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SPOT-CHECK: HOW ARE THE PRAIRIE WOLVES DOING?
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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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HUTCHINSON BASKETBALL BACK IN ACTION
By Steve Carpenter
HCC Sports Information Director
TAMPA, Fla. – For the sixth consecutive year, the Hutchinson Community College women’s basketball team will be playing in a holiday classic to Continue reading
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AND THE OSU-MARION SCARLET WAVE COMES IN AT NUMBER ONE!
The votes for my latest Top 20 contest have all been counted and the winner of the designation “Coolest-Named USCAA and NCCAA Sports Team” is the Ohio State-Marion Scarlet Wave! The name certainly is pretty cool and that logo is very eye-catching! If you want to follow Scarlet Wave sports just go here: http://osumarion.osu.edu/ScarletWave/
In second place were the New Hampshire Technical Institute Lynx. Once again it seems impossible to separate a cool name from a cool logo and you can’t help wondering how much carry over votes each one brings the other. To follow the Lynx sports teams click here: http://www.nhti.edu/campuslife/athletics.html
For the first time in Balladeer’s Blog’s history (a whopping 6 months I grant you, but still … ) the voting in a Top 20 List has resulted in a 3-way tie for 3rd place. Here are the 3 schools in alphabetical order:
The Lincoln Christian University Red Lions start us off with their snazzy logo and their memorable nickname. To beard these Lions in their den go here: http://www.lincolnchristian.edu/athletics/
Next we have the Maine-Augusta Moose, in whose honor I’ll throw out a new marketing slogan – “Moose: It’s singular AND plural!” (Well it’s better than my first one – “Moose: It’s what’s for dinner!” ) To follow these teams whose marching band should play the Bullwinkle theme music go here: http://www.uma.edu/athletics.html
We close with the Ozark Christian College Ambassadors and you have got to love the poetic coolness of their name as well as the fairly awesome logo that they sport. Who wouldn’t want to go play for their teams or at least attend the games so you can hear announcers say things like “And the Ambassadors negotiate their way into the lead” or other related phrases? To follow their teams go here: http://occ.edu/students/default.aspx?id=90
Honorable mention goes to the Piedmont Baptist Conquerors, who were just 4 votes behind LCU, UMA and OCC. To view the entire list and see who you think got robbed click here: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/24/the-20-coolest-named-uscaa-and-nccaa-sports-teams/
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SOCCER DRAMA IN ORANGE BEACH, ALABAMA: TODAY’S ACTION AT THE NAIA SOCCER TOURNAMENT
Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Sports Information & Media Services, cwaller@naia.org
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – (box score) In a rematch of the 2008 National Championship final, unseeded Bethel (Tenn.) eliminated No. 1-seed Rio Grande (Ohio), 2-1 today in the first game of the NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship final site from the Orange Beach Sportsplex. Bethel (14-5-1), who defeated Rio Grande by the same score in overtime to win the 2008 title, now advances to play at 7:30 p.m. CST on Wednesday against the winner of Mobile (Ala.) and Belhaven (Miss.). Continue reading
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THE 20 COOLEST-NAMED USCAA AND NCCAA SPORTS TEAMS
Once again it’s time for another Top 20 contest. This time we’ll be looking at the coolest-named sports teams in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Christian College Athletic Association. As usual readers will have the next 20 days to e-mail me with their votes for which team they feel has the coolest name. I can be reached at Thtcom15@aol.com .
20. OHIO STATE-MARION SCARLET WAVE
Location: Marion, OH
Comment: The Scarlet Wave is a nickname every bit as cool as The Crimson Tide and The Green Wave. You can’t go wrong with names like this for sports teams as far as I’m concerned and I’ve been saying for years that when Syracuse changed their team’s names from The Orangemen to The Orange that they’d have been better off going with Continue reading
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TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE
Location: Lakeland, FL
Division: NAIA
Conference Affiliation: The Sun Conference
Major sports: basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf
Site: http://www.seuniversity.edu/athletics/
Comment: Florida teams sport some of the coolest names in the country Continue reading
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EAGER REIVERS
For the first time in school history all 6 of the Fall Sports teams will be competing in the Post-Season Championships!! GO REIVERS!!
Men & Women’s Cross Country
The cross country teams departed today for Spartanburg, SC for the National Cross Country Meet they will race Saturday morning! Good Luck Reivers! Continue reading
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THE ASA AVENGERS ARE THE WINNERS!
The voters have spoken and the ASA Avengers are the winners of The 20 Coolest-Named JUCO/COCO Sports Teams contest! It’s hard to tell which thing people found cooler: the name Avengers or that incredibly cool logo up there. My e-mailers wanted that look on anything from T-shirts to jackets to tattoos, so I have a feeling ASA could subsidize their institution just off of merchandising. I call dibs on their fight song for my ring-tone! To follow their teams and inquire about buying something with that logo on it click here: http://www.asa.edu/default-athletics.asp
In second place were the Hutchinson Blue Dragons, and just like with the Avengers voters were torn about which was more appealing: the name Blue Dragons or the logo. To follow their teams click here: http://cms.hutchcc.edu/hcc/Dragonshome.aspx?menu_id=156&head_id=8554&id=172
In third place were the Iowa Western Reivers, proving the perennial popularity of swashbuckling imagery for sports teams! To follow their teams click here: http://athletics.iwcc.edu/
And to view the entire Top 20 List click here: https://glitternight.com/2010/10/18/the-20-coolest-named-juco-sports-teams/
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TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY MUSKIES
Location: New Concord, OH
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Ohio Athletic Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.muskingum.edu/home/athletics/index.html
Comment: No, their mascot isn’t a crying U.S. Senator standing in falling snow, it’s the Continue reading
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