OVER STORY
MEAC Spring Championships
Student Athletes Compete
In Final League Competition
GREENSBORO. N.C. ? During the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC)
1993 Spring Championships held April
15-17 in Tallahassee, hosting Florida
A&M University successfully defended its
men's tennis title, won the inaugural
women's softball tournament, and also
came away with both the men's and
u omen's track crowns. North Carolina
A&T University claimed the baseball tour
lament championship, and Howard Uni
versity took the women's tennis title.
-Baseball
NCA&T swept through four games
undefeated to win its first MEAC baseball
championship since the conference started
its tournament formal in 1984. The
Aggies had secured the title in 1974 when
final overall records were used to deter
mine the champion. Chris Leonard scored
on an error in the bottom of the ninth
inning as A&T edged Delaware State 6-5
to capture the 1993 title.
The Aggies loaded the bases on a sin
gle by Kevin Haithlock. a walk to Leonard
a ndan error by Hornct-sccund haseman
Edgar Santana. Starting pitcher Greg Day
was then relieved by Rob Heisler who
issued a walk to Mike Artis which tied the
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went 4-0 defeating Coppin State 5-/, Howard 9-8 , and DSC 8-3, The Aggies first since 1974 .
Hallie Gregory presents the Most Outstanding Coach Award to A&T's
Keith Henry .
score at 5-5. The next Aggie batter, Leon
Jones, hit a ground ball to shortstop Scott
Ulian whose throw to the plate was wide,
allowing Leonard to score the game win
ning run.
The Most Outstanding Tournament
Performer was North Carolina A&T's
Mike Artis. A&T's first year head coach
Keith Henry was named Tournament's
Outstanding Coach. Joining Artis on the
All Tournament Team were infielders
Dwight O'Neal of Florida A&M, Lamar
White of Bethune-Cookman, and David
Dill of Delaware State, and Joe Hill of
North Carolina A&T, catcher Miguel Cruz
of North Carolina A&T and Pitcher Craw
ford Moser also North Carolina A&T.
Complete Baseball Scores - Thursday:
B-CC 6, UMES 1; Del State 10, SC State
4; Howard 7, FAMU 5; NCA&T 5, Cop
pin 1; UMES 8, Sc State 3; FAMU 4,
Coppin 1. Friday: Del State 8, B-CC 7
(11); NCA&T 8, Del State 3; FAMU 12,
UMES 2; FAMU 14, B-CC 7; FAMU 15,
Howard 11. Saturday: Del State 8, FAMU
4; NCA&T 6, Del State 5. The Aggies
stopped a three-year championship run by
Florida A&M.
?Softball?
The Florida A&M Rattlerette softball
team won the inaugural Mid-Eastern Ath
letic Conference softball championship
Saturday by blowing the past top-seeded
Delaware State 20-3 at the Rattlerette soft
ball complex. Marigrace got the Rat
tlerette rolling, when she hit a solo home
run to lead off the first, giving FAMU a 1
0 lead. They scored 15 runs in the next
four innings, getting five in the fifth.
FAMU was comfortably ahead 20-0
before Del State scored its three runs in
the last inning. Del State had reached the
championship game by downing NCA&T
11-10.
FAMU's Psauntia Andrews was voted
the tournament's Most Outstanding Per
former and her mentor, Veronica Wig
gins, was named the Outstanding Coach.
The All-Toumament Team was comprised
of infielders Janell Staten and Marcelina