EMCC Lady Lions set to tip off 2024-25 hoops season on the road
East Mississippi Community College’s 2024-25 women’s basketball season is set to tip off this week on the road. The Lady Lions will head to Poplarville for neutral-site contests on Friday and Saturday on the Pearl River Community Classic campus.
SCOOBA – East Mississippi Community College's 2024-25 women's basketball season is set to tip off this week in Poplarville with neutral-site contests against Andrew College and Enterprise State on Friday (5:30 p.m.) and Saturday (noon), respectively, on the Pearl River Community Classic campus.
The EMCC Lady Lions will then face an early test by traveling to preseason second-ranked Northwest Florida State in Niceville, Nov. 6, before tipping off their home slate against preseason ninth-ranked Shelton State and Lawson State on Nov. 11 and 14, respectively.
EMCC's women will then close out the month of November with a road rematch against Lawson State (Nov. 16) in Birmingham prior to neutral-site contests versus Calhoun and Chipola, Nov. 21-22, at the Northeast Mississippi Thanksgiving Classic in Booneville.
EMCC head women's basketball coach Isaiah Butler's 2024-25 Lady Lions welcome back four players from last year's 4-24 team, including returning starters Kennedi McCray (7.9 ppg, 3.8 rpg & 4.1 apg), from Hoover High School in Alabama, Oak Grove High School product Shalea Boddie (6.4 ppg, 4.8 rpg & 2.0 apg), and Starkville's JeNiecia Hill (2.6 ppg, 2.9 rpg & 0.9 apg). EMCC's other returner is Kamaria Patrick, out of Meridian's Clarkdale High School.
The EMCC women are counting on immediate contributions from transfers Leah Wilcher (Brookhaven, MS/Brookhaven HS) and Kennedi Wagner (Center Point, AL/Ramsay IB HS), who both gained valuable MACCC experience a year ago despite seeing limited action as freshmen at Pearl River and Coahoma, respectively.
The Lady Lions will also feature plenty of youth on this year's squad with the addition of eight incoming freshmen. The newcomer group is comprised of Ty'Asiah Bohannon (DeKalb, MS/Kemper County HS), Aniya Hudson (Bunkie, LA/Northwood HS), Dukiaha Jones (Nettleton, MS/West Point HS), Raegan Jordan (Madison, MS/Germantown HS), La'dymein Lafayette (Ocean Springs, MS/St. Martin HS), Zantasheia Mallett (Jackson, MS/Forest Hill HS), Micaiah Satcher (Gluckstadt, MS/Germantown HS), and Zarria Shipp (Olive Branch, MS/Center Hill HS).