Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Morgan State football back in contention for MEAC championship

BALTIMORE, Maryland -- A week ago, the Morgan State football team didn't seem to have a shot at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship. Now, the Bears are back in contention.

Morgan State’s 24-23 victory against North Carolina A&T on Saturday helped the team improve to 4-6 overall and 4-2 in the league. Coupled with a 27-24 loss by No. 18 Bethune-Cookman (8-2, 5-1) to Norfolk State, the Bears now trail the Wildcats and South Carolina State (7-3, 5-1) by one game in the conference standings.

“There’s still a lot of football to be played,” Morgan State coach Donald Hill-Eley said Tuesday during the MEAC conference call. “There’s still a couple weeks of football to be played, and [the race for the league championship] exists more than it did before Bethune-Cookman lost to Norfolk. Bethune-Cookman’s a good team, and good teams respond to adversity. So I’m sure Coach [Brian] Jenkins understands what he has to do. He’s proven that year in and year out, and he’ll have his guys ready to play and they’ll fight to maintain their championship and everybody else will scratch and fight to try to get it.”

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