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LANDOVER, Maryland – Saturday was a record-setting day for a Norfolk State men’s track and field team accustomed to breaking records. The Spartans kept alive their own streak of consecutive MEAC titles Saturday, winning their seventh straight indoor championship at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex.
The Spartans finished with 161.5 points. Maryland Eastern Shore was second with 93.5. NSU won six of the seven races that were run on Saturday, and eight of the 10 track events during the meet.
Senior distance runner Josef Tessema earned MEAC Men’s Most Outstanding Runner honors for the second straight year. He repeated his trio of victories from 2011, winning the 5,000 meters on Friday and both the mile and 3,000 meters on Saturday. He set a meet record in the latter, finishing in 8 minutes, 34.21 seconds. That took more than 15 seconds off the previous meet record of David Kimani of Hampton in 2010 (8:49.99).
Tessema, who also ran a leg on the winning distance medley relay team Friday, contributed 32.5 points to NSU’s total.
That was one of five meet records tied or set during the meet by the Spartans, four of which came on Saturday. Senior Sean Holston earned a sweep of the 200 and 400 meters for the third straight year and broke his own meet record in both events Saturday. He clocked a 21.08 in the 200 and 47.24 in the 400. His previous meet records were 21.32 in the 200 from the 2010 championship, and 47.44 in the 400 from last year’s MEAC indoor
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Tennessee State’s football team will return to William Jasper Hale Stadium for the first time since 1998 to play Austin Peay on Sept. 15. The Tigers are tentatively scheduled to play two other games — Eastern Kentucky (Oct. 6) and Tennessee Tech (Oct. 27) — at the stadium on campus in the 2012 schedule released Thursday.
“As part of the university’s 100-year celebration we wanted to play at least one game at Hale Stadium and we know we are going to be able to do that,” Athletics Director Teresa Phillips said. “We’ll know over the next few months if we will have the people investment we’re hoping for and everything in place to play the other two games there as well.”
If the Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee Tech games are not played at Hale, they will be at LP Field, where the Tigers have played since 1999. Hale Stadium is currently being renovated.
The Tigers, 5-6 last season, will play at LP Field for the 14th annual John Merritt Classic vs. Florida A&M (Sept. 1) and homecoming vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Sept. 29).
CIAA
Livingstone 81, Saint Augustine's 64
Shaw 86, Fayetteville State 74
Winston Salem State 68, Johnson C. Smith 56
Virginia Union 87, Lincoln Pa. 76
Virginia State 67, Bowie State 57
SIAC
Albany State 65, Claflin 63
Benedict 64, Paine 55
Tuskegee 67, Kentucky State 49
Stillman 98, Lane 79
LeMoyne-Owen 91, Miles 73
Clark-Atlanta 85, Fort Valley State 69
GCAC
New Orleans 79, Southern-New Orleans 75
Xavier 68, Edward Waters 57
Philander Smith 101, Talladega 98
Fisk 64, Dillard 54
SWAC
Mississippi Valley State 60, Prairie View A&M 58
Southern 72, Alabama A&M 65
Jackson State 63, Grambling State 60
Texas Southern 84, Arkansas Pine Bluff 65
Alabama State 78, Alcorn State 63
MEAC
Savannah State 76, Florida A&M 57
North Carolina Central 71, North Carolina A&T 66
Morgan State 81, Liberty 69
Howard 70, Coppin State 66
Bethune-Cookman 70, South Carolina State 59
Gardner-Webb 57, Delaware State 56
Delaware 68, Hampton 64
NAIA
Florida Memorial 77, Embry-Riddle (FL) 74
Morris SC 96, Coastal Georgia 68
Huston-Tillotson TX 72, Bacone OK 65
Texas Wesleyan 79, Texas College 71
William Woods MO 75, Harris-Stowe State MO 71
Jarvis Christian 83, Paul Quinn 76 (Forfeit)
Langston OK 79, Southwest NM 69
Wiley TX 61, St. Thomas TX 57
Wilberforce OH 73, Roberts Wesleyan NY 63
Milligan TN 84, Point University GA 79
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
CIAA
Johnson C. Smith 78, Winston Salem State 63
Shaw 80, Fayetteville State 70
Bowie State 60, Virginia State 56v (OT)
Virginia Union 85, Lincoln Pa. 76
Saint Augustine's 75, Livingstone 74
SIAC
Miles 89, LeMoyne-Owens
Albany State, Claflin
Benedict 60, Paine 54
Stillman 87, Lane 75
Fort Valley State 73, Clark-Atlanta 53
Tuskegee 59, Kentucky State 52
GCAC
Xavier 60, Edward Waters 53
Talladega 84, Philander Smith 60
Dillard 83, Fisk 61
SWAC
Arkansas Pine Bluff 69, Texas Southern 52
Mississippi Valley State 63, Prairie View A&M 56
Alabama A&M 67, Southern 62
Alabama State 62, Alcorn State 57
Grambling State 64, Jackson State 56
OVC
Tennessee State 61, Jacksonville State 59
MEAC
Florida A&M 58, Savannah State 45
Hampton 47, Maryland Eastern Shore 29
Howard 50, Coppin State 49
North Carolina A&T 66, North Carolina Central 45
Bethune-Cookman 69, South Carolina State 65
Norfolk State 78, Delaware State 73 (OT)
NAIA
Harris-Stowe State MO 50, William Woods MO 46
Lee TN 78, Voorhees SC 51
Jarvis Christian 2, Paul Quinn 0 (Forfeit)
Wiley TX 81, St. Thomas TX 35
Langston OK 115, Southwest NM 80
Coastal Georgia 67, Morris SC 63
Huston-Tillotson TX 67, Bacone OK 65
Texas Wesleyan 60, Texas College 57
Roberts Wesleyan NY 65, Wilberforce OH 47
Southeastern FL 64, Florida Memorial 57 (OT)
Milligan TN 77, Point University GA 47
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Senior guard Jasmine Grant scored 15 points Saturday to lead NAIA No. 21 Xavier University of Louisiana to a 60-53 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball victory against Edward Waters.
The Gold Nuggets (20-8 overall, 10-2 GCAC) reached 20 victories for the 11th consecutive season, which extends a school record. Bo Browder tied the Louisiana collegiate record for consecutive 20-win seasons by a women's basketball coach with 11. Leon Barmore established the record at Louisiana Tech from 1991-2002.
Browder is in his 13th season as Xavier's head coach and has reached 20 victories 12 times. He is 318-110 with the Gold Nuggets. This is the 19th time in 20 seasons that the XU women won 20 or more games.
Grant, the Nuggets' only double-figure scorer, also had seven assists to tie her career best for the second straight game.
Edward Waters held a pair of one-point leads in the first 10 minutes, but Grant passed to freshman Jessica Savannah for a pair of baskets, and Carmen Holcombe made two free throws in a 6-0 run which put the Nuggets ahead to stay, 17-12, at 8:24. Xavier led 30-24 at halftime and extended its lead to 51-40 with 5:43 remaining.
Holcombe and SiMon Franklin scored nine points apiece for the Nuggets.
Tiffany Tolbert scored 16 points for Edward Waters (8-22, 4-10). Ebony Presha scored 14 points, and Jessica Georges had her sixth double-double of the season, 11 points and 13 rebounds.
The Gold Nuggets won back-to-back games for the first time in nearly a month. They completed a two-game regular-season sweep of Edward Waters and improved to 6-0 all-time against the Lady Tigers.
Xavier will stay on the road and play GCAC opponent Fisk at 5:30 p.m. Monday in Nashville, Tenn.
JACKSON, Mississippi - The Jackson State baseball team opened the season with two big wins over Florida A&M and Eastern Illinois Friday night at Robert "Bob" Braddy Field on the opening day of the JSU Tournament. JSU ended the day with a 2-0 record.
In JSU's season opener, the Tigers beat the FAMU Rattlers 15-6. JSU recorded 13 hits and 12 RBI in the win. The Rattlers scored its six runs on 10 hits. Quintavious Drains picked up the win. In six innings of work he recorded nine strikeouts. Heath Blackburn suffered the loss for FAMU.
Charles Epperson and Ethan Bright led JSU's offensive efforts. Epperson went 4-4 at the plate with two runs and two RBI. Epperson also recorded the first home run of the season for the Tigers. Bright went 3-5 at the plate with a run scored and three RBI.
In JSU's second game of the season, the Tigers improved to 2-0 by beating Eastern Illinois 2-1. The game was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday, Feb. 18, but was rescheduled to 9:30 pm Friday night due to pending inclement weather on Saturday. The game was a defensive battle as JSU gave up five hits and Eastern Illinois allowed six runs.
JSU scored the first run of the game when Epperson scored on a Frank Solis single. EIU scored its only run of the game in the fourth inning. The Tigers scored the final run of the game when Gabriel Babineaux scored on an error.
Day two of the JSU Tournament should see a 90-plus percent chance of rain on Saturday, Feb. 18
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama | The Stillman College Tigers didn’t look past the last-place Lane Dragons, defeating them soundly 98-79 and extended their winning streak to three in a row. “At this point, anybody can beat anybody and we can’t overlook anyone,” Stillman coach Michael Grant said. “They beat us earlier this year at Lane.”
The Tigers (14-10, 12-10 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) were led by Damian Ford’s 25 points and 12 rebounds. Ladarius Rhone also had a double-double with 11 points and 15 boards. Jeffery Wherry scored 18, including 5-for-7 shooting from 3-point range, and Torrean Walker added 16 off the bench.
The Tigers started hot, especially from long range. Fifteen of Stillman’s first 18 points came from 3-point range, and seven minutes into the game, Stillman led by 20. The big lead did not last for long, as the Dragons answered right back with 12 unanswered points to cut the lead back to single digits. The Tigers let Lane get as close as five before pushing their lead to 13 going into halftime.
Nashville, Tenn. --- In a fiercely contested battle that wasn't decided until the final minute, the Tennessee State University women's basketball team held-off a feisty Jacksonville State team and came away with a, 61-59, win Saturday night in the Gentry Center.
With the victory, Tennessee State (9-18, 5-10 OVC) snapped a five-game skid while Jacksonville State (4-23, 1-13 OVC) dropped its eighth straight.
Chelsea Hudson led TSU and recorded a double-double with 17 points and 18 rebounds while Jasmin Shuler added 14. Alana Morris finished the game with 10 points and six assists for the Lady Tigers.
JSU had two players to register double-doubles as Brianna Morrow tallied 19 points with 10 rebounds followed by Danielle Vaughn's 10 points and 12 boards.
The score was tied when Jacksonville State used six unanswered points to take a 12-6 lead. TSU used a timeout to slow the visitors down and cut the deficit down to two behind buckets from Chelsea Hudson and Donyeah Mayfield out of the break.
After falling behind by four points, TSU fought back to knot the score at 16-all.
The score remained close over the next several possessions. Chelsea Hudson found Donyeah Mayfield under the basket to give the Lady Tigers a, 25-21, lead but the Gamecocks answered right back to close within two.
TSU went into the halftime break leading JSU, 26-23.
In the second frame, JSU used two quick buckets to erase the deficit and capture a, 27-26, lead over TSU. The Lady Tigers regained the advantage when Jasmin Shuler knocked down a triple from the corner for TSU's first points of the half.
The teams traded buckets, until TSU created a little distance behind a small spurt that put the Lady Tigers on top, 37-32. The Gamecocks, however, would not go away and captured the lead following, a 6-0 run of their own.
With 11:16 left in the game, the score was at a, 39-39, deadlock. The Gamecocks hit a free-throw before Destiny Lane nailed a short jumper to put JSU up by three.
The Lady Tigers trailed until back-to-back lay-ups from Alana Morris made the score, 45-44, in favor of the home team. The Gamecocks answered on their trip down the floor and moved ahead, 46-45, with about eight minutes left to play.
The rest of the game was a see-saw battle full of high intensity from both teams.
After playing to another tie, 48-48, with about five minutes left, the score wavered back-and-forth over the next three minutes.
With 2:40 on the clock, Alana Morris connected with Chelsea Hudson to give TSU a slight, 57-55, advantage. TSU moved ahead, 58-55, when Rachel Allen made the first of two free-throw attempts but JSU pulled within one on a drive by Candace Morton.
On TSU's next trip down the floor, Rachel Allen scored to make TSU's lead, 60-57, with 36.1 seconds left in the game. The ensuing possession saw JSU miss its shot attempt and Chelsea Hudson came away with the rebound.
The Gamecocks were forced to foul Hudson and she knocked down one-of-two freebies to give TSU a, 61-57, lead. Following another JSU missed shot, Hudson was fouled again and missed the front end of a one-and-one. Jacksonville State's final shot made the score, 61-59, but it came with only two seconds remaining.
TSU inbounded the ball and the time expired.
Neither team shot particularly well as Tennessee State went 22-of-60 from the field (36.7 percent) and 3-of-19 (15.8 percent) from three-point range. TSU only made 14-of-24 (58.3 percent) from the free-throw line.
Jacksonville State shot 37.7 percent (23-of-61) from the field, including a dismal 10.0 percent (1-10) from long range. JSU went 12-of-18 (66.7 percent) from the free-throw line.
The Lady Tigers will conclude the regular season with a home contest against Murray State on Thursday, Feb. 23. Game time is slated for a 4 p.m. start in the Gentry Center.
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