SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 - THE CAROLINA TIMES - 11
2016 BLACK COLLEGE BASEBALL (Results, Standings and Weekly Honors)
For the Week of April 5-11, 2016
Villanova Sports Photo
JENKINS AND BOOTH:
Tandem (Jenkins topi., Booth
bottom I.) that led Villanova
to NCAA championship has
black college bloodlines.
TITLE
ROOTS
HALL OF FAME NODS FOR McLENDON, BRADDY;
KERN IN AT MVSU; FORD TAKES JOBE AWARD
UNDER THE BANNER
WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS
COWARD PENS "AN EXPOSURE TO SPORTS":
The storied history of Washington, D. C. athletics is
the backdrop of a new book
from city native William G.
"Billy" Coward entitled
"An Exposure to Sports."
The book chronicles
Coward's life growing up
in the nation's capital and
rubbing shoulders with the
likes of sports legends. Hall
of Earners and D. C. natives
such as Elign Baylor (bas
ketball), Willie Wood (foot ¬
ball) and Maury Wills (baseball) and many others that
went on to outstanding careers in a host of fields.
Coward, 84, a fonner batboy during his youth for
the Washington Homestead Grays, a team that featured
Negro League stars Walter "Buck" Leonard, "Cool Papa"
Bell and Josh Gibson, went on to a distinguished career
as a player, teacher, instructor and coach on the recre
ational, high school and college levels in the D. C. sports
arena.
The North Carolina College (now N. C. Central)
graduate played football in the CIAA, was coached and
mentored by NCCU legends John McLendon and Dr.
Leroy Walker and succeeded NCCU and NBA standout
Sam Jones as head basketball coach at the fonner Fed
eral City College in Washington.
The book is available at Amazon.com and Barnes &
Nobles. The author can be reached at wgcbar@aol.com.
JSU'S BRADDY TO HALL OF FAME:
LUBBOCK, Texas — The winningest baseball
coach in Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball
history has been selected for the 2016 induction class for
the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bob Braddy compiled an 824-546 record in 28
years at Jackson State. His teams advanced to the
NCAA tournament three times and he was named NAIA
District Coach of the Year twice and SWAC Coach of the
Year eight times.
He was the first African-American to be inducted
into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of
Fame in 2003, and he also was inducted into the JSU
Sports Hall of Fame in 1985 and the SWAC Hall of Fame
in 2005.
HBCU CHAMPIONSHIP BLOODLINES:
Black college bloodlines were on full display in
Villanova's 77-74 win over North Carolina in Monday's
NCAA national championship game.
Six-six senior forward Kris Jenkins, who hit the
scintillating buzzer-beating 3-pointer to win the game
for Villanova and finished with 14 points in the game, is
the son of Felicia Jenkins, a former HBCU basketball
player and coach.
Felicia Jenkins was a two-time all-conference player
at Division II Claflin in Orangeburg, S.C., now in the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC),
and later was an assistant at Claflin. Jenkins was also
head coach for seven years at Division II Benedict Col
lege in Columbia, S. C. and most recently an assistant for
a couple of seasons, until 2014, at Division I Jackson
State.
The leading scorer for Villanova, with 20 points
in the championship game, was 6-3 sophomore reserve
guard Phil Booth Jr., son of fonner Coppin State stand
out Phil Booth. -
Tlie elder Booth, a 6-5 forward who played for Ron
"Fang" Mitchell at Coppin State, led the MEAC in
scoring (21.2 ppg.) in 1987 and was named first team all-
conference. A team captain in the 1989-90 season, Booth
helped the Eagles win the MEAC regular season and
tournament championship. With the win, Coppin State
earned its first berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Booth Sr. finished his Coppin State career with 1,268
points and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in
2015.
CIAA
Central Intercollegiate
Athletic Association.
CONF
ALL
W L
w
L
Chowan
7
4
13 18
Winston-Salem State
5
3
16 16
St. Augustine's
4
4
9 25
Virginia State
2
5
3 22
Lincoln
1
3
5 18
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
OFFENSE
Wade Wyatt, Jr., OF, CHOWAN - Hit .625
with4 RBI in 2-1 week. Had .692 0B% and
.625 slugging %.
PITCHER
Jordan Clayton, Fr., P, VSU - Pitched 7
innings in win over WSSU giving up 7 hits
and 3 runs with 2 Ks.
DEFENSE
Jason Baytop, Sr., OF, WSSU - 14 put-
outs, one assist with 1.000% in fielding
in 4-2 week.
COACH
Taylor Furlough, CHOWAN - Led Hawks
to 2-1 weekend vs. St. Augustine's.
MEAC
Mid Eastern
Athletic Conference
CONF
ALL
NORTHERN
w
L
w
L
Norfolk State
5
3
11
14
Delaware State
5
3
5
21
Maryland-E. Shore
3
5
7
19
Coppin State
3
5
5
20
SOUTHERN
Florida A&M
8
1
18
9
Bethune-Cookman
4
5
11
18
Savannah State
4
5
9
20
NC Central
5
7
13,
17
NC A&T
3
6
7
23
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
PLAYER
John Kraft, Sr., LF, CSU - S-for-15 with
3 HRs, 7 RBI, 3 doubles, six runs with 3
walks in four games.
PITCHER
Chris Gonneli, Jr., RHP, NCCU-Scattered
6 hits, one run and fanned 9 in 7 innings
vs. High Point. Austin Robinson, Jr., P,
SSU - Threw a complete game vs. NC AST
giving up three hits and one run.
ROOKIE
Willis McDaniel, Fr., OF, FAMU - Hit .333
(4 of 12) in four games. Had 2 doubles, 1
triple, 4 RBI, 4 runs scored.
SIAC
Southern Intercolligiate
Athletic Conference
CONF
ALL
EAST
w
L
w
L
Albany State
6
1
10
25
Claflin
8
3
15
20
Paine
7
4
18
14
Benedict
4
4
20
9
Clark Atlanta
3
9
7
26
Morehouse
2
10
14
19
WEST
Spring Hill
10
2
19
13
Miles
10
3
22
11
Stillman
5
4
10
20
Kentucky State
6
6
8
19
Tuskegee
4
4
6
17
LeMoyne-Owen
2
5
6
17
Lane
0
11
1
21
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
PLAYER
Ricky Green, Jr., INF, TUSKEGEE - Hit .571
in three games vs. Stillman. Went 4 for 7 with
three walks, three runs, 2 RBI.
PITCHER
Trey Nelson, So., RHP, TUSKEGEE - Pitched
complete game in 9-6 win over Stillman. Allowed
six runs, 4 earned, scattered 8 hits, walked one
ans stuck out one.
SWAC
SOUTHWESTERN
Athletic Conference
DIV
ALL
EASTERN
W L
w
L
Alabama State
12 0
19
12
Jackson State
6 3
17
11
Alcorn State
3 6
4
18
Alabama A&M
3 8
6
24
Miss. Valley State
2 9
4
20
WESTERN
Grambling State
8 4
10
16
Arkansas Pine Bluff
8 4
8
18
Texas Southern
7 5
13
13
Prairie View
3 8
8
17
Southern
3 8
8
17
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
HITTER
Jesus Santana, So., INF., JACKSON
STATE - In six games, hit .350 (7-for-20)
with 2 doubles, 3 HRs, 7 runs, 13 RBI, 18
total bases, .900 slugging pct., .500 on-
base pct. Had two grand slams.
PITCHER
Tyler Howe, R-Jr., RHP, ALABAMA
STATE - Threw 5.0 innings of 3-hit ball,
one earned run, 7 Ks vs. Alabama A&M.
Improved to 5-2 with 1.23 ERA.
BCSP Notes
Jessica Kern to lead
Mississippi Valley State women
Mississippi Valley State has named Jessica Kern as its fourth head
women's basketball coach in the program's history.
Director of Athletics Dianthia-Ford Kee made the
announcement Monday morning.
Kern takes over at MVSU after spending last
season as an assistant coach at Furman University,
where she helped guide the Paladins to the semi-
finals of the Southern Conference Tournament. She
succeeds Elvis Robinson, whose contract was not
renewed.
Kern
Prior to her arrival at Furman, Kern took over a Lincoln University
program in 2011 that had won just three games the year before.
During the 2014-15 season, she was named the Central Intercol
legiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Coach of the Year after leading her
team to a 22-9 record and a share of the CIAA Northern Division title. The
22 wins marked a school record and carried Lincoln to a CIAA Tourna
ment championship game appearance.
Before accepting the head coaching position at Lincoln, she served
as tut assistant coach and media specialist at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee for the 2010-11 campaign, immediately following a two-year'
stint (2008-10) as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Arkansas-
Pine Bluff.
Kern attended Penn State, where she served as a basketball team cap
tain for two years and twice earned All-Big 10 and Academic All-Big hon
ors while also competing in track & field. After graduating in 2002 with
a degree in journalism, she began a successful seven-year professional
basketball career that would take her to Australia, Germany, Switzerland,
Romania, and Poland.
John McLendon deservedly elected to
Basketball Hall of Fame for second time
Basketball coaching legend John McLendon, one of the founders of
the CIAA Basketball Tournament who went on to coach the Tennessee
State men's basketball team to three NAIA National Championships in the
late 1950s, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
as a coach, it was announced during a special presentation on ESPN on
Monday morning.
McLendon had previously been enshrined to the Hall of Fame in 1979
as a contributor to the game.
McLendon served as the head coach of the TSU men's basketball pro
gram from 1954-1959, compiling a 144-20 overall record in five seasons
employing revolutionary tactics such as the full-court press and four-cor
ners offense. Utilizing the talent of future NBA All-Star Dick Barnett,
McLendon guided the Tigers to NAIA National Championships in 1957,
1958 and 1959. His .878 winning percentage at TSU is the best in program
history.
During his career, McLendon coached on the collegiate level at
North Carolina Central, winning the first CIAA Tournament title in
1946, Hampton, TSU, Kentucky State and Cleveland State.
In professional basketball, he was the first African American to
coach the pro game with the Cleveland Pipers of the American Basketball
League in 1961, and he also coached the Denver Rockets of the American
Basketball Association.
McLendon was elected into the Tennessee State Athletics Hall of
Fame in 1983, the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007
and the Cleveland State Hall of Fame in 2007.
McLendon is part of the 10-member Class of 2016 that will be in
ducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 9
in Springfield, Mass. The class includes: Zelmo Beaty (Player), Darrell
Garretson (Referee), Allen Iverson (Player), Tom Izzo (Coach), Yao Ming
(Player), Shaquille O'Neal (Player), Cumberland Posey (Player), Jerry Re-
insdorf (Owner) and Sheryl Swoopes (Player).
Tennessee State’s Dana Ford
wins Ben Jobe Award
HOUSTON, Texas - Tennessee State Men’s Basketball Head Coach
Dana Ford added to his growing resume by earning the prestigious Ben
Jobe Award for the 2015-16 season, presented annually to the top minority
coach in Division I by Collegelnsider.com.
Ford was one of 21 finalists for the award, a list that included Shaka
Smart (Texas), Tubby Smith (Texas Tech), Ed Cooley (Providence), Avery
Johnson (Alabama), James Jones (Yale) and Kelvin Sampson (Houston),
among others.
"It's definitely some great company to be associated with," Ford. said.
"It's another testament to how hard our guys worked to turn the program
around, and 1 just happen to be the guy to oversee it. We're very thankful to
be associated with coaches like that, and I think that speaks volumes about
where our program is heading."
The youngest D-1 head coach in the nation at 31 years old, Ford guid
ed his Tigers to a 20-11 record and a berth in the Collegelnsider.com Post-
season Tournament. TSU’s 15-game improvement from last year’s 5-26
record is one of the biggest turnarounds in NCAA history.
Ford, who is in his second season as TSU’s head coach, helped TSU to
its third 20-win season at the Division I level. For the season, Ford earned
Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year, NABC District 19 Coach of
the Year- and BOXTOROW Coach of the Year.
The award is named after Ben Jobe, who is an icon in the history
of basketball at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He is best
known as the head coach of Southern University, a position he held for
12 seasons. He has also served as head coach at Alabama A&M, Ala
bama State, Talladega, Tuskegee and South Carolina State.
The Jobe award was created in 2010 and is presented annually to the
top minority coach in Division I basketball and voted on by a 30-person
award committee consisting of five current DI head coaches, five retired
head coaches, 10 athletic directors and/or conference administrators, five
NBA scouts and/or administrators and five Collegelnsider.com staff mem
bers. Coach Ben Jobe is the chairman of the awards committee.
RECIPIENTS OF THE BEN JOBE AWARD
2016: Dana Ford, Tennessee State
2015: Bobby Collins, UMES
2014: Willis Wilson, Texas A&M CC
2013: Kevin Ollie, Connecticut
2012: Sean Woods, Miss. Valley State
2011: Cuonzo Martin, Missouri State
2010: Ed Cooley, Fairfield
2016 BLACK COLLEGE
SOFTBALL (Results, Standings and Weekly Honors)
A A Central Intercollegiate
—— Athletic Association
DIV CONFALL
NORTH WLWLWL
Virginia Union 4 2 7 5 7 8
Virginia State 2 1 7 2 9 13
Chowan 0 0 6 0 17 12
Bowie State 0 0 4 2 8 14
Lincoln 0 0 0 6 0 6
Elizabeth City State 0 3 2 7 3 12
SOUTH
Winston-Salem State 2 0 7 1 20 15
J.C.Smith 2 0 5 3 6 10
Fayetteville State 0 0 4 2 10 16
St. Augustine’s 0 0 2 4 3 17
Shaw 0 0 1 5 6 21
Livingstone 0 4 1 9 5 13
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
OFFENSIVE
Jasmine Holloman, Fr., U, WSSU - Four
runs scored, 8 RBI, first career HR (3-run), 5
for 8 (.625) hitting.
DEFENSIVE
Chyna Riley, Jr., 2B, WSSU -1.000 fielding
pct., 3 putous and 3 assists in two games.
PITCHER
Mercedes Hargett, Jr., P, WSSU - Earned a
pair of wins and had a 1.75 ERA with four runs
allowed. Finshed week with 18 Ks.
COACH
LaTaya Hilliard-Gray, WSSU - Led Rams
to 4-0 week.
Mid EASTERN
Athletic. Conference
CONF ALL
NORTHERN W LW L
Delaware State 7 2 14 14
Norfolk State 5 2 10 14
Hampton 4 2 12 19 .
Morgan State 4 2 8 20
Maryland-E. Shore 2 5 7 18
Coppin State 2 7 2 21
Howard 1 5 5 23
SOUTHERN
Florida A&M 6 0 17 19
Savannah State 5 0 15 17
Bethune-Cookman 3 3 8 24
NCA&T 2 4 13 19
S.C.State 1 5 4 16
. NC Central 0 5 3 30
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
PLAYER
Amber Fullwood, Jr., 3B, FAMU - Hit .875
in three wins with 7 hits, 1 HR, 5 runs scored
and 7 RBI. Also pitched a complete game.
PITCHER
Sabria Anguiano, Jr., P, B-CU - Went 2-0
with 1.27 ERA in sweep of NC A&T. Allowed
three runs in 11.0 innings with 2 Ks.
ROOKIE
Annie Bakenhus, Fr., OF, B-CU - Went
S-for-13 in three wins vs. NC A&T with 4 runs
scored, 2 RBI and two doubles. Also had three
putouts and three steals.
CI AC Southern Intercolligiate
W S v Athletic Conference
CONF ALL
EAST W L WL
. SpringHIII 14 0 36 12
Miles 7 17 3
Tuskegee 7 1 9 22
Albany State 9 2 11 20
Claflin 11 5 18 16
Stillman 16 3 22 15
Benedict 4 3 4 5
Kentucky State 6 5 7 6
Lane 7 12 13 14
Clark Atlanta 4 12 7 23
LeMoyne-Owen 2 12 2 12
Fort Valley State 2 15 2 25
Paine 1 12 1 13
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
PLAYER
Courtney Burns, Sr., U, CLAFLIN - In 7-0
week, had 10 hits and hit.556with two HRs,
14 runs scored, 7 RBI and 4 doubles. Was
5 of 5 in stolen bases.
PITCHER
Tiaria Norman, So., P/INF, CLAFLIN -
Made four appearances, three starts and
threw two complete games. Vs. FVSU,
pitched five innings with no hits, no runs
and 11 Ks. Vs. Shaw, allowed one run
with 11 Ks. Vs. FSU, 10 Ks in five innings.
C1 A/A P SOUTHWESTERN
W w Athletic Conference
DIV ALL
EASTERN WL W L
Alabama State 9 0 18 19
Miss. Valley State 5 4 9 19
Alcorn State 5 4 9 19
Jackson State 5 4 7 23
AlabamaA&M 1 3 4 18
WESTERN
Texas Southern 7 1 14 12
Prairie View 4 5 7 17
Arkansas Pine Bluff 2 7 11 24
Southern 1 4 4 12
Grambling State 1 8 4 23
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
HITTER
Ikeyia Alexander, So., INF., MVSU -6
for 8 with 4 HRs in 3-game sweep of
AlabamaA&M. Had 8 RBI, 7 runs scored.
PITCHER
Maddie Phelps, Sr., P, ALABAMA
STATE - Earned three wins and a save.
In 17 innings, allowed six earned runs
and struck out 15. Lowered ERA to 2.95.
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