Saturday, November 3, 2012

ECSU Vikings looking for strong finish

ELIZABTH  CITY, North Carolina  -- A second straight Northern Division title is great, but the Elizabeth City State football team is not done yet.

“We’ve got one horse in the barn, now we need to get the other two,” Vikings coach Waverly Tillar said.

Stalls are reserved in the ECSU barn for the CIAA championship and a berth in the NCAA Division II tournament.

Whether the Vikings can corral those two horses will be decided next week when they meet unbeaten, defending champion Winston-Salem State (9-0) in the CIAA title game in Durham.

Spring an upset over the Rams, who are ranked No. 2 in Division II, and ECSU, which lost last year’s championship game to Winston-Salem State 38-18, might get a return trip to the national tournament.

That’s assuming the Vikngs, whose 6-3 record is not the resume of a playoff team, win at Bowie State in today’s regular-season finale.

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