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SPORTS/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, April 3, 1997
For the Week of April 1 through April 8, 1997
THAT
TIME
OF THE
YEAR
CIAA Photo
McNEILL: To leave
Johnson C. Smith for
Savannah State.
T BLACK COLLEGES JOIN SHUFFLE OF
GRIDIRON AND HARDWOOD COACHES
Del State Sports Photo
PERRY: Leaves Del
State for his alma
mater.
UNDER THE BANNER
WHATS GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS
ALL AMERICAN “ Art Perry, who guided
Delaware State to a 7-20 record in his first year leading the
Hornets program, has been named
W i the new coach at American Univer-
» k. -i ilit 5 ^
sity in Washington, D. C. Perry, 51,
is an American U. graduate who
spent six years as a University of
Maryland assistant before accept
ing the Del State job last August. In
assistant stints at Rutgers, Connecti
cut, Old Dominion and Maryland,
Perry earned a reputation as a top
recruiter, including landing NBA top pick, Joe Smith for
Maryland.
NO JAC: Ajac Triplett has called it quits as head
men's basketball coach at Morris Brown College. Triplett's
resignation ends a nine-year stint at the helm of the Wolver
ine basketball program. During his tenure Triplett had a
record of 78-157 (.332). Overall, his 19-year career record
is 237-271. At MBC, Triplett led the Wolverines to two
SIAC East Championships (1990-91 and 1994-95). In '90-
91, the Wolverines, who finished 16-12, won the SIAC
Visitation Championship. Triplett was named conference
Coach of the Year that season. During the same season, he
was named Atlanta Tip-Off Club Division II Coach of the
Year and won the Award of Merit from the National Asso
ciation of Basketball Coaches (NABC). This past season
was his worst at Morris Brown finishing with a 2-22 record.
Triplett coached at Delaware State and Florida A&M
before arriving at MBC. He compiled a 44-62 record in four
seasons at Del State and was an impressive 115-49 in six
seasons at FAMU. He was named SIAC Coach of the Year
in 1977 and 1978 when his FAMU teams (then in the SIAC)
finished 18-12 and 23-6.
THE LADY IS OUTi south Carolina state
has announced that the contract of women's basketball
coach, Germaine McAuley, will
not be renewed. McAuley's Lady
Bulldogs finished last in Mid East
ern Athletic Conference play this
year with a 3-15 record, 5-21 over
all. A year ago the Lady Bulldogs
finished sixth in the MEAC with a
6-10 record while posting a 7-19
overall mark. Her first team in 1993,
filled with players she did not re
cruit, won the MEAC regular season crown with a 15-1
mark. Her career record at SCSU is47-62 Before taking over
at SC State, McAuley coached at Winthrop for four years
posting a 21-91 mark.
McNEILL MAKESAMOVE: Johnson
C. Smith University head football coach and associate
athletic director Daryl McNeill was named at a news
conference March 31 as the new interim head football coach
at Savannah State University. McNeill was one of three
new coaches who were announced by new interim athletic
director Hornsby Howell. McNeill, a graduate of South
Carolina State University, had returned the JCSU Golden
Bulls to respectability this year posting a 7-3 record, 5-3 in
the CIAA, good for a fifth-place finish. McNeill had served
as offensive coordinator at SSU from 1988-93 before taking
over the reins at JCSU. Howell also announced that Jacques
Curtis, who has served as an assistant men's basketball
coach at Shaw University, has been appointed interim
men's head basketball coach. Curtis is a Savannah State
graduate. Jimmie Wheatley, also a Savannah State grad,
was appointed as the head men's and women's golf coach.
Wheatley played on the school's first golf team in 1968 and
has been part of the SSU coaching ranks for nine years
coaching men's golf, women's basketball and men's basket
ball.
MEAC Photo
McAULEY: Out after
three years at SCSU.
CAZEEZ Communications, Inc VOL. Ill, NO. 33
BLACK COLLEGE BASEBALL
Athletic CoMrenENCE
Norfolk State
1-0
1.000
13-11-1
.540
Alabama A&M
12-3
.800
18-10
.642
East Division
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Bowie State
6-2
.750
6-5
.540
Kentucky State
3-1
.750
4-9
.307
!Jackson State
12-3
.800
15-10
.600
St. Augustine's
3-1
.750
6-8
.420
Savannah St.
9-4
.692
23-12
.657
Alcorn State
10-6
.625
18-13
.581
-i
Shaw
2-2
.500
2-2
.500
LeMoyne Owen
5-3
.625
8-15
.347
Alabama State
8-8
.500
13-21
.382
Virginia State
1-2
.334
4-4
.500
Tuskegee
2-4
.333
3-10
.230
Miss. Valley
1-14
.067
2-19
.096
I
St. Paul's
0-4
.000
1-7
.120
Miles
2-4
.333
8-9
.471
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Elizabeth City
0-2
.000
0-2
.000
Clark Atlanta
0-11
.000
0-16
.000
West Division
Southern
13-3
.813
17-9
.654
Grambling State
11-5
.688
21 -5
.808
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Texas Southern
5-9
.358
12-16
.429
Prairie View
1-13
.072
3-25
.120
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
BATTER ~ TIMOTHY STEPHNEY - 5-11, Jr., Alcorn
State - Batted .667 going 16-24 with four HRs in six
games.
PITCHER - RICKIE MILLER - 6-1, Jr., Grambling State
- Two wins and a save in three appearances.
Black college players shut out at the P-l-T
LUT WILLIAMS
BCSP Editor
The players chosen as the best in
black college basketball this year are
underclassmen, so it's not particularly
shocking that no black college players
were selected to play
in the 45th Annual
Portsmouth (Va.) In
vitational Tourna
ment, running April 2-
5 at Portsmouth's
Churchland High
School.
Still, it is surpris
ing that the tourna
ment, which has
served as a sort-of
coming out party for
seldom seen black col
lege talent, couldn't
find any entrants this
year. Winston-Salem
State's Earl "The
Pearl" Monroe and
Norfolk State's
Bobby "Stick"
Dandridge were two
so-called small col
lege players who
wowed the scouts at
the P-I-T and jump-started their stellar
NBA careers.
The tournament format takes 64
seniors and divides them into eight eight-
man teams to play before a host of NBA,
CBA and international team scouts in
the four-day affair. It has been the place
for college seniors, including those from
black colleges, not projected as lottery
or first round picks to showcase their
skills. Longtime tournament coordinator
and selection committee member, 74-
year old Yale Dolsey, could not be reached
to see if this was the first time black
college players have not been invited.
This is the
first time in recent
memory however
that no black college
players have been se
lected. Last year, six
black college
standouts partici
pated. Two,
Mississppi Valley
forward Marcus
Mann (2nd round,
Golden State) and
West Virginia State
guard Shawn
Harvey (2nd round,
Dallas,) were se
lected in the 1996
NBA Draft.
This year,
each of the four black'
college conference
Most Valuable Play
ers is a non-senior.
The four - South
Carolina State junior guard Roderick
Blakney (MEAC), Texas Southern jun
ior guard Randy Bolden (SWAC), St.
Paul's sophomore forward Antwain
Smith (CIAA), and Tuskegee junior for
ward/center Fabian Spencer (SIAC) -
were named last week to the first team of
the Black College Sports Pace '"Baad"
Team of all-stars along with St.
Missing Out
A game of their own
Black college NBA pros
pects will have a game of their
own to show off their skills to
professional scouts when the
Second Annual Mobil Oil
Black College All Star Basket
ball Classic is played May 3 at
the new basketball arena at
Morehouse.
Target Sports Marketing
is putting on the event again
this year and will have a final
team roster by next week, said
executive producer LaShun
Lawson. Last year's game was
nationally televised on the
Prime TV Network. Plans to
televise this year's game have
not been finalized, she said.
Term. St. Sports Photo
Coppin St. Sports Photo
M & M: Tennesse State's Monty Wilson (left) and Coppin State's Terquin Mott, two
of the better black college players, will miss the PIT but may get shots to play at NBA
Draft Camps in Phoenix or Chicago.
Augustine's sophomore forward
LaFonte Moses.
Two seniors, Clark Atlanta's Wil
liam Burr and Coppin State's Reggie
Welch, were named to the "Baad" sec
ond team.
Ctherblack college seniors that may
have merited an invite are: 1997 All-
MEACand 1996 MEAC MVP Terquin
Mott of Coppin State who declared for
the draft as a junior but returned for his
senior season; former All-Chio Valley
Conference guard Monty Wilson of
Tennessee State, who played only eight
games this year because of a stress frac
ture but averaged 18.6 points; Ali-CIAA
selections Mario Haskett of St. Paul's
and Rodney Carmichael of Norfolk
State; All-SWAC forward Derrick
McGriff of Alabama State and All-
SIAC selections James Crutcher of
Kentucky State and Bethel Hendricks
of Alabama A&M.
NBA CAMPS FOR TOP COLLEGE PROSPECTS
AND NBA DRAFT DATE
Nke Desert Classic
April 14-18
America West Arena
Phoenix, AR
Pre-Draft Camp
June 3-6
Moody Bible College
Chicago, IL
NBA Draft
June 27
Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, NC
BCSP Notes
▼ Central Intercollegiate Athletic Asso
ciation (CIAA) Compliance Coordinator
Patrick Carter has resigned to take a simi
lar position with the Southwestern Athletic
Conference (SWAC). Carter, 33, a
Grambling, La. native and 1985 graduateof
Grambling State University, replaces Dell
Robinson who left last fall for a similar
position with the Western Athletic Confer
ence (WAC). Carter had served in the CIAA
office since 1991. Before joining the confer
ence office, Carter worked as compliance
coordinator at CIAA member, Virginia
State.
▼ National Rainbow Coalition Commission
on Fairness in College Athletics Chairman,
Charles S. Farrell, will moderate a panel on
"Exploring and Enhancing Black College
Sports" at the national conference of the
National Assocition for Equal Opportunity
in Higher Education (NAFEO) in Washing
ton, D. C., April 13. Panel members include
Southwestern Athletic Conference
(SWAC) Commissioner, Dr. James Frank,
Florida A&M University President, Dr.
Frederick Humphries and Grambling
State University Head Football Coach,
Eddie Robinson.
SAT Clinics scheduled
for prospective athletes
The Rainbow/PUSH Coa
lition is again joining the
Princeton Review Foundation
in sponsoring Scholastic Apti
tude Test (SAT) clinics during
the month of April in 45 cities
across the U. S.
The event is designed to
help high school athletes,
coaches and counselors under
stand the confusing require
ments and scholarship implica
tions of the NCAA’s academic
standards, known as Proposi
tion 48. It is free to all partici
pants but organizers say call
early to enroll because thesemi-
nars fill up early.
The clinic gives student/
athletes the opportunity to take
a full-length SAT administered
under actual test conditions. A
computer analysis of each
student's strengths and weak
nesses will be provided. The
clinic will also feature area
coaches and celebrities along
with Princetown Review in
structors who will give a semi
nar on tips on how to beat the
SAT, so students can improve
their scores.
Howard University head
men's head basketball coach
Mike McLease and George
Washington University head
men’s basketball coach Mike
Jarvis, will be on hand at the
Washington, D. C. seminar at
American University.
Each student will also re
ceive a guide to NCAA eligibil
ity requirements; the Princetown
Review's book, Cracking the
SAT, to follow-up and build on
what is taught at the clinics, and
a free year's subscription to the
Student Athletic Information
Link (SAIL), an on-line recruit
ing service for college athletes.
Additionally, the State
Farm Insurance Companies will
give 100 scholarships to stu
dents attending the 45 clinics to
take a full six-week Princetown
Review Prep Course.
Listed at the right is a list of
contact persons for times and
dates of the clinics.
CONTACT THESE NAMES FOR TIMES, DATES AND LOCATIONS
CITIES
CONTACT
TELEPHONE
Albuquerque, NM
Peggy Haynes
505-889-9661
Amherst, MA
Carin Zinter
413-584-6849
Atlanta, GA
Victoria Printz
404-233-0980
Austin, TX
Jennifer Lynn
512-474-8378
Baltimore, MD
Karl Englevist
202-797-1410
Baton Rouge, LA
Cathryn Still
504-925-3040
Boston, MA
Reed Talada
617-558-2828
Buffalo, NY
David Stewart
716-839-4391
Charlotte, NC
Eric Moore
704-334-1482
Chicago, IL
Mairin Ocheltree
773-868-4400
Cleveland, OH
Donna Majer
216-360-0100
College Station, TX
Kevin Collins
409-696-9099
Columbus, OH
Mike McLean
614-488-2929
Dallas, TX
Kara Name
214-890-0099
Denver, CO
Jonathan Tofel
303-939-9100
Detroit, Ml
Stephanie Fong
313-663-2163
Gainesville, FL
Jack Myers
352-372-5402
Hartford, CN
Tom Fris
518-458-2657
Hemstead, LI
Tricia Moiler
516-271-3400
Houston, TX
Fred Bentsen
713-688-5500
Indianapolis, IN
Jay Rosner
805-682-3670
Los Angeles, CA
Jay Rosner
805-682-3670
Miami, FL
Neill Seltzer
305-662-1464
Minneapolis, MN
George Pace
773-935-1505
Montclain, NJ
Rob Cohen
609-683-0082
Nashville, TN
Wade McKinney
615-269-5033
New Orleans, LA
Cathryn Still
504-865-1060
New York, NY
Sharon Laidlaw
212-685-1500
Oklahoma City, OK
Vanessa Hedrick
405-360-3994
Philadelphia, PA
Rodi Steinig
215-243-1400
Phoeniz, AR
Jeri Samson
602-967-7209
Pittsburgh, PA
Audrey Olmer
412-241-4221
Providence, Rl
Julie Salamon
401-861-5080
Raleigh, Durham, NC
Patty Krebs
919-967-7209
Salt Lake City, UT
Daniel Burton
801-379-0622
San Antonio, TX
Gretchen Ulrich
210-824-8378
San Diego, CA
Sonya Petrie
619-558-0500
San Francisco, CA
Andrew Tom
510-845-7900
San Jose, CA
Rick Sliter
415-843-0968
Seattle, WA
Shane Burnett
206-548-1100
Or call 1-800-2-Review for more information.