WILLISTON STATE TETONS
Location: Williston, ND
Site: http://www.wsctetons.com/
Comment: The Tetons were the largest and westernmost of the Sioux and were often called the Teton Dakota or Teton Sioux. There is also the Teton Range of mountains out west. Williston State’s hockey team made it to Continue reading
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BROOKDALE COLLEGE JERSEY BLUES
Location: Lincroft, NJ
Conference: Garden State Athletic Conference
Comment: Naturally a Colonial History geek like me couldn’t resist a team named after a New Jersey unit from Continue reading
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Basketball season is over in the divisions covered by Balladeer’s Blog, so it’s on to baseball! Seamheads have been emailing me about how anxious they are to start my coverage since the season’s over a month old for collegiate play.
As always I’ll cover baseball for colleges in the NAIA, D3, D2, USCAA, NCCAA, ACCA and NJCAA all the way up through the World Series in each division.
For starters here’s a look at the Top 25 in the NAIA: 1. Lee Flames (up from 3) *** 2. LSU-Shreveport Pilots (as in riverboat pilots) *** 3. Oklahoma City University Stars *** 4. Embry- Riddle Aeronaut Continue reading
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A nice January day like today seems like a good time for Balladeer’s Blog to take a look at the college hockey rankings for the NJCAA and for NCAA Division 3. D3’s defending champs, the St Norbert College Green Knights (logo at left) come in at number 5 this week, up 3 spots from last week’s poll.
NJCAA Top 5 – 1. Monroe Tribunes… 2. Erie College Paws … 3. Williston State College Tetons … 4. Broome Hornets … 5. Morris Titans
NCAA D3- 1. Norwich Cadets … 2. Oswego State Lakers … 3. Continue reading
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Tonight there are not as many games in the divisions Balladeer’s Blog covers as there were last Thursday, but there’s still quite a sampling. The NAIA has the night off and D3 has just one game going, but the NJCAA and D2 pick up the slack, especially the former. Two of D2’s games are being televised nationwide however, so we’ll start with those:
CENTRAL WASHINGTON WILDCATS at the HUMBOLDT STATE LUMBERJACKS – Airing on the cable channel called CBS College Sports at 8PM ET
NEWBERRY WOLVES at the VALDOSTA STATE BLAZERS – Airing on Cox SportsNet at 7PM ET
D3’s sole game tonight features the MARYVILLE FIGHTING SCOTS at the Continue reading
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The Hutchinson Blue Dragons football team, fresh off last year’s 10-2 campaign and their second consecutive Salt City Bowl victory, are ranked number 6 in the NJCAA preseason football poll. Navarro College, the defending national champions (and not just in football – the Bulldogs won the NJCAA Division 1 World Series in June) have the top ranking. The Butler (KS) Grizzlies, Navarro’s opponent in Continue reading
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Get ready for some more early Christmas presents in the form of college football playoff games and bowl games.
NAIA Playoffs – Semifinals
The featured game of the day will be the Victory Sports Network presentation of the NAIA semifinal game with the Sioux Falls Cougars hosting the MNU Pioneers. USF is continuing its quest to threepeat as Continue reading
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