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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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RAILSPLITTERS’ DESMOND JOHNSON SHARES PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONOR

ROCK HILL, S.C. ­- Lincoln Memorial University‘s Desmond Johnson (Lynch, KY) and Newberry College‘s Tony Davis have been named the South Atlantic Conference men’s basketball Players of the Week for the week ending January 9, 2011.

Johnson, a junior forward and product of Cumberland High School, led the Railsplitters to a perfect 3-0 mark, including a pair of conference road wins over Tusculum College (73-52) and Newberry College Continue reading

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SPOT CHECK: HOW ARE THE WAYLAND BAPTIST FLYING QUEENS DOING?

Let’s take a look at how the Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens hoops team is doing. At the present time the ladies have an overall record of 8-7 including a 96-48 smackdown of Huston-Tillotson. Beginning on the 13th of this month the Flying Queens have three games in seven days, against John Brown University, Rogers State and Oklahoma Christian.

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THE COOLEST HELMETS IN THE MID EMPIRE CONFERENCE

TEAM: SACRAMENTO CITY COLLEGE PANTHERS

SITE: http://sccpanthers.losrios.edu/football.htm

COMMENT: This team has got the coolest imaginable artwork you could 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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CACTUS BOWL KICKS OFF AT 7PM

The 2011 Cactus Bowl, the all-star game for NCAA Division 2 football, will be kicking off at 7PM Central Time. The game features 88 D2 senior standouts divided into two 44-man rosters (I advocated dividing them into eleven 8-man rosters but got shouted down) and is a great chance for D2 players who may well end up on NFL rosters to showcase themselves once more in a live game format. To watch the game live click here: http://cactusbowl.org/media_galleries/game_webcast.aspx 

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RSU HILLCATS DEFEAT LADY CAVALIERS

Claremore, Okla. – The Rogers State women’s basketball team cruised to its second straight Sooner Athletic Conference victory with a 69-47 rout over St. Gregory’s on Thursday evening at the Claremore Expo.  

The Hillcats led by as many as 31 points in the second half. RSU received a balance scoring attack with 10 players contributing in points Continue reading

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THREE GOLDEN RAMS TO PLAY IN THE CACTUS BOWL

Three Albany State University football players have been selected to play in the 2011 Cactus Bowl, which will be held Friday, Jan. 7, at Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Javelina Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. (CST).

        Running backs Robert Welton and LiRonnie Davis, and linebacker Jacob Hardwick are among the 88 football players that will participate in the Division II senior all-star game.
        Hardwick, a senior from Virginia Beach, Va., led the SIAC and was ranked Continue reading

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BLUE DRAGONS HOOPS RANKED NUMBER ONE IN THE NJCAA

By Steve Carpenter

HCC Sports Information Director

For the first time in 18 years, the Hutchinson Community College men’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the NJCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Rankings.

The NJCAA released the first poll of 2011 on Tuesday and the Blue Dragons (14-0) assume the Continue reading

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RAILSPLITTERS MOVIN’ ON UP IN THE RANKINGS!

HARROGATE, TN – The Lincoln Memorial University men’s basketball team continued its climb up the NCAA Division II ladder this week by earning a no. 14 ranking in the latest National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) poll.

Still among the ranks of the unbeaten, the Railsplitters are now 10-0 and continue to add to the program’s best start in school history. Monday night’s 100-62 thrashing of regional opponent Continue reading

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