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REIVERS RUN, THROUGH EVE AND ADAM (WITH APOLOGIES TO JAMES JOYCE)

Women’s Basketball –   The Lady Reiver’s now 14-1 moved into the NJCAA Poll ranked #23 in the nation.  The Reiver’s topped Three Rivers (MO) last week 68-52.  The game for Saturday night was cancelled by the visiting team due to weather.  The ladies play at home on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. vs. Concordia College and play on the road on Saturday Continue reading

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GULF COAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ADDING TALLADEGA AND PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE

NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference announced Friday the addition of two new members — Philander Smith College of Little Rock, Ark., and Talladega College of Talladega, Ala. — for the 2011-12 academic year. Continue reading

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USAO DROVERS COACH JIMMY HAMPTON IS THE COACH OF THE YEAR AGAIN!

CHICKASHA – Drover Head Coach Jimmy Hampton was named the National Soccer Coaches Association and NAIA Southwest Region Coach of the Year for the second year in a row.

Hampton and the other regional coaches of the year will be honored at a College Continue reading

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RECAP OF THE 2010 NAIA SOCCER TOURNAMENT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 2010 National Championship trophy was awarded to Hastings (Neb.) after a 5-3 victory over Notre Dame (Ohio) on Dec. 4 in Orange Beach, Ala., from the Orange Beach Sportsplex. The Broncos out-scored their five Continue reading

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HASTINGS BRONCOS MEN, LEE FLAMES WOMEN,WIN IT ALL ON THE SOCCER FIELD

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – (box score) No. 3-seed Hastings (Neb.) continued its offensive fireworks, this time plowing past No. 4 Notre Dame (Ohio), 5-3 to win its first-ever NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship. Continue reading

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QUICK TAKE: PAYING COLLEGE ATHLETES

Every time I hear the various talking heads on various sports shows discuss how they think college football and basketball players should be payed by the institutions they attend I can’t help but wonder how uninformed those talking heads are. Have any of them ever heard of Title IX? Institutions won’t be able to just pay players in the revenue sports like football and basketball. Anything the football and basketball players get paid the same amount will need to be paid to the student-athletes on the (insert your own team of least interest here). 

With that many athletes to be paid the dollar amount the schools would be able to pay each of them would be so small it would not at all discourage the players in the big-time sports from accepting under-the-table money and other favors. And even if you could in some fantasy- Continue reading

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ONE WORD: PAVANAPALOOZA!

LEBANON, Tenn.Wilson Central’s Jenna Pavan became the latest addition to the Cumberland University volleyball team, inking with the Bulldogs recently, head coach Dwayne Deering announced.

 The setter and defensive specialist was named All-District her senior year, playing for coach Tammy Serbin at WCHS, where she played two seasons after transferring from Parkersburg High School in Continue reading

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SOCCER ARMAGEDDON IN ORANGE BEACH CONTINUES

Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Sports Information & Media Services, cwaller@naia.org

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – (box score) No. 3-seed Hastings (Neb.) scored four goals in the first-half and dominated Holy Names (Calif.), 5-0 in the Quarterfinals of the NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship final site from the Orange Beach Sportsplex. The shutout was the Broncos sixth-straight and 17th this season in 23 games. Hastings will play in the Semifinals on Friday at 6 p.m. CST against the winner of No. 7 William Jewell (Mo.) and No. 15 Science & Arts (Okla.). Continue reading

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LEAVE IT TO REIVERS

Football –  The # 6 Reiver Football team (9-1) will take on # 13 Snow College (9-2) in Sandy, Utah in the 6th annual Zion’s Bank Top of The Mountains Bowl at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 4th game time is 12 Noon Mountain time and 1:00 p.m. Central time.  The game can be heard on 89.7 The River.     The web-site for the bowl game is http://www.topofthemountainsbowl.com/

Women’s Basketball –    The Lady Reivers dropped their first game of the year on Sunday to Cloud County (KS), the team is now 8-1 overall.  The women will travel to Continue reading

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15TH-RANKED USAO DROVERS MEN’S SOCCER WINS 1ST-EVER 2ND ROUND MATCH

Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog are very familiar with the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Drovers men’s soccer team. Players like goalkeeper “Force Field” McEntee, “NC Hammer”, “Niiiiiikolaaaaa” and “Dr Drover” have made the past few seasons very special for USAO soccer. Coach Hampton’s team has made history again, defeating the Great Falls Argonauts for the Drovers’ 1st ever 2nd round victory. Here’s the latest from the Alabama tournament, courtesy of Chad Waller. Continue reading

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