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A SPORTS/The Charlotte Post Thursday, October 9, 1997 For the Week of October 7 through October 13, 1996 HAMPTON PIRACY Hampton Sports Photo TAYLOR: Has Pirates trying to escape with ME AC booty. T FORMER CIAA KINGPINS RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER MEAC COMPETITION UNDER THE BANNER WHATS GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS CLOSING IN: Jackson State wide receiver Corey Bradford is closing in on school records of some well known alumni. Through six games Bradford, a Clinton, La., native and Hinds Junior College transfer playing his first and only season for the Tigers, has hauled in 31 catches for 759 yards (24.4 yards per catch) and nine touchdowns. He is in hot pursuit of the JSU record of 11 TD catches in a sea son set by former Tiger and NFL great Willie Richardson in 1962 and tied by Tiger standout and NFL all-pro Harold Jackson in Jackson State Sports Photo BRADFORD: First- year senior threatening records set by JSU greats. 1966. Richardson, the Tigers only 1,000-yard receiver in his tory, set the receiving yardage record in 1960 amassing 1,227 yards. Bradford, at 6-2, 205, runs a 4,3 40-yard dash and has pro .scouts making frequent trips to the JSU practice and press box. TIGER REINS: Dr. Vivian Fuller, a 1977 gradu ate of Fayetteville State University who also held positions in physical education and athletics at Bennett College and North Carolina A&T State University, has been named the new athletic director at Tennessee State University. Fuller replaces Howard Gentry, Jr., who stepped down in June to take another position at the university. Fuller has been the AD at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago for the past five years, and was associate AD at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1987-92. She began her career as a physi cal education instructor and intramural director at Bennett in 1978 and went on to A&T where she served in student/athlete academic advisement, earning a promotion to assistant AD. She is a nationally known speaker on many women's sports- related topics and has served on a number of NCAA commit tees including the management council which aids in govern ing the entire organization. RETURN TO GLORY. Texas Southern University has named Peggy Stapleton as their new women's head basketball coach. Stapleton, a Shreveport, La. native, was the head coach at Klein Forest High School and has served as an assistant at Rice University and the University of Houston. She played collegiately at Texas A&M during the late 1970s and still holds a few of that school's scoring and rebounding records. Her first head coaching position was at Brookshire Royal High School in Brookshire, Tx., where she compiled a record of 116-26 in four years. Stapleton said she hopes to return the Lady Tigers to their glory days when she said TSU beat her Texas A&M team on a regular basis. In the 1980-81 season, TSU advanced to the NAIA finals. The pro gram has gone through two coaches and won only seven games in the last four years. She replaces Dwalah Fisher, the head volleyball coach at TSU who compiled a 1-26 record in one season. THE STAT CORNER WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS NFL TEAMS WITH MOST BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS ©AZEEZ Communications, Inc. VOL. TV, NO. 8 BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL (Results, Standings and Weekly Honors) SCORES AAlabamaA&M 38, Morehouse 14 Albany State 41, Savannah State 3 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 20, Alcorn St. 10 Bloomsburg 68. Cheyney 6 Bowie State 10, Gannon 7, OT Central Oklahoma 51, Langston 0 Delaware St. 35, Beth.-Cookman 14 Fort Valley State 27, Clark Atlanta 6 Grambling St, 33, Prairie View A&M 6 Hampton 18, Florida A&M 15 Jackson State 55, Texas Southern 49 Johnson C. Smith 44, Benedict 15 Livingstone 41, Winston-Salem St. 7 Morris Brown 32, Miles 30 N.C, A&T 49, Tennessee State 37 N.C. Central 38, Fayetteville State 13 S. Carolina St. 34, Morgan St. 27, OT Southern 27, Alabama State 16 Tuskegee 42, Kentucky State 21 Va. Union 13, Elizabeth City State 6 W. Va. State 33, Fairmont State 28 CIAA Central iNTERcoLUEGiATe Athletic Association Livingstone NC Central Virginia Union Virginia State JC Smith Fayetteville St. WSSU Elizabeth City Bowie State CONF W L 4 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 W L 6 0 CIAA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK OFFENSE REGGIE JOHNSON, Jr. (WR) - Hampton Connected with QB Pemell Wilder on three passes for 166 yards and two touch downs the longest an 85-yarder. DEFENSE JARVIS DAVIS, Soph. (DB) • Fayetteville State - Had nine total tackles including one for loss of 16 yards, one sack and an interception returned 19 yards for a score. MEAC Hampton SC State Delaware State 1 Florida A&M 1 Morgan State 1 NO A&T 0 Bethune-Cookman 0 Howard 0 •Norfolk State 0 CONF W L 3 0 AU. W L T 4 1 0 4 0.0 3 2 0 4 1 2 3 3 1 3 2 1 3 2 3 ‘Not eligible for championship MEAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK OFFENSE CHARLES JACKSON, Jr, (RB) - Hampton • Ran for 147 yards on 25 carries including 44 in the winning drive as Hampton beat FAMU 18-15. DEFENSE CHRIS MCNEIL, Sr, (DE), N.C. A&T- Had five unassisted tackles including three sacks and recovered a fumble as the Aggies downed Tennessee State 49-37. OI A ^ Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference W L T W L T Albany State Alabama A&M Miles Fort Valley Kentucky St. Tuskegee Morris Brown Clark Atlanta Savannah St. Morehouse SIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK OFFENSE MICHAEL scon, Soph. (RB) - Tuskegee - Gained 259 yards on 22 car ries and scored four TDs from 27, 32, 3 and 75 yards.. DEFENSE REGINALD JACKSON, Jr. (LB), Savannah State - Had 15 tackles ij solos) three for -15 yards and fumble recovery. MARCUS WIGGINS, Jr, (LB) Tuskegee - Seven tackles, three sacks and two forced fumbles. SWAC W L T W L T Southern Jackson State •Ark. Pine Bluff Texas Southern Alcorn State Grambling Prairie View Miss. Valley Alabama State Ineligible for conference championship SWAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK OFFENSE MARK WASHINGTON, Soph. (QB) - Jackson State -Threw for 432 yards (26 of 40) and five TDs in a relief role and scored the tying TD to lead JSU to 55-49 overtime win over Texas Southern. DEFENSE ERIC MITCHELL, Soph., (LB) Alcorn State - Had 16 tackles, six solos, one QB sack for -9 yards and an interception in the Braves 20-10 loss to Arkansas Pine Bluff. INDEPENDENTS W W. Va. State 3 Benedict 2 Langston 1 Tennessee State 1 Cheyney 0 Lane 0 0 • 0. ' 0 0’ - 0 0 BCSP PLAYERS OF THE WEEK OFFENSE TYRONE BUnERRELD, (WR/KR) • Tennessee State • Returned four kick; offs for 132 yards including a 57-yarder and caught two passes for 127 yards including an 86-yafder for a TD, DEFENSE NA Shakeup again at the top Hampton's 18-15 upset of BCSP #1 Florida A&M means Southern (4-0, 5-0) ascends to the top spot in the BCSP Top Ten and becomes the fourth team to occupy the position this year following Howard, Jackson State and FAMU to the perch. Southern rose to No. 9 in the Sports Network Div. I-AA poll and is one of three unde feated teams left in black col lege football. Three teams join Southern in the I-AA poll; Jackson State (3-0, 5-1) at #15, Florida A&M (1-1, 4-1) at #17 and Hampton (3-0, 4-1), who entered the poll for the first time this year at the 25th and last spot. Hampton survived a mur derous opening month's sched ule that saw them take on and down the three teams thought to be the cream of the MEAC crop. Their only loss was to 23rd ranked Williams & Mary, then ranked No.3. They're now in the driver’s seat for the con ference championship but their national ranking will gel a good test this week when the Pirates travel to Liberty (1p.m.). Southern and Jackson State have a week off to ponder their Oct. 25th matchup in Jackson. FAMU has another lough dale at North Carolina A&T (1:30), which found their offense in a 49-37 win over Tennessee State. BCSP TOP TEN 1. SOUTHERN (4-0) - Defeated Alabama State 27-16. NEXT: Idle before date at Jackson State on 10/25. 2. HAMPTON (4-1) - Journey to respectability done as they toughed out 18-15 win over No.1 FAMU. NEXT; At Liberty. 3. LIVINGSTONE (6-0) - Rolled again, this time over WSSU 41 -7. NEXT: At Johnson C. Smith. 4. ALBANY STATE (5-0) - No trouble with Savannah State, 41-3. NEXT: A home date against second place Alabama A&M. 5. FLORIDA A&M (4-1) - Battled gallantly though shorthanded against Hampton. NEXT: Another tough date at N. C. A&T. 6. JACKSON STATE (5-1) - Needed overtime to stop Tex. Southern, 55-49. NEXT: A week off to get ready for Southern. 7. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE (4-0) - Needed overtime to dispose of Morgan State, 34-27. NEXT: Norfolk State for Homecoming. 8. VIRGINIA STATE (3-1) - Rested. NEXT: A homecoming date against Fayetteville State. 9. N. C. A&T (3-1) - Outscored Tennessee State 49-37. NEXT: The Rattlers of FAMU come calling. 10. ALABAMA A&M (4-1) - Knocked off Morehouse, 38-14. NEXT: Try their hand at conference leader Albany State. Also Receiving Votes: Delaware State Albany State (2-0 SIAC, 5-0) and Livingstone (3-0 CIAA, 6-0) are the other unde feated black college teams. They sit atop their respective conferences and are the only ranked Div. II black college squads. ASC moved up from sev enth to tenth in this week’s D-II poll and held on to the No.3 spot in the South Region rank ings. The Golden Rams host Alabama A&M (2-0, 4-1) whose only loss is to North Alabama (49-20). A&M will be trying to play spoiler since they've been barred by the con ference from postseason play. It should be a good matchup (1:30). Livingstone rose from 20th to 14ih in the poll and climbed to No. 4 in the South Region. GAMES THIS WEEK October 11,1997 Albany State vs. Alabama A&M at Albany, GA Ark.-Pine Bluff vs. Tex. Southern at Pine Bluff, AR Fort Valley St. vs. Miles at Fort Valley, GA Grambling St. vs. Miss. Valley St. at Grambling, LA Liberty vs. Hampton at Lynchburg, VA N.C. A&T vs. Florida A&M at Greensboro, NC Savannah State vs. Morris Brown at Savannah, GA Tennessee State vs. E. Kentucky at Nashville, TN W. Liberty State vs. W.Va. State at W. Liberty, WV Winston-Salem St. vs. N.C. Central at W-Salem, NC CLASSICS 44th Gateway Classic Bethune-Cookman vs. Howard at Jacksonville, FL 62nd 'Skegee-Morehouse Classic Tuskegee vs. Morehouse at Columbus, GA HOMECOMINGS Alcorn State vs. Prairie View A&M at Lorman, MS Cheyney vs. Kutztown at Cheyney, PA Clark Atlanta vs. Benedict at Atlanta, GA Elizabeth City St vs. Bowie State at Eliz. City, NC Johnson C. Smith vs. Livingstone at Charlotte, NC Lane vs. Kentucky State at Jackson, TN Langston vs. Hardin-Simmons at Langston, OK S. Carolina St. vs. Norfolk St. at Orangeburg, SC Virginia State vs. Fayetteville St. at Petersburg, VA 1:30p 7:00p 1:30p 7:00p 1;00p 1:30p 5:30p 1:30p 1:00p 7:30p 1:00p 7:00p 1:30p 1:00p 2;00p 2;00p 1:30p 3:00p 2:00p 1;30p 1:30p The Blue Bears, who appear headed toward an undefeated championship season, are at Johnson C. Smith (1-1, 2-3) BCSP Notes T The latest in rumors has everyone from Florida A&M's Billy Joe and Hampton's Joe Taylor to the Historically Black Collegiate Coalition's Craig Cason headed to Grambling to do the impossible - replace a legend. Coach Eddie Robinson. Don't believe the hype. It would be nice if one of these luminaries could step in and maintain the school's image as the premier black college grid program in the nation but don’t count on it. Each is in the process of building something very special at the institutions they currently represent. ▼ Speaking of the HBCC, the organization has announced the creation of the Gilette-HBCC Scholar-Athlete Team that will recognize stel lar student/athletes at HBCUs who excel in aca demics and athletics. The Gilette company wil) give scholarships to the school of each person, selected to advance the goals of each institution. Selectioin is a four phase process involving nomination, initial selection, final selection and award recognition. One female and one male student will be chosen from each of the four black college conferences (CIAA, MEAC, SIAC and SWAC) as well as independent institutions. A $3,000 check will be donated by the HBCC on behalf of the Gilette Company to the general scholarship fund of the schools. The scholar/ath letes will be featured on HBCCs Black College Sports Today on ESPN in April. HOW THEY DID IT Overtimes, last second finishes make for exciting sixth week of black college play while limiting the Rams (1-2 CIAA, 2-3) to 182. - HAMPTON 18 - Florida A&M 15 Acie Wyatt capped a fourth quarter comeback as he kicked a 35-yard field goal with 12 seconds left to give Hampton a 18-15 win over beat-up BCSP No. 1 Florida A&M and establish themselves as favorites for the MEAC championship. The Pirates (3-0 MEAC, 4-1) trailed 15-7 in the fourth quarter before QB Roy Johnson engineered a 75-yard drive culminating in a 20-yard scoring pass to Kyle Payne. Johnson then ran in a two-point conversion to tie the score at 15 with 5:53 left. After a FAMU punt, Johnson led a 10- play 71-yard drive for the winning field goal. RB - ALABAMA A&M 38 - Morehouse 14 Alabama A&M sent Doug Williams' Morehouse (0-3 SIAC, 2-4) squad to their fourth straight defeat 38-14 at homecoming in Huntsville. A&M QB Valeska Johnson threw for 241 yards and three TDs while Cornell Matthews scored from 75 yards to pace the Bulldogs (2-0 SIAC, 4-1). Hampton Sports Photo JOHNSON: Leads Pirates to two fourth quarter scores to knock off FAMU. Minnesota Vikings 7 Oakiand Raiders 6 _• ; Phiiadeiphia Eagies 6 Pittsburgh Steeiers 5 •: San Diego Chargers 4 *; Arizona Cardinais 4 Baitimore Ravens 4 Jacksonviile Jaguars 4 Detroit Lions 3 Miami Dolphins 3 New England Patriots 3 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 3 Tennessee Oilers 3 NFL LEADING RECEIVERS > ! Herman Moore, Detroit 45 596 13.2 4 J; : Tim Brown, Oakland 40 609 15.2 4 Gris Carter, Minnesota 39 451 11.6 6 Jake Reed, Minn. iGr.mbnng) 37 576 15.6 4 Andre Risen, Kansas City 33 471 13.3 3 Jimmy Smith, JVilie UKiuorst.) 32 496 15.3 3 Charles Jackson led the way, rushing for 147 yards on 25 carries while Johnson completed 14 of 22 passes for 207 yards but was intercepted four times. The Pirates also lost two fumbles. The Rattlers (1-1 MEAC, 4-1), who were missing several key players injured in last week's win over Howard, were stymied by the Hampton defense. QB Oteman Sampson, harassed all day by the Pirate defensive line, completed only 14 of 29 passes for 125 yards and one TD. The Rattlers (1-1 MEAC, 4-1) were limited speedwise as they played without starting WR John Rutledge, and KR Undre' Williams and lost WR Tariq Qayim early in the game. - GRAMBLING 33- Prairie View 6 Grambling's defense grabbed seven turnovers and lim ited the Panthers to just 77 yards of offense as the Tigers put win No.2 in the books in Coach Eddie Robinson's final year. An Al Lipscomb/State Fair Classic crowd of 55,119 watched Robinson’s G-Men put on their best offensive show of the year against PVA&M which lost their 72nd consecutive game. QB Michael Kornblau threw for 170 yards and two TDs for the Tigers (1-1 SWAC, 2-2). a 93-yard scoring run from Thomas Sieh early in the second quarter before Washington started his heroics. Before the half Washington hit Darryl Heidelburg on a 21-yard TD strike, hooked up with Bradford on a 10 yard score and connected with WR Michael Swanigan on a nine-yard scoring play to send JSU into halftime trailing 35-28. TSU QB Jarrett Harper scored Jackson State Photo' WASHINGTON: To the rescue. - ALBANY STATE 41 - Savannah State 3 Albany State's Vincent Huff hauled in TD passes of 41, 33 and 64 yards from QB Purvis Jackson to lead Albany State (2-0 SIAC, 5-0) to a 41-3 rout of Savannah State (0-1 SIAC, 2-3). - S. CAROLINA STATE 34 - Morgan State 27 South Carolina State (1-0 MEAC, 4-0) got a 21-yard TD pass from QB Reggie Curry to WR Johnny Loper in overtime to propel the Bulldogs over Morgan State 34-27. Morgan (1-1 MEAC, 2-3) fought back from a 27-13 fourth quarter deficit to send the game in over time on Moses Cody's 84-yard TD reception from Willie McGirt with 4:13 to play. Cody also scored on a 70-yard run in the third quarter. Curry scored two rushing touchdowns for the Bulldogs. on two short third quarter runs to give TSU a 49-28 lead but Washington came back to hit Bradford on his third' scoring catch from 18 yards just before the end of the third quarter. He then hit Heidelburg again from 25 yards out nearly four minutes into the fourth quarter- before his one yard run tied the score at 49 with 1:23 left in regulation. In the overtime, TSU fumbled the ball away on their possession while JSU got a three-yard run from Destry Wright for the final margin. Of the TSU Tigers 420 rushing yards, Sieh had 218 yards on 19 car ries while D. J. Bradley added 132 yards on 14 carries. JSU had 721 yards of total offense. Wright ran for 142 yards (15 carries) while three JSU receivers topped the 100-yard mark (Bradford 10-200-3TDs, Heidelburg 9- 151-2 TDs, Sylvester Morris 7-126). - LIVINGSTONE 41 - Winston-Salem State 7 Livingstone once again ran roughshod over the compe tition slaying Winston-Salem State 41-7 in Statesville, NC. Black college rushing leader Wilmont Perry ran for two TDs and totalled 118 yards rushing making him the first player this season to top 1,000 yards rushing (1,081) while teammate Chris Williams added 162 yards on 14 carries and threw a 13-yard halfback option pass for a score to Shawn Foster. QB Pernell Wilder added two TD throws to WR Reggie Johnson as the Bears (3-0 CIAA, 5-0) piled up 468 yards of offense - JACKSON STATE 55 - Texas Southern 49, OT In an old-fashioned SWAC shootout, Jackson State back up QB Mark Washington came off the bench to throw for 432 yards (26 of 40) and five touchdowns to rescue the Tigers in a 55-49 overtime win over Texas Southern. JSU (3-0 SWAC, 5-1) survived several big plays and twice came back from 21-point deficits to pull out the victory. Washington replaced ineffective starter Grailyn Pratt with the Tigers trailing 28-7 early in the second quarter. Pratt, who opened the scoring with a 71-yard pass play to Corey Bradford, had thrown two first quarter interceptions, one of which was returned 27 yards by Leon McBey for a TD with 3:11 to play to put TSU up 21-7. TSU (2-1 SWAC, 2-3) had gotten a 15 yard TD run by QB Jarrett Harper and a 74-yard punt return TD from Joey Jamison, and added - MORRIS BROWN 32 - Miles 30 Morris Brown (1-2 SIAC, 2-4) scored the game’s final 25 points to delight the homecoming fans at Herndon Stadium by pulling out a 32-30 comeback win over Miles (3-1 SIAC, 4-2). The game-winner came on a 31 yard pass from Jerome Weaks to Breton Jones with just :08 seconds left. Weaks passed for 231 yards and rushed for two TDs. - N. CAROLINA A&T 49, Tennessee State 37 North Carolina A&T rushed for 365 yards and utilized eight Tennessee State turnovers to down the Tigers 49- 37 before 59, Oil fans at Indianapolis' Circle City Classic. The Aggies (0-1 MEAC ,3-1) were led by RB Michael Basnight who ran for 139 yards on 29 carries and one score while little-used freshman Temell Purkette had 84 yards on 10 carries and two TDs including a 65-yarder to open the scoring. TSU (1-0’ OVC, 1-4) lost their fourth black college game of the . year.
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