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mmmmm 4C SPORTS/tCl^e Cliarlottt $ost Thursday, May 13, 2004 For the Week of May 11 through May 17, 2004 MOVES DelState Sports Photo GREGORY: Removal of DSD AD part of plan for Hornets to upgrade athletic program. ▼ STILLMAN, ELIZABETH CITY GET NEW COACHES; DSU SEEKING NEW DIRECTION UNDER THE BANNER WHATS GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS Stillman Sports Photo DOUGLAS: Alabama and NBA star takes the reins at Stillman. STILLMAN NABS DOUGLAS: Stillman College officially announced last week it has hired legendary Leighton, Alabama native and former NBA player. Leon Douglas, to lead the school's men's basketball pro gram. "This is a new day for Stillman and our basketball pro gram," said Dr.* Ernest McNealey. president of Stillman College. "Coach Douglas under stands the history, uniqueness and excitement of the program and brings thirty years of experi ence to this program. You can't top that when it comes to finding a coach that can motivate and turn things around." McNealey said. Douglas has had a stellar career. He is a four-time All- SEC selection from the University of Alabama, the first Alabama player to achieve that distinction. He played in the NBA for seven years where he was a first round NBA draft pick, fourth overall, for the Detroit Pistons from 1976-80, then later for the Kansas City Kings. "My emphasis is on stu dent athletes to assist and help them grow both athletically and academically," said Douglas. "People can expect our basketball program to be high-scoring and fast-paced. There is a rich tradition at this school and I look forward to con necting with the players, staff and the community," Douglas said. "I made a commitment to Alabama and I am here to reestablish my roots. I have been all over the world for thir ty years and now I'm back," Douglas responded on why he came back to his home .state. Douglas played for the Alabama Crimson Tide where he served as team captain in 197.5-1976. His active career allowed him to be selected as a member of the Intercontinental Cup Team and selected SEC Player of the Year in 1975 and 1976. He also continued expanding his career in the Italian Basketball League for eight years. Before accepting the head coaching position at Stillman, Douglas was employed by Oakland Intermediate School District in Bloomfield, Michigan. OWENS COMES TO ECSU: The Elizabeth City State Athletic Department has named Tara Owens its new head women's basketball coach. Owens comes to ECSU from Cheyney (PA) University where she served an assistant coach for two years and the head coach for the past six seasons. At Cheyney, she also held the title of Senior Woman Administrator and Project Administrator/Activity Director for the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP). A 1993 gradu ate of Virginia State. Owens Lady Trojans' Coach Bertha Cheyney Sports Photo OWENS: From Cheyney to Elizabeth City State, played under former Cummings from 1988-1991. She received her BS from VSU in Physical Education/Health and completed her Masters of Education in Administration and Supervision at Cheyney in 1998. She will officially assume her new post at ECSU on August 1. Coach Owens inherits a Lady Viking program that finished la.st season with a 13-14 overall record, good for third place in the CIAA Ea.stem Division. GREGORY MOVEDi Delaware state has announced that Dr. Hallie Gregory, who had served as director of athletics for the past four years, has accepted a new position at the school. Effective April 30. Gregory will be visiting associate professor in the College of Education and Sport Sciences. Gregory’s departure is part of a plan by DSU President .Allen Sessoms to expand the efforts of the athletic department. Sessoms told the Delaware State News that he had met with Gregory in February about athletic department activities. "We're looking for someone with a broad vision who will spend more time on organizing, rais ing funds and working on gender-equity issues." Sessoms .said. Sessoms has often .said that he wants athletics to be a focal point of the university. Part of that effort includes the desire for the school's football team to jump from NCAA Division 1-AA to I-A classification. A few days prior Gregory's departure, university officials appeared before the stale legislature requesting a contribution of $40 million to a $92.1 million sports and entertainment complex that will be shared with the City of Dover. Plans include a 14,5(X)-seat football stadium and 7.500-seat civic center. BCSP Notes Hampton sweeps MEAC GREENSBORO. N.C. - Hampton University captured both the men's and women's 2004 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference All-Sports Awards, the league announced on Wednesday. The Lady Pirates won their third consecutive Mary McLeod Bethitne Award, while the men picked up their second straight Talmadge Layman Hill Award. The University will receive a $25,000 check for each award. Hampton has won six overall All- Sports Trophies since joining the MEAC in 1996. — Mary McLeod Belhune and Talmadge Layman Hill Awards are emblematic of the overall strength of the MEAC institu- tions men's and women's athletics programs," stated MEAC Commissioner Dr. Dennis Thomas. "I com- Hami University. Florida A&M leads all MEAC schools with nine awards from 1993-2000. Hampton and Howard have three each, Delaware Slate has two and South Carolina State has one. The men's All-Sports Award is named after the late Talmadge Layman Hill, a former play er and coach at Morgan State, and former chair man of the MEAC Steering and Planning Committee, as well as the league's first President. Howard University was the recipi ent of the first Talmadge Layman Hill Award in 1972. South Carolina State has won a league leading 11 HillAwards(1974-1984),followed by Florida A&M with 10. Delaware State, Hampton and Howard have three each, North Carolina A&T has two and Morgan Slate and Norfolk State have one each. LANGE mend Hampton University for achieving excel lence in both their men's and women’s pro grams and winning both awards for the 2003- 04 academic year.’ Hampton's women provided much of the same from last season when they captured four of the eight MEAC women's championships and one second-place finish. In 2003-04 the Lady Pirates repeated as champions in basketball, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field and tennis, while taking second place in cross coun try. They finished with 69.5 total points. Howard was second in the women’s race with 62.5 points and Florida A&M finished third with 50.5 points. In the men's race, the Pirates edged out Norfolk State 55.5 to 54. Once again the out door track & field championship, the Pirates' only title, would push the Pirates to the top. Hampton finished in the top four in all other championships. Florida A&M. who missed the cross country championships due to a bus acci dent and did not earn points for football, finished third with 46 points. The Mary McLeod Bethune Award, named after the founder of Bethune-Cookman College, is awarded to the top overall women's athletic program during the course of one full academic year. The first Mary McLeod Bethune Award was given in 1987 to Delaware State JSU's Lange tops Diamond Awardees Jackson State outfielder Bryant Lange leads a list of the top black college baseball per formers unveiled this week by BlackCollegeBaseball.com. Lange, a 5-11, 180-pound junior from Riverdale, Ga., who won both the player of the year and outstanding hitter awards in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, scorched pitchers for a .439 baiting average and also stole 29 bases in 31 attempts. He leads a list of awardees selected from nineteen Division I pro grams which included the SWAC, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Chicago State of the Mid- Continent and Savannah State. The Coach of the Year Award went to Prairie View A&M head coach Michael Robertson. In his second year at the helm, Robertson guided the Panthers into the BlackCollegeBasebalI.com rankings. The Panthers improved by leaps and bounds from a 2003 record of 10-45 to a 2004 record of 30-26. Delaware State junior hurler Shawn Phillips compiled an 8-2 record with a 2.19 ERA to earn the Pitcher of the Year Award. In 94.2 innings pitched, Phillilps walked 11 while strik ing out 92. Sports information directors and their base ball contacts are the ones that get the information on black college baseball out to the public. Stan Bradley of Maryland-Eastern Shore got out timely press releases for every UMES game and earned the site's SID of the year award. BlackCollegeBaseball.com is billed as the home of black college baseball and was started by founder Ruffin Bell, III because " there was no central media outlet available to Division I HBCU baseball tedms. It lets me tackle or disseminate issues about Black College Baseball,” he says on the web site. Bell explains that outside of the MEAC and SWAC. there is one black head coach at the over 160 NCAA Div. I institutions. That one head coach, former Major League batting star Tony Gwynn at San Diego State, donated the money for the school’s Tony Gwynn Stadium and his son plays there. He also started this fall. The much publicized debate over blacks earning a chance to coach in NCAA football is worse in baseball, says Bell. The site only covers Division 1 black college teams for now and includes a message board for discussion and dialogue on related issues and events. Plans are to expand the site as scores and articles from other conferences are forwarded. COACH Michael Robertson, Prairie View A&M PLAYER Bryant Lange, OF, Jackson State PITCHER Shawn Phillips, RHP, Delaware State SiD Stan Bradley, Maryland-Eastern Shore FIRST TEAM IB, Juan Figueroa, Bethune Cookman College 2B, Juan Serrano, Norfolk State University 3B, Carlos Garcia, Bethune Cookman College SS, Justin Riggs, Coppin State University C, Ralph Johnson, Jackson State University OF, Bryant Lange, Jackson State University OF, Sebastian Boucher, Bethune Cookman College OF. Stephen Washington, Prairie View A&M University PITCHERS SP. Francisco Gomez, Bethune Cookman College SP. Shawn Phillips, Delaware State University SP, Michael Hauff, North Carolina A&T University SP, Jose Pena, Southern University RP, Nick Bitter, Delaware Slate University RP, A.J. Corbin, Norfolk State University SECOND TEAM 1B, Byron Carter, Prairie View A&M University 2B, Corey Wimberley, Alcorn State University 3B, Andrew Toussaint, Southern University ^S, Jermel Lomack, Prairie View A&M University C, Edgar Wilson, Coppin State University OF, James Cooper. Grambling State University OF, Roberto Rodriguez, Bethune Cookman College OF, Gerald Miller, Prairie View A&M University PITCHERS SP, Jarred Vaughn, Jackson State University SP, Ian Digiorgio. North Carolina A&T University SP, Jermaine Shack, Mississippi Valley State Univ. SP, Steve Acuna, Mississippi Valley State Univ. RP, Colin In/ine, Bethune Cookman College RP, Andrew Cunha, Mississippi Valley State Univ. J&W, Benedict, Hampton score at NMCGC PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (PGA.com) - Johnson & Wales University of North Miami Beach, Fla., won the Div. I standings with a team-total of 22-under-par 842 behind the impressive play of sophomore Adam Scrimenti and junior Mike Welch at 2004 National Minority College Golf Championship at the PGA Golf Club (North Course) in Port St. Lucie. Fla. Scrimenti of Sarasota, Fla., won the Div. I medalist honors by turning in a 6-under-par 66 for a Championship-total of 10-under-par 206. Robert Dinwiddie of Tennessee State shot a final round 7-under-par 65 to finish in second place with a ihree-day-toia! of 8- under-par 208. Scrimenli's team mate Welch of Quincy, Mass., who had led the first two rounds, ended the Championship in third place with a three-day-iotal of 7-under-par 209. "I started on the tenth hole and birdied holes Nos. 10. 13 and 14. I bogeyed two, got an eagle on four and then birdied six and seven. On hole No. 4. I hit a driver five wood to about 10 feet and made the putt for eagle," said Scrimenti. who has two other victories this season at the Bethune-Cookman College Coca Cola Classic and Cat Classic. "The first day I pulled well, the second day I hit the ball well and finally 1 pul everything together." Tennessee State finished in sec ond place with a team-total of 882, and last year's Div. 1 champions Bethune-Cookman finished in third place with a team-total of 887. • Benedict captured the Div. II title for the first lime at the NMCGC w'iih a team-total of 970. The Tigers were led by sophomore Demond Hale of South Bend, Ind., who scored a Championship-total of 15- over-par 231 to capture the Div. II medalist honors. "I had two strokes going into the final round but shot l-over on the front nine to fall into a tie with Adam (Hoffman of Lincoln) at the turn. He made some mistakes early and I got five up but then I made some mistakes to fall back to down to one. But it only takes one stroke to win." said Hale, who has never won medalist honors at a tournament before. "If Adam had made that birdie putt on the final hole we would be in a playoff, but he missed and it worked out my way." Fayetteville State finished in second place with a team-total of 991, while Lincoln (Mo.), was alone in third place with a team-total of 1044. In the Women's Division, University of Texas-Pan American recaptured the Championship title over the Jaguars of Spelman College by posting a three-day team-total of 955. Sophomore Stepanie Maynard, defending NMCGC Champion, led the Lady Broncs after coming from behind and firing a final round score of 2- over par 74. "I thought the playing condi tions were better this round probably because I was playing better and hit ting the pin rather than fifty feet from the pin," said Maynard, who is from Pflugerville. Texas. "I was super nervous going into the final round but everything came back and I am very happy." Sharah Davis of Hampton won the Women's Independent Division with a three-day-total of 252, while Greg Banks II of Alcorn State won the Men's Independent Division with a ihree- day-total of lO-over-par 226. More than 100 contestants from 24 colleges and universities com prised the field for the 18th National Minority College Golf Championship. The NMCG Championship is co-sponsored by The PGA of America and the National Minority College Golf Scholarship Fund of Cleveland. DIVISION I Johnson & Wales Tennessee State Bethune-Cookman Tex, Pan American Florida A&M 279-281-282-842 293-303-286-882 293- 302-292-887 294- 294-302-890 308-297-303-908 DIVISION I INDIVIDUAL Adam Scrimenti. J&W 70-70-66-206 (-10) Robert Dinwiddie, Tn.St. 72-71-65-208 (-8) Michael Welch, J&W 64-69-76-209 (-7) Diego Besga, J&W 71-71-70-212 (-4) Rudy Celedon, UTPA 72-68-74-214 (-2) Shaun McEwen, FAMU 72-69-73-214 (-2) DIVISION II Benedict Fayetteville St. Lincoln N. C. Central J. C. Smith St. Augustine's 322-324-324-970 325-346-326-997 356-336-352-1044 354-357-339-1050 400-386-357-1143 407-417-409-1233 DIVISION II INDIVIDUAL Demond Hale . BC 75-78-78-231 (+15) Adam Hoffman, LC T.J. Ralston, LC Chris Parker, JCSU Jon DeCarlo.FSU 79-76-77-232 (+16) 79-77-83-239 (+23) 83-80-77-240 (+24) 79-84-78-241 (+25) INDEPENDENT Men's Division Greg Banks, Ale. St. Doug Smith, L'ville Ron Thomas, B-CC Jason Still, FAMU Durin Williams, ASU 81-71-74-226 (+10) 77-80-75-232 (+16) 72-84-79-235 (+19) 77-78-81-236 (+20) 80-78-79-237 (+21) WOMEN'S DIVISION Texas-Pan American 316-328*311 -955 Spelman College 463-464-419-1346 WOMEN'S DIVISION INDIVIDUAL Stefanie Maynard. UTPA 79-79-74-232 (+16) Nicole Boychuk, UTPA 75-82-77-234 (+18) Daniela Cortes , UTPA 81-83-79-243 (+27) Eliz. Rodriguez, UTPA 81-84-82-247 (+31) Itziar Unanue, UTPA 85-86-81-252 (+36) INDEPENDENT WOMEN Sharah Davis, Hampton 83-86-83-252 Georgette Rolle, Alab. St. 85-90-83-258 Andia Winslow. Yale 92-82-84-258 Spring Sports Round-Up Southern, Alabama State take SWAC Track titles Standing coach while Grambling’s Anthony Dale (2nd, Javelin - 4th, Shot Pul) won the field award. Southern’s women literally ran away with ihe women's title but .4labama State's men nipped Southern to prevent a Jaguar sweep at the SWAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships staged over the weekend in Houston. Alabama State won the men’s title 131.5 to 122 over Southern, getting more than half its points on the strength of its sprinters. Jeremy Bateman, who was named the outstanding track performer, led finishes of 1-2-4 in the 100 meters. 1-2-3 in the 200 meters and a 4x 1 (K) relay first to pave the way for the Hornets’ vic tory. ASU coach Horace Crump was named the out- Firsts for Miss. Valley and Texas Southern Mississippi Valley State and Texas Southern took home first-ever SWAC championships respec tively in softball and baseball in conference spring sports competition over the weekend in Houston. MVSU got a 3-2 win over Southern Saturday to claim the first-ever softball title for the Lady Della Devils. The win, the second over Southern in the three-day tournament, secured the championship for MVSU head coach Lee Smith, named the tourney’s outstanding coach. Hitting star Balencia Young was named Mo.st Valuable Player while Alabama A&M's Tasha Sloan earned the outstanding pitcher award. The baseball championship Saturday was a show down between Texas Southern and Mississippi Valley State, who both got wins Friday over Southern to elim inate the three-time champion. MVSU beat TSU 7-6 early Saturday to force a deciding championship game but TSU erased any doubts by running away with an 18-1 victory. TSU's Mario DeLeon won both the outstanding hitter and most valuable player awards while teammate Isaac Daniels was selected as the outstanding pitcher. TSU manager Candy Robinson was named the top coach. O AZEEZ Corvnunicsbons. Inc. VOL. X. NO. 40
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