Tallahassee, Florida -- In the whirlwind of events that have unfolded in the past week and a half, it's almost easy to forget that a student died.
There have been protests, Facebook groups and countless other visible outbursts from students, alumni and other supporters to have the Marching "100" reinstated and former Director of Bands Julian White re-hired after the death of student and drum major Robert Champion. But where are the student-led anti-hazing protests and Facebook groups?
Where's the outrage and frustration that a fellow Rattler has been killed and members of one of the university's largest organizations are under investigation for causing it?
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This is a difficult time for Rattlers everywhere as we mourn the loss of one of our own, Drum Major Robert Champion. As he is being laid to rest today, let us all become one - a drum major for positive change! As a former Marching 100 member and a FAMU graduate, I have found tremendous peace in God's amazing grace. Please take a listen ...Hubba, Hubba, Robert. (beepbeep)
The wonderful Soweto Gospel Choir singing Amazing Grace.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Loyola controls second half and beats Gold Rush 66-59
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| The 2011-12 Xavier University of Louisiana men's basketball team. (Click here for Roster and Schedule) Head Coach: Dannton Jackson (ninth season) Assistant Coach: Alfred Williams (click photo to enlarge) |
Corey Gray scored 13 points for the Wolfpack (6-2), and Cameron Cates and Steve Davis scored 10 apiece.
Nick Haywood scored 14 points and Wanto Joseph 10 for Xavier (4-2), which has lost two straight.
An 8-0 Loyola run in the final 4½ minutes of the first half tied the score at 20. The Wolfpack led for all but 38 seconds of the second half and took the lead for good at 42-40 on Kyle Simmons' two free throws with 8:41 remaining.
Xavier outshot Loyola 44.2 to 36.7 percent from the floor, but the Wolfpack had the advantage at the line, making 28-of-37 free throws to the Gold Rush's 16-of-27. Loyola made 22-of-30 from the line in the second half, Xavier missed seven free throws in the final eight minutes. Loyola made 9-of-10 free throws in the final 1:46.
Haywood, the reigning Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week, made three 3-pointers to give him 10 in the past two games.
Lovaglio, the first Loyola player in five seasons to record a double-double against Xavier, grabbed nine first-half rebounds and helped the Wolfpack finish with a 36-28 advantage.
The loss was the second in Xavier's past 25 home games and 41 non-conference home games. Loyola snapped Xavier's 20-game home win streak against non-conference opponents and won for the fifth time in 34 meetings with its city rival.
Xavier will play Concordia (Ala.) at 4 p.m. Saturday at The Barn.
By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
VISIT: XULAATHLETICS
VISIT: GCACSPORTS
This Week
at The Barn
Saturday, December 3 — Women's Basketball vs. Shorter, 2 p.m. live webcast • live stats Hall's hot second half helps Xavier beat William Carey
NEW ORLEANS -- Senior center Keldra Hall scored 15 of her 17 points in the second half Tuesday to lead NAIA No. 16 Xavier University of Louisiana to a 55-38 women's basketball victory against William Carey.The Gold Nuggets (6-3) won their second in a row and snapped the four-game win streak of the Lady Crusaders (4-4).
Hall scored all her second-half points in the final 14 minutes, including consecutive 3-point plays which gave Xavier a 47-27 lead with 4:20 remaining. For the game Hall was 7-of-8 from the floor and 3-of-3 from the line in 15 minutes. Xavier is 5-0 this season when Hall scores in double figures.
Haleigh Arcement scored 14 points, 10 in the second half, for William Carey. The Lady Crusaders were 1-of-16 on 3-pointers after shooting 39 percent from long range in their previous five games.
The Gold Nuggets outshot the Lady Crusaders 37 to 24.4 percent from the floor and outrebounded them 39-29. Xavier shot a season-best 92.3 percent from the line, making 12-of-13, and beat William Carey for the 19th consecutive time at The Barn. Xavier leads the series 48-19. The teams will meet again on January 30 at William Carey.
Xavier's next game will start at 2 p.m. Saturday at The Barn against NAIA No. 21 Shorter.
By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
VISIT: XULAATHLETICS
VISIT: GCACSPORTS
This Week
at The Barn
Saturday, December 3 — Women's Basketball vs. Shorter, 2 p.m. live webcast • live stats Xavier's Nick Haywood selected GCAC Player of the Week
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| Nick Haywood |
Haywood, a 6-foot junior guard from Monroe, La., and a graduate of Ouachita High School, scored 26 points and made seven 3-pointers Saturday in Xavier's 78-67 loss at Wiley. The points were the most by a Gold Rush player since Michael Harvey scored 27 at home against Tougaloo on Feb. 8, 2010, and the 3-pointers were the most since Mark Stewart made a school-record-tying eight at Mobile on March 7, 2008.
Haywood, who did not start against Wiley, played 29 minutes and was 7-of-17 from the floor and 7-of-13 on 3-pointers. He made all five of his free throws.
This is Haywood's first year at Xavier after playing at NCAA Division I Houston the past two seasons. Through five games he ranks third on the Gold Rush with 9.4 points per game and leads the team with nine made 3-pointers. He averages 17.5 minutes.
The Gold Rush have earned two GCAC player awards this season. Junior forward Denzell Erves received the other for Oct. 31-Nov. 6.
Xavier, 4-1 and ranked 21st in NAIA Division I, will play twice at home this week — against city rival Loyola at 7:30 tonight and against Concordia (Ala.) at 4 p.m. Saturday.
By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
VISIT: XULAATHLETICS
VISIT: GCACSPORTS
This Week
at The Barn
Saturday, December 3 — Women's Basketball vs. Shorter, 2 p.m. live webcast • live stats Southern Mississippi Falls to Florida A&M Lady Rattlers, 77-66
Hattiesburg, Mississippi - Florida A&M women's basketball team got 25-second chance points off 23 offensive rebounds as the Lady Rattlers defeated Southern Miss 77-66 Tuesday night. Southern Miss (2-4) placed three players in double figure scoring led by Tanecka Carey with 16 points followed Jamierra Faulkner with 15 points to go with 10 assists and Sedreka Plummer added 10 points.
Qiana Donald led all scorers with a game-high 20 points for Florida A&M (2-4) followed by Antonia Bennett and Tameka McKelton with 15 points apiece and Keturah Martin added 13.
FAMU out-rebounded the Lady Eagles 51-39 with Donald pulling down a game-high 17 boards that included 10 offensive rebounds. Southern Miss managed to score 40 points in the paint and get 21 points off 25 FAMU turnovers. The Lady Eagles struggled from the free throw line, converting only 4-of-10 shots.
Southern Miss trailed by as many as 27 points, 56-29, early in the second half as FAMU ...
'Mayor' Hickman a large figure for Winston Salem Rams
WINSTON SALEM, North Carolina - By the kickoff Saturday, the race cars and the oak leaves were long gone, leaving Bowman Gray Stadium awash in red. Red T-shirts. Red sweatshirts. Red uniforms with black shoulders. Red caps. Even red shoes.
The Winston-Salem State Rams wear red when they’re wearing out CIAA rivals, and they wore red while beating California University of Pennsylvania 35-28 in the school’s first NCAA home playoff game since 1991. At least 7,000 of the 7,645 witnesses had some red threads showing somewhere on the breezy November afternoon, a scene that begged for a windy politician.
The Rams, rallying the football base, bypassed the certified office holders and nominated Ced Hickman, the senior running back they laughingly (and perhaps lovingly) call “The Mayor of Winston-Salem.” Hickman has no verifiable ties to the elected mayor, Allen Joines, but he grew up in Winston-Salem and played for North Forsyth High.
Podcast of WSSU Rams vs. California U (Pa.) Vulcans Division II Playoff
NEXT GAME: WSSU RAMS vs. NEW HAVEN CHARGERS, Saturday, December 3rd at 12:00 PM in Bowman Gray Stadium in the NCAA Super Region One Final, WINSTON SALEM, N.C.
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The Winston-Salem State Rams wear red when they’re wearing out CIAA rivals, and they wore red while beating California University of Pennsylvania 35-28 in the school’s first NCAA home playoff game since 1991. At least 7,000 of the 7,645 witnesses had some red threads showing somewhere on the breezy November afternoon, a scene that begged for a windy politician.
The Rams, rallying the football base, bypassed the certified office holders and nominated Ced Hickman, the senior running back they laughingly (and perhaps lovingly) call “The Mayor of Winston-Salem.” Hickman has no verifiable ties to the elected mayor, Allen Joines, but he grew up in Winston-Salem and played for North Forsyth High.
Podcast of WSSU Rams vs. California U (Pa.) Vulcans Division II Playoff
Watch live streaming video from wssu at livestream.com
NEXT GAME: WSSU RAMS vs. NEW HAVEN CHARGERS, Saturday, December 3rd at 12:00 PM in Bowman Gray Stadium in the NCAA Super Region One Final, WINSTON SALEM, N.C.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Turnout for Bayou Classic smallest in history
NEW ORLEANS — This year’s meeting between Grambling and Southern was hardly the most exciting in the 38-year history of the Bayou Classic.
Maybe the fans knew something beforehand. Only 40,175 of them filed into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to watch Grambling pound Southern in the second half for a 36-12 win Saturday.
It was the smallest crowd in Bayou Classic history, and a far cry from 2000-04, when the average attendance was 70,198. The previous low was set last season, when 43,494 people came to the Superdome to watch the Jaguars lose 38-17 and finish with a 2-9 record, the worst in school history.
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Maybe the fans knew something beforehand. Only 40,175 of them filed into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to watch Grambling pound Southern in the second half for a 36-12 win Saturday.
It was the smallest crowd in Bayou Classic history, and a far cry from 2000-04, when the average attendance was 70,198. The previous low was set last season, when 43,494 people came to the Superdome to watch the Jaguars lose 38-17 and finish with a 2-9 record, the worst in school history.
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