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4C SPORTS/tSiie CtarlotU $ot Thursday, January 15, 2004 For the Week of Jan. 27 through Feb. 2, 2004 POWER SHIFTS Photo by Carroll Smith HIGH IMPACT: CIAA scor- ing leader Anton Jennifer of Bowie State formeriy played at MEAC-member, Morgan State. ▼ FORTE LANDS AT UAPB; BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS, BAND AT SUPER BOWL XXXVIII coaching job at Arkansas-Fine Bluff. UNDER THE BANNER WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS UAPB TABS FORTEl Arkansas-PmeBlufr Monday named former Norfolk State and North Carolina A&T head coach, Maurice "Mo" Forte, as the Golden Lions new head football coach. "We looked over the other candidates, but in the end. Forte’s experience gave him the advantage," UAPB Athletic Director Craig Curry said Monday. Curry interviewed Forte along with UAPB Bcsp Photo assistants Marty Steward and Willie FORTE: Gets his third Fulton for the vacancy created when black college head ll-year coach Lee Hardman resigned following the 2003 season. According to Curry, both Fulton and Steward will be interviewed for jobs on Forte’s coaching staff. Considering the criteria set, Curry was impressed with Forte’s lime as an assistant on the college and professional level, as well as his tenures as a head coach at NC A&T and NSU. Forte was fired from Norfolk State in 2002 after back- to-back 5-6 seasons. Prior to NSU, Forte was an assistant in the NFL, coaching running backs and wide receivers for the Detroit Lions (1995-96) and the Denver Broncos (1988-94). Forte's other coaching stint was during the 1980’s when he coached at A&T. leading the team to a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in 1986. At N.C. A&T, Forte finished 27-36-1. For the Spartans, Forte finished 15-29. SUPER BOWL BOUND: Texas Southern's Ocean of Soul Marching Band has won a chance of a lifetime - a halftime performance with Janet Jackson at Super Bowl XXXVIII Sunday in Houston - and has its sights set on turning Reliant Stadium into a rocking, rhythmic realm of excitement come February 1. The band won't be alone, through; Ocean of Soul is collaborating with the University of Houston's Spirit of Houston Cougar Marching Band. A total of 360 students from TSU and UH will take to the field. Since early December 2003. this plan has been in the works, with e-maiis and telephone calls bounding from time zone to time zone. Richare Lee, Ocean of Soul director, has been in touch with MTV. the network producing the halftime show. Salli Fraitini, a senior vice president of MTV. and other net work executives, visited TSU’s campus in December to audi tion Lee's band. A camera crew was in tow and captured footage of the entire audition in order to produce a "Making of the Half-Time show" program to air on MTV in February after the big game. According to Lee, Ocean of Soul had a number of prepared pieces to show off for the audition. The drumline performed a litany of funk routines and the entire band performed several songs, including TSU's fight song, "Crazy Love" by Beyonce' and "I Like the Way you Move" by the rap duo Oukast. Weeks later. MTV decided that both TSU and UH should be featured during the Super Bowl. The producers were eager to capture the unique styles and sounds of both bands. Rehearsals will continue throughout the week with a full run through on Thursday, January 29 at Reliant Stadium. Band directors Lee and David Bertman of the University of Houston have partnered in every aspect of the routine, going so far as to fly to Los Angeles to meet and dis cuss ideas with Janet Jackson. Moreover UH’s Kevin Erickson and TSU graduate student Brian Pierre collaborat ed on the music for the drum feature. TSU's percussion sec tion designed dance movements for the drum performance. "We are very excited to gel this opportunity," Lee said. "I'm sure we'll work well with them (University of Houston). This is fantastic not only for our band members, but also for Texas Southern University.’’ BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS IN SUPER BOWL XXXVIll NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 34 Chris Akins S 5 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 98 Anthony Pleasant DE 4 Tennessee State 38 Tyrone Poole ■ DB 8 Fort Valley State CAROLINA PANTHERS 29 Dante Wesley CB 2 Arkansas-Pine Bluff OAZEEZ Communications, Inc. VOL. X, NO. 25 2003-04 BLACK COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Men's Results, Standings and Weekly Honors) HE STAT CORNER WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BUCK COLLEGE SPORTS SCORES MONDAY, JAN 26 MEAC Hampton 74, Howard 59 NSU 82, DalStata 80, OT SCSU 66. FAMU 62 SWAC Alcorn Si. 70,AA8M67 AJab St. 71, SU 70 MVSU 94. PVA&M63 TSU so, UAPB 50 SATURDAY, JAN, 24 MEAC CSC 68, UMES 42 DSU 85. Hampton 56 FAMU 74, NCAST55 Howard 54, NSU 53 SCSU71,B-CC69 SWAC AA&M ei.suse Alcorn St- 77, Alab. St. 70 JSU 83, QSU 64 PV ASM 71, UAPB 50 TSU 61, MVSU 59 CIAA FSU 69, SPC 66 NCCU 78. SAC 77 Shaw 90, LC 72 VUU 83, ECSU 52 ■NO Murray St. 84, Tenn St. 78 E. DIVISION Bowie State Virginia Union Shaw Eliz. City St. Virginia State St. Paul's W. DIVISION N, C- Central St. Augustine's Fayetteville Slate J. C. Smith W-Salem State Livingstone Athletic Association ALL W L 16 2 12 3 8 11 8 10 1 4 1 15 CIAA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK PLAYER ANTON JENNIFER, Sr, G, 8SU, Baltimore, MD ■ Averaged 25 points and eight assists m wins over Va. Ui^ and Columbia Union. Had 31 pis., 9 assists, 4 reb., 3 sds., vs. Col. Union. ROOKIE AUDLY WEHNER, Fr, F, WSSU, Fayetteville, NC - Shot 85.7% (18 of 21] while averaging 23.5 points in two games, getting 26 vs. JC Smith to win fourth straight award. COACH PHIL SPENCE, NCCU ■ Two West DiviskMi wins to get to 4-0 in divisional play. lyiCAf' Mid Eastern ivi^nw Athletic Conference Ol A ^ Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference CONF ALL CONF ALL W L W L E. DIVISION W L W L Delaware State 2 7 9 Benedict 9 1 4 Coppin State 2 8 11 Morehouse 6 3 11 4 SC State 2 9 8 Albany State 5 3 6 Morgan State 2 6 8 Paine 5 5 9 Florida A&M 3 6 11 Ft. Valley Stale 3 5 9 Hampton 3 7 12 Clark Atlanta 3 6 9 Norfolk State 4 5 12 W. DIVISION Bethune-Cookman 5 3 13 Tuskegee 4 3 8 Howard 6 •4 13 Miles 5 4 8 Maryland-E, S. 6 Lane 6 5 8 13 Kentucky State 3 8 10 NC A&T State 7 0 16 LeMoyneK)wen 1 7 13 MEAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK SIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK PLAYER NA DAVID JOHNSON. Sr., F, HAM, Norfolk. VA • Had game-high 14 points off the bench in win over Howard and had a double-double in loss to DelState. ROOKIE BRIAN MASON. Fr., F, SCSU, Dominica - Averaged 23.5 points in two wins, 22 vs. FAMU and a career-high 25 vs. B-CC. Shot 17 ol 27 for the week (63%). Athletic Conference Jackson State Miss. Valley State Texas Southern Southern Alcorn State Alabama A&M Prairie View Grambling State Alabama State Ark. Pine Bluff SWAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK PLAYER BRIAN JACKSON, Sr, F, Alcorn St., Baker LA • In two games, averaged 18 points and 8.5 rebounds, including game-high 22 points with six steals in win over Alabama State. Had first double-double vs. Alabama A&M, 14 points and 11 rebounds. Other Notable Performances - Ishmael Joyce, Jackson St. - Had 25 pis., 8 reb., 5 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals in win over GSU. - Obie Trotter, Alabama A&M • Hit game-winner with three seconds left In win over SU. Finished with 22 vs. SU, 18 in loss to Alcorn SI. INDEPEND. W L W. V. State 13 3 UDC 11 7 Cheyney 12 4 Central St. 9 7 Sav. St. 2 19 Tenn. St. 4 13 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK PLAYER ''NA Transfers of power LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor They don't yet appear in confer ence stats but their effects are being felt on the court. They are the influx of transfer players that are showing up in the second semester of the 2004 basket ball season at black college NCAA Div. II schools, particularly in the CIAA, and making an impact. While junior college and Div. I transfers usually populate black col lege Div. II schools' rosters, those that become eligible in the second semester - usually after. mid- December - often provide an infu sion of talent and energy that raises the level of play for their particular teams. That's certainly the case this season for Bowie State, who under GAMES THIS WEEK THUR., JAN. 29 CIAA LC @ VUU 7:30pm VSU @ NCCU 7:30pm Col. Union @ ECSU 7:30pm Longwood @ SPC MEAC 7:30pm UMES @ SSC SWAC 7:30pm Tex. A&M CC @ Alcorn St. 7:00pm SAT., JAN. 31 CIAA ECSU @ Shaw 7:30pm NCCU @ WSSU 7:30pm SPC @ VSU 2:00pm JCSU @ LC MEAC 7:30pm UMES @ FAMU 4:00pm CSC @ HAM 4:00pm MSu @ NSu 4:00pm NC A&T @ DSU 4:00pm SCSU @ HOW SWAC 4:00pm PV @ AA&M 7:30pm TSU @ Alab. St. 3:00pm GSU @ UAPB TBA JSU @ MVSU 7:30pm Ale. St. @ SU MON., FEB. 2 MEAC 7:30pm B-CC at UMES* 7:30pm DSU. at SeSu 7:30pm NSU at CSC 7:30pm HAM vs. MSU 7:30pm HOW at NC A&T 7:30pm SWAC TSU @ AA&M 7:30pm PV @ Alab. St. 8:00pm Alcorn St. ® Tex. PA TBA JSU @ UAPB 7:30pm GSU @ MVSU TUES., FEB. 3 CIAA 7:30pm ECSU @ LC 7:30pm WSSU @ SAC 7:30pm BSU @ VUU 7:30pm VSU @ JCSU 7:30pm Shaw @ SPC 7:30pm NCCU @ FSU THUR., FEB. 5 CIAA 7:30pm Longwood @ SPC 7:00pm VSU @ LC 7:30pm Times are for men's games. Women's games usually start two hours before men's contests. fifth-year head coach Luke D’Alessio. has become a haven for transfers. D'Alessio, a former junior col lege coach, fielded a transfer-laden team last year that finished 30-5 and produced the school's first-ever CIAA championship and Div. II Final Four appearance. He has added another ten trans fers to this year's squad. One of them, former Morgan State sharpshooter Anton Jennifer, currently leads the CIAA in scoring at 23.9 points per game. Jennifer, a 5-9 guard, has been with BSU from the start of the season. But the one that will likely have the most impact is former Alcorn State and SWAC star Lee Cook, a 6- 9 center that joined the team just after Jan. 1. The Bulldogs are 8-0 with him in the lineup. In perhaps his best per formance, Cook threw in 26 points, pulled down 17 rebounds, had six assists and three blocks in the Bulldogs’ 87-82 win over Virginia Union on Dec, 20. VUU is considered perhaps the likeliest challenger to BSU for CIAA honors. With Cook, D'Alessio has said this year's squad may be as talented as the one he took to the national semifi nals. But D'Alessio is by no means the only CIAA coach who has 'beefed up' his roster since the new year began. For all practical purposes, North Carolina Central head coach Phil Spence has gotten an entirely new fronicourt in the second semes ter. Six-seven swingman Jonathan Moore (East Carolina), 6-10 center Melvin Whitaker (Mount St. Mary's) and 6-8 forward Mintrel Abney (Rockingham CC) have sup planted the players Spence used as starters through the 9-6 Eagles' first eight games. Moore, the most exciting of the bunch, is averaging 15 points and six rebounds per game. Whitaker, the heralded former University of Virginia recruit who had his share of trouble before landing at Mount St. Mary's, is at nine points and five boards per game while Abney is get ting six points and three rebounds per contest. Combo guard Quincy Smith has joined the Virginia Union Panthers for the second semester. Smith, played significant minutes off the bench last season, and should provide Dave Robbins' squad with depth in the backcourt. Although they both played for the Bears last season, Anthony Greenup and Michael McLeod have been welcome additions at Shaw after sitting out the first semester. Greenup, who led all of Div. 11 in field goal peicentage last season, has picked up where he left off since rejoining the team in January. The 6- 8 leaper is averaging right at 21 points and ten rebounds per game while shooting a blistering 71% (132 Photo by Carroll Smith BIG IMPACT: A year ago, Lee Cook was a preseason all-SWAC center at Alcorn State. This year he's a key ele ment in 16-2 Bowie State's attempt to repeat in the CIAA and on the national scene. of 184) from the field, second best in the nation. Six-one point guard Michael McLeod has also returned and is getting 11 points and nearly five assists per game. Reserve 6-8 sopho more Jamil Aliyy is also a January addition. Carlos Gill has played in 11 games for 14-5 St. Augustine's aver aging 11 points per game, third on the team. Gill, a 6-7, 245-pound forward, had 29 points in a recent win over Elizabeth City State. Band battle sells out Georgia Dome ERIC MOORE Special to the BCSP Ten of the best HBCU bands in the country gathered in Atlanta's Georgia Dome Saturday for the second Honda Battle of the Bands Invitational Showcase. Two bands each from the four black college con ferences and two HBCU bands from non-black college conferences performed before a sold-out crowd of over 60,000 fans. The three-and-a-half hour event began with a performance by a combined band including all the par ticipants. The 2,200-piece contingent opened with the National Anthem and a stirring rendition of "America The Beautiful" dedicated to America's men and women overseas. The mass band returned for a closing performance joined by the Marching Wolverines of Morris Brown College, who participated in the first Showcase last year. In between, bands from Alabama State, Bethune- Cookman. Clark Atlanta. Florida A&M, Johnson C. Smith. Prairie View A&M. Savannah State. Tennessee State, Tfiskegee and Virginia State put on 10-minute shows to the delight of the sellout crowd. While bands were moving on and off the field, Atlanta area disc jockeys supported by the large video screens at both ends of the Dome kept the crowd occupied. Although there was no designated winner in the Showcase, the Marching Storm of Prairie View A&M was clearly the crowd favorite. Their performance show- Photo by Georgs Street 2200 STRONG: Members of all ten performing bands line the field of the sold-out Georgia Dome for opening tribute to America's fighting men overseas. cased their drumline along with the "Black Foxes" dance troupe. The Honda Battle of the Bands program had two components, a Celebration Tour, which ran through Nov. 22, and the Invitational Showcase finale event. The Celebration Tour provided an opportunity for 43 partici pating schools to earn a $l,(XX) grant for their halftime performances at selected football games during the fall. Each of the 10 Invitational Showcase participants received a $10,000 grant. 2003-04 BLACK COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Women's Results, Standings and Weekly Honors) SCORES MONDAY, JAN 26 MEAC DSU 65. NSU 51 FAMU 69, SCSU 67 Hampion 60, Howard 53 SWAC Alcorn Si. 63. AAA&M 60 Alab St. 57. SU 49 PVA&U 64. MVSU 61 TSU 72, UAPB 59 IND. Jax. St. 8. Sav St. 44 SATURDAY, JAN. 24 MEAC &-CC81,SCSU68 CSC 75. UMES 62 DSU 66. Hampton 47 FAMU76, NCA4T54 NSU 71. Howard 63 SWAC Al&m St. 74, Alab. St 71 UAPB 64, PVA8M59 JSU 71, GSU 55 MVSU 64, TSU 56 SU 70. AA&M 65 CIAA FSU 77, SPC 39 NCCU 53, SAC 52 Shaw 60, LC 46 VUU 60, ECSU 53 WSSU 62. JCSU 56 Athletic Association E. DIVISION Virginia Union Shaw Eliz. City State Bowie State Virginia State St. Paul's W. DIVISION W-Salem State Fayetteville State N. C, Central Livingstone St. Augustine's J. C. Smith W L W L 3 3 5 0 1 T 3 4 3 8 15 2 17 2 7 9 9 11 5 9 1 15 10 7 9 9 8 8 5 12 10 9 10 CIAAPUYERS OF THE WEEK PUYER JESSICA HAWKINS. Jr., G. Shaw. Raleigh, NC • In three games, averaged 14 points, 8.6 assists. 7.6 rebounds and 3 steals including 10 pts.. 13 assists. 9 reb., sa steals vs. FSU. ROOKIE TYESHIA cook, Ff„ G, VSU, Newport News, Va ■ Averaged 12 poinls, 7 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2 steals in 2-0 week. COACH STEPHANIE EVANS, VSU • Went 2-0 with wins over WSSU and UOC. ' Athletic Conference CONF ALL Delaware State Florida A&M Howard Coppin State Hampton Bethune-Cookman SC State NC A&T State Maryland-E. S. Morgan State Norfolk State 7 1 12 4 6 2 10 7 5 3 5 12 5 3 9 8 MEAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK PLAYER MANDY CLARK. Jr., G, DSU, Baltimore. MD - Led DSU to 2-0 week, averaging 24 points, 5 rebounds. 4.5 asists and 3.0 steals. Had 22 points vs. Hampton, 26 vs. Norfolk State. ROOKIE TALIA SUTTON. Fr., F, CSC, Staten Island, NY ■ Ter points, seven rebounds vs. UMES. Other Notable Performances - - Nicole Bralhwiathe, Hampton - 27 ppg., 8.5 rpg., Ind., career-high 36 pis., vs. Howard. E. DIVISION Clark Atlanta Paine Albany State Benedict Ft. Valley State W. DIVISION Tuskegee Miles Kentucky State LeMoyne-Owen Lane Athletic Conference CONF ALL W L W L 15 1 8 5 6 9 8 5 11 4 9 5 4 10 2 11 1 13 0 14 SIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK SWAC Athletic Conference Jackson State Southern Alcorn State Alabama A&M Alabama State Texas Southern Grambling State Miss. Valley State Ark. Pine Bluff Prairie View 13 4 8 8 6 10 7 9 7 8 6 9 5 10 4 11 2 13 3 12 SWAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK PLAYER CRYSTAL KITT, Jr., C, Alabama St, Mobile, AL • In 1-1 week, averaged 20.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks. In her best effort she had 18 pts., 15 rebs., and 7 blocks vs. SU, her seventh double-double in nine games. Other Notable Performances - - Stephanie Mason, MVSU • Avgd. 15 ppg., 6.6 rpg., 4.6 apg., and 4.6 spg.. for the week. -Amie Williams, JSU-Had 18 pts., 11 reb., and 3 blocks in win over GSU. W. V, SI. Central St. UDC Cheyney Sav. St. Tenn, St. W L 12 4 8 7 7 8 4 11 5 14 1 15 PUYERS OF THE WEEK PLAYER
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