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NEMCC

  • Lady Tigers softball ready for task at hand

    Northeast Mississippi Community College head softball coach Jody Long has never been one that backed down from an opponent and with the national tournament being held in Mississippi this year, Long and the Lady Tigers are ready for the task at hand.
    Northeast opened the 2012 softball season on Feb. 9 at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Ala., but just a week after the meeting with the Lady Warhawks sits a pair of games against opponents that were a combined 105-17 last year and one is the defending national champion.

  • Cummings signs with BMC baseball

    Northeast Mississippi Community College right-handed pitcher Beau Cummings (Myrtle) has agreed to continue his baseball career after signing a grant-in-aid with Blue Mountain College.

  • Tigers, Lady Tigers find tough road to Little Rock

    Northeast Mississippi Community College’s men and women’s basketball teams found the road unkind in their longest combined road trip of the year as the Tigers and Lady Tigers traveled to Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday, January 30.
     
    First-year Lady Tiger head coach Brian Alexander saw his Lady Tigers come up on the short end 69-66 decision while the Buffaloes handed the Tigers just their fourth loss of the year 92-82.
     

  • New Albany's Alef signs with Northeast baseball

    Northeast Mississippi Community College head baseball coach Kent Farris has announced that the Tigers have signed Riley Alef, a catcher from New Albany for the 2012-13 season.

  • Lady Tigers get big road win, Tigers fall in final seconds

    First year Lady Tiger head coach Brian Alexander picked up a big victory on the road in Scooba over the Lady Lions while the Tigers dropped a heartbreaker in the nightcap Tuesday evening in Scooba.
     
    Northeast won the opener 66-57 over East Mississippi (4-9, 1-2) at Keyes T. Currie Coliseum to improve to 6-7 overall—but more importantly moved to 2-1 in the MACJC North Division standings.
     
    Coach Alexander’s team received a game-high 22 points from Amber Jackson while Anna Brooke Page and Shunquest Howell added 16 points apiece.

  • Judon among NEMCC signees

    Northeast Mississippi Community College softball coach Jody Long has announced the signing of eight athletes for the 2012-13 Lady Tiger softball team.

  • NEMCC Tigers remain unbeaten

    Lavon Hooks collected a double-double to help propel the Northeast Tigers to a 6-0 start by defeating the Meridian Eagles 80-78 on Monday night in Meridian.
    Hooks finished with 18 points and 16 rebounds as Coach Robbins’ squad rallied back in the second half for the win after trailing Meridian 38-37 at the break.

  • Northeast splits with Jones County in Ellisville

    Jermaine Hollimon led the charge for Northeast on the hardwood with 16 points to help push the Tigers to a 5-0 start by defeating the Jones County Bobcats 84-72.
     
    DavidRobbins’ squad led 42-35 at the break and outscored Jones County Junior College in the second half 42-37 to secure the road victory and remain undefeated.
     
    Northeast shot 50-percent from the floor, 42-percent from behind the arc and managed to hit 71-percent of its free throws.
     

  • Northeast splits season opener

    Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Tiger and Lady Tiger basketball teams showed that they would be a force to reckon with in the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges.

    David Robbins’ Tigers knocked off the high-powered Wallace State Lions 81-54 while Brian Alexander’s Lady Tigers took the Lady Lions to the brink in their season opener before falling in a heartbreaker 75-73.

  • Northeast qualifies for MACJC playoffs

    Northeast Mississippi Community College’s football team is headed to the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) state playoffs for the first time since 2005.
    Northeast (6-3, 4-2 in North Division) finished the regular season tied for the division runner-up spot with Northwest Mississippi Community College and Itawamba Community College but won out on tiebreakers and made it into the playoffs for the first time in six years.

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