SCOOBA – The two-time reigning MACCC champion and preseason second-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College will kick off the 2024 football season Thursday evening by playing host to the preseason 10th-ranked Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Bulldogs on the Scooba campus. Game time for Thursday’s rematch of last year’s MACCC Semifinals contest between EMCC and Gulf Coast is set for 7 p.m.
at Sullivan-Windham Field. Thursday’s top-10 matchup between the Lions and Bulldogs will be broadcast live by WFCA-FM (107.9), out of French Camp, with Jason Crowder and Glen Beard slated to provide the play-by-play and color commentary, respectively.
Jay Perry is set to handle sideline reporting duties. The game’s live-streamed audio will also be carried by EMCC’s campus radio station, WGTC-FM (92.7), originating from the Golden Triangle campus in Mayhew.
Along with EMCC’s weekly live video-streamed football broadcasts being available in HD at emcclive.com , alternate audio streams of the Lions’ radio broadcasts throughout the football season will also be accessible via wfca.fm.
EMCC’s 17th-year head football coach Buddy Stephens owns a 12-4 career record against Gulf Coast, including a 7-1 postseason mark versus the Bulldogs that features conference title game wins over the Bulldogs during the 2009 and 2011 seasons in Scooba. Last year, the Lions avenged a 42-17 home setback to MGCCC by claiming a 33-21 home victory over the Bulldogs in the MACCC Semifin.