CAPE COD, Mass. – The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) has announced its 2010 Football Bowl Championships. This year fourteen teams, including Franklin & Marshall, will be competing in seven bowls on Saturday, November 20. Each bowl will be hosted by an ECAC member institution. Continue reading
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For the second time in three years and the fifth time since 2002, the Johns Hopkins football team will play in an ECAC Bowl game as the Blue Jays will host Lebanon Valley for the ECAC South Atlantic title. Click below for the full story:
http://www.hopkinssports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111510aaa.html
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The UWW Warhawks are undefeated, are the defending D3 Champions and were the wire-to-wire #1 team in D3 in the polls but got relegated to a Number 2 seed in the playoff bracket today. The Mt Union Purple Raiders, St Thomas Tommies, the North Central Cardinals and the Wesley Wolverines were the 4 Number 1 seeds. And another thing for 1A fans who think playoffs bring an end to all post-season controversies, the Washington and Lee Generals beat the Hampden-Sydney Tigers head to head on November 6th and are the conference champs of the league they and Hampden-Sydney play in (while H-S got an at-large berth) but are a 6 seed to the Tigers’ 4 seed in the same region. All that aside, the nation is waiting to see, once the dust settles, if it will be a 6th consecutive title game matchup between the Warhawks and the Purple Raiders. The Wesley Wolverines have been handed a perfect opportunity to at last break out of the shadow of those powerhouses. Will they make the most of it? Here are the First Round matchups for next Saturday. Continue reading
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Coach Mel Tjeerdsma (pronounced CHURCH-ma) and his Northwest Missouri Bearcats, who are the defending D2 champs and who have played in the last 5 D2 Championship Games in a row, are the 3rd seed in their region. Let’s take a look at the opening round matchups. For a Continue reading
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Nothing against the Cumberlands Patriots but the 11th-ranked William Penn Statesmen got royally screwed today, getting left out of the 16-team playoff field that was announced just minutes ago on the NAIA Selection Show on the Victory Sports Network. Putting that grumbling aside (for now) let’s look at next Saturday’s opening round matchups:
The #1 SIOUX FALLS COUGARS will host the NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE RANGERS
The #2 CC FIGHTING SAINTS will host the Continue reading
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Valedictory Speech – The Top Ranked University of Sioux Falls Cougars closed the curtain on their Great Plains Athletic Conference Era by capping off their fifth straight undefeated season. The Concordia (NE) Bulldogs were the latest notch on the belt of the Cougars in a 44-7 victory. Now it’s on to the playoffs (and by the way the NAIA Football Playoff Selection Show will announce the Continue reading
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On Saturday November 6th at James H. Taylor, II Stadium in Williamsburg, KY the University of the Cumberlands football team hosted Mid-South Conference (MSC) Western Division foe Faulkner University. The Patriots came out of the locker room looking like a team on a mission and with something to prove as they easily defeated the Eagles 79-7 to remain in contention for a NAIA playoff berth. The win also gives the Patriots an opportunity to be the MSC Western Division Champions with a win on Saturday against Cumberland University.
With such a dominating performance on the field the Patriots were able to enter the history books as a team and many players were able to break or tie nine Cumberlands football records. Continue reading
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Final scores are in for today’s semifinals in Region VI:
(7) HUTCHINSON BLUE DRAGONS over the Independence Pirates 24-17
(1) BUTLER (KS) GRIZZLIES over the Coffeyville Red Ravens 31-5
The finals will be a rematch of the regular season matchup between the Grizzlies and the Blue Dragons. Two weeks ago Butler handed Hutchinson their only loss of the year so far. Next Sunday the Blue Dragons try to avenge that loss on the Grizzlies’ home field.
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The unique way the DAC has of ending the regular season has been unfolding today at the Fargodome in Fargo, ND. (I would have thought the Fargodome was in Miami, FL, but that just shows what I know) We have final scores for the early games:
JAMESTOWN COLLEGE JIMMIES over the Continue reading
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100 Wins For Coach Fem – #3 Saint Xavier Cougars Head Coach Mike Feminis notched his 100th win yesterday as his boys closed out the regular season with a 30-6 win over the 7th-ranked Continue reading
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