Tennessee State Tigers Football Season Tickets On Sale July 8

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2013 Season Ticket Information2013 Tennessee State University Football season tickets will go on sale July 8. The Tigers open the season with Bethune-Cookman in the 15^th Annual John Merritt Classic on Sept. 1.  Later on in the season, the Tigers will return to Hale Stadium to face Austin Peay.

 
Season tickets are $85.00 and season parking passes are $40.00. The season parking package will include all four contests at LP Field.  The Hale Stadium game against Austin Peay on November 9 will be $5.00 cash the day of the game.

Season Ticket Price - $85
Faculty/Staff Price - $75
Kids 12 and under - $75 (Parents Must specify at time of purchase, no refunds will be given after purchase)

2013 Football Single Game Tickets
Single game tickets for all five games will go on sale July 22, 2013. All tickets will increase by $5 on gameday.

Single Game Tickets at LP Field – Range from $15 - $35
Single Game Ticket at Hale Stadium - $15

** Tickets increase by $5 on gameday**

Single Game Tickets go on sale July 22, 2013


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For 3rd consecutive year, XU wins GCAC all-sports trophy

NEW ORLEANS — For the third consecutive year, Xavier University of Louisiana is the winner of the Thomas Howell Cup, the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference's all-sports award. XU scored its largest-ever winning margin, 14 points, and its most points, 46½, since 2003-04.
    
The Thomas Howell Cup, named for the GCAC's longtime commissioner, is awarded annually to the school with the most points based on order of finish in various sports.

Xavier was boosted by GCAC championships in men's cross country, women's cross country, women's volleyball, women's basketball, men's basketball and women's outdoor track and field. Edward Waters was second with 32½ points, and SUNO was third with 31½.
    
It's the third time that Xavier has won the award. The athletics department finished in the top three each of the past nine seasons.

Xavier is the second school in GCAC history to win the all-sports award at least three consecutive times. Former member Mobile did it 12 consecutive years (1987-99), then won five straight in six years (2003-09; no Howell Cup awarded in 2005-06).      Xavier won the Howell Cup by 11½ points over runner-up SUNO in 2011-12 and by eight points over Edward Waters in 2010-11.      Xavier has won 46 conference/group team championships and earned 34 berths in NAIA national championships during the past seven seasons. Xavier suspended intercollegiate athletics in 2005-06 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In seven seasons since then, the Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets have combined for 41 conference/group team championships and 31 berths in NAIA national championships. Thomas Howell Cup 2012-13 standings No. School Points 1. Xavier 46½ 2. Edward Waters 32½ 3. SUNO 31½ 4. Talladega 24 5. Tougaloo 23½ 6. Dillard 23 7. Philander Smith 16½ 8. Fisk 9½

By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA

Didavi, Montrel, Howell, Flowers are ITA All-Americans

Loic Didavi

Kourtney Howell

NEW ORLEANS — Four from Xavier University of Louisiana — Loic Didavi, Kyle Montrel, Kourtney Howell and Brion Flowers — have been named Intercollegiate Tennis Association NAIA All-Americans for the 2012-13 season.

The four earned the honor by being top 20 in singles or top 10 in doubles in the ITA's postseason individual rankings. Didavi, a senior from Cotonou, Benin, and a graduate of Lycée Jean Dautet, La Rochelle, was ranked fourth in singles and fifth in doubles with Montrel, a freshman from Atlanta, Ga., and a graduate of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy. Those are the highest-ever final NAIA individual rankings of the Gold Rush.

Kyle Montrel

Brion Flowers

The Gold Nuggets also achieved their highest-ever end-of-season singles and doubles rankings. Howell, a junior from Cypress, Texas, and a graduate of Cypress Woods High School, ranked sixth in singles and was third in doubles with Flowers, a freshman from Lafayette, La., and a graduate of St. Thomas More High School.
    
Didavi and Howell are repeat All-America selections. Didavi made the team for the third consecutive year; he also attained that honor as a sophomore at Auburn Montgomery before transferring to Xavier. Howell is the Gold Nuggets' first two-time ITA NAIA All-American. Montrel and Flowers are Xavier's first freshmen to be named All-America in this sport.
    
Also ranked nationally in the postseason were XU's Nikita Soifer at 21st and Montrel at 36th in men's singles, and the men's doubles team of Soifer and Viktor Svoboda at No. 19. In women's singles, Flowers finished 28th, and Amanda Materre was 42nd. Howell was 15th and Materre 36th in the final singles rankings a year ago.

In the NAIA South Region men's rankings, Didavi was fifth, Soifer 12th and Montrel 16th in singles. Didavi and Montrel were fourth, and Soifer and Svoboda were eighth in doubles. In the women's South Region, Howell was sixth and Flowers 15th in singles, and Howell and Flowers were third in doubles.

Soifer is a sophomore from Beer Sheva, Israel, and a graduate of Hof Hasharon School. Svoboda is a junior from Kamenice, Czech Republic, and a graduate of Vitezna Plan. Materre is a sophomore from Richmond, Texas, and a graduate of Westside High School.

This is the second consecutive year that the XU men have three in the final singles top 50 and two teams in final doubles top 20.

Xavier is one of three NAIA men's programs — the others are Vanguard and Westmont — with at least three singles players and two doubles teams in the final rankings both of the last two seasons.
    
Both XU teams had their best seasons ever. The Gold Nuggets finished 19-8 and were the first XU team in any sport to reach No. 1 in an NAIA coaches poll or reach the semifinals of an NAIA National Championship. They ranked third in the postseason. The XU men (15-8) and reached their highest-ever NAIA ranking, fifth, on three occasions, including the postseason poll. The Gold Rush became the first XU program to reach the national quarterfinals in consecutive years.

By Ed Cassiere, SID
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA

FAMU drum major sentenced

ORLANDO, Florida  --  Former FAMU drum major Rikki Wills apologized to Robert Champion's parents today for his role in the fatal hazing of their son and then received five years probation.

Wills, who was Champion's roommate at Florida A&M University, also was ordered to serve a year of community control, a sanction similar to house arrest.

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He and Shawn Turner, who will be sentenced later today, were two of the six student leaders of FAMU's Marching 100 in November 2011. They insist they were trying to shield fellow drum major Champion from the blows that killed him during the ritual aboard a charter bus parked at the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando.

Turner is not expected to draw a prison sentence either, assistant state attorney Nicole Pegues said.

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FAMU Drum Major Sentenced to House Arrest in Hazing Death
 
ORLANDO, Florida --    One of the former Florida A&M University drum majors charged in the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion was sentenced today to house arrest and probation for his role in his bandmate's death.
 
Rikki Wills, 25, was one of the five drum majors who led Champion's funeral march, escorting his casket during the funeral.
 
Champion, 26, was a member of the college's famed "Marching 100" band when he collapsed and died Nov. 19, 2011 on a bus parked outside an Orlando, Fla., hotel after a football game.
 
The death was ruled a homicide and Champion's torso was covered with bruises that were inflicted during a brutal hazing ritual that contributed to his death, according to investigators.
 
Wills was sentenced to one year of "community control"--a formal name for house arrest--and five years of state probation.
 
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Savannah State to name football coach Friday

SAVANNAH, Georgia  --  Savannah State University has scheduled a press conference Friday afternoon to introduce its new head football coach.

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference program has been without a head coach since Steve Davenport was fired on April 17 after back-to-back 1-10 seasons.

The four finalists who interviewed for the position are John Hendrick, the special teams coordinator/defensive ends coach at Alabama State; Earnest Wilson II, the offensive coordinator/quarterback coach at Hampton; Ester Junior, the head coach at Central State; and Robert Joseph, who recently joined the staff at Alcorn State as wide receiver coach after serving as Langston's head coach the last two seasons.

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SSU pitcher McGowin a semifinalist for National Pitcher of the Year

KYLE MCGOWIN
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SAVANNAH, Georgia  --  The College Baseball Hall of Fame has announced that Savannah State junior Kyle McGowin is one of 10 semifinalists for the National Pitcher of the Year Award.

The winner of the Pitcher of the Year Award will be announced June 29 in Lubbock, Texas, as part of the annual College Baseball Night of Champions.

The right-handed pitcher finished the 2013 campaign with a 12-2 record, 2.02 earned-run average and a school single-season record of 135 strikeouts. The Sag Harbor, N.Y., native pitched 120 1/3 innings.

McGowin won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year award, made the MEAC all-tournament team and also was a finalist for the 2013 Golden Spikes Award.

In other award news, SSU outfielder Mendez Elder has been named to the Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American team, selected by the Collegiate Baseball magazine.

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Charlotte tourism chief wants CIAA hoops extension

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina  --  Charlotte tourism leaders have asked the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association for an exclusive 30-day negotiating period to keep the conference’s basketball tournament at Time Warner Cable Arena. The request was disclosed in a letter sent Friday to city and tourism leaders by a Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority executive.

Tom Murray, the CEO of the visitors authority, asked the conference’s board to grant Charlotte the right to propose new contract terms as part of a visit to the CIAA board meeting on May 22. Mike Butts, executive director of Visit Charlotte, the recruiting arm of the visitors authority, described Murray’s pitch as one that would allow “the CRVA, Charlotte Bobcats and the hospitality community to address the concerns that the chancellors and staff have shared as needing attention in order to continue their relationship with Charlotte.”

Time Warner Cable Arena has hosted the CIAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments for the past eight years. The current agreement ends after the 2014 tournament. Visitors authority studies in past years estimated the tournament pumped $50 million into the local economy. Last month, Murray disclosed some preliminary results from analysis of the 2013 tournament, including a decline of 13.5 percent in ticket sales.

Butts, in the letter sent last week recapping the pitch by Murray, said ...

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