Wednesday, September 5, 2012

NCCU Eagles gain confidence with home win

DURHAM, North Carolina — Literally speaking, N.C. Central is having a winning season. Of course, the Eagles are 1-0, and their goal is to talk in terms of being on the plus side of .500 ball 10 games from now when the regular season wraps up.

NCCU struggled a year, finishing 2-9 for the team’s fourth straight losing season. It was NCCU coach Henry Frazier III’s first season with the team, and his squad didn’t win a game at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium.



On Saturday, Frazier finally delivered a home victory to NCCU fans, a 54-31 win over Fayetteville State. It was a long time coming, Frazier said.

“It was,” Frazier said. “I kind of went to the guys and talked to them about, ‘Hey, I’d like to get this one, guys.’ Normally, I treat all of the games the same. But after that was over with, I looked at the coaches and said we can check that one off our list. It’s important to me to put out a product our fans can be proud of.”

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