad are Jonathan Floyd and Youry White, Copiah-Lincoln; Jaquan Dotson and Thurston McCarty, East Central; Nakia Rivers, Hinds; Shemar Johnson, Jones; Alex Perry, Meridian; Abdul Dial and Qua'Darius Green, Mississippi Gulf Coast; Rodney Mallet, Pearl River; and Jeremy Harrell and Ricardo Lynch, Southwest. The South Division will be coached by the men's staff at Meridian Community College.
