Mississippi Gulf Coast 88, at Northeast Mississippi 67

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (Interstat) — The Mississippi Gulf Coast Bulldogs used a dominant defensive performance to overwhelm the Northeast Mississippi Tigers 88-67 in a men’s junior college basketball game Thursday night. The Bulldogs, improving to 16-4, forced 24 turnovers and converted them into a steady stream of transition opportunities. That defensive pressure was the defining characteristic of the game, with Gulf Coast recording 16 steals to the Tigers’ nine. Duran Parish led the theft effort with a game-high seven steals to go along with his 10 points and seven assists. The game was decided by a massive first-half surge from the… Read more...