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05.24.06: Jake
Smith headlines ECU's all-league picks ... ECU softball's
Krista Jessup inks pro deal ... SMU football gains award for
100% grad rate |
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05.23.06: Hart
may nix FSU recruit's grant after arrest ... Memphis, Rice
players take weekly awards ... Lady Vols coach rewarded with
fat new deal |
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05.22.06: Rice
hosting C-USA baseball; ECU starts early ... Inman gets
two-game suspension at UGa ... Tide linebacker booked on
multiple charges |
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05.21.06: 'Ride
with The Voice' fundraiser set for June ... Ga. Tech to host
Irish and ESPN Game Day ... Smith, Bowden, Paterno headed for
I-A Hall |
05.20.06: 'Big
House' set for $226 million makeover ...
C-USA lands seven on preseason football list ...
Decades-long coaching career ends for Sutton |
05.19.06: Holland
heads up hoops scheduling task force ... Houston, Rice
hurlers on
10-man Clemens list ... Tucker turns away from Texas,
retains agent |
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05.18.06: Navy,
NCSU limit tickets for ECU fans ... C-USA trio invited to
USA Baseball tryouts ... Wolfpack's Brackman to sit out rest
of season |
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05.17.06: Houston
hurler gets national pitching honor ... Former UVa grid
coach Blackburn dies at 93 ... Three players leaving Ole
Miss hoops program |
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05.16.06: Former
ECU slugger Tracy inks mega-deal ... C-USA announces weekly
baseball awards ... Third Duke lacrosse player indicted |
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05.15.06: Frasure,
Cotto pace ECU in C-USA track & field ... Tulsa headed to
Fresno softball regional ... Texas RB nabbed with pot-filled
backpack |
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05.14.06: Southern
Cal cager shot and killed ... ECU's Hewett moves into C-USA
sprint finals ... Tulsa wins softball crown on walkoff homer
... Black college football pioneer Robinson dies |
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05.13.06: ECU's
Eric Frasure wins C-USA hammer throw ... ECU's Jake Smith in
running for Bench Award ... Houston boots Pirates from
softball tourney ... Illini plan major renovations of
football stadium |
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05.12.06: Pirates
still alive in C-USA softball tournament ... ECU women tied
for 20th in golf regional ... St. John's receives ruling on
infractions |
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05.11.06: Harrell
makes first team All C-USA ... Danger of spearing in
football cited ... Prep star says dream led him to Jayhawks |
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05.10.06: Vols
sign multi-sport standout Mattingly ... 2006 College
Football Hall class announced ... Ducks tab Casey Martin to
guide golf team |
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05.09.06: ECU's
Harrell honored on eve of tournament ... Washington's Romar
to guide USA under-18's ... Cavs, Terps take aim on NCAA
lacrosse title |
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05.08.06: Mountaineers
to be recognized in Raleigh ... Towe to join Lowe at NCSU
... 'Noles edge Deacs in record setter |
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05.07.06: N.C.
State's long hunt officially over ... ECU gains berth in
C-USA Softball Tourney |
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05.06.06: Hoops
rule committee looks at 3-point distance ... Blue chipper
makes late commitment to Duke ... Colorado cage coach faces
season in limbo |
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05.05.06: Lowe
and behold, Pack fills its vacancy ... Horns, Sooners extend
deal with Cotton Bowl ... Mascot lands 7th-seeded Illini on
the road |
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05.04.06: ECU's
Harrell snares another C-USA award ... 'Bama okays hefty new
contract for Shula ... Downey heading from Bearcats to
Gamecocks |
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05.03.06: ECU's
Chris Moore signs deal with Saints ... NCSU represented on
World Cup team ... Politics: Shuler projected to face Rep.
Taylor |
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05.02.06: ECU's
Baker inks free agent pact with Steelers ... ECU women
golfers headed for East regional ... UAB's Hackney signs
with Browns |
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05.01.06: Giants
take ECU's Whimper in fourth round ... Memphis back Williams
selected by Panthers ... More names popping up in N.C. State
search |
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News Nuggets, 05.25.06
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Large Houston recruiting class becomes larger
Houston basketball coach Tom Penders
announced that Anthony Jones, a 6-6 forward from Seminole State College in
Oklahoma, has signed to play for the Cougars in 2006-07, according to a
release on the school's athletics Website.
Jones is the seventh recruit to sign
with the Cougars for the upcoming season, joining a Penders reconstruction
effort that has also attracted a pair of transfers from other Division I
schools.
The Cougars' personnel makeover is
on a scale similar to that of East Carolina,
where second-year Pirate coach Ricky Stokes has also signed a
seven-man class, including five prep
players and two juco transfers.
Jones averaged 8.5 points. 4.6 rebounds
and 2.5 blocked shots per game as a sophomore for Seminole while shooting
51.8 percent from the field.
He went to Seminole after being named
the First-Team All-District and Defensive Player of the Year as a senior
when he averaged 13 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots per game at
Richland Hills High School in Fort Worth.
Jones rejoins his teammate from
Seminole, Robert Lee, who signed with the Cougars earlier this spring.
The other members of Houston's signing
class include Nic Mosley of Bellville High School, Robert McKiver and Tafari
Toney of San Jacinto College, Marcus Malone of Lee College, Charlie Jones of
Blinn College.
Texas transfer Dion Dowell will also
play for Houston in 2006-07, and the Cougars signed another transfer, Marcus
Cousin from Seton Hall, who will sit out the 2006-07 season.
Duke
women's lacrosse supports men's team
According to a report in the Durham
Herald-Sun, the Duke women's lacrosse team plans on wearing sweatbands with
the word "innocent" on their arms or legs during their Final Four appearance
against Northwestern on Friday.
"Obviously we want to win a national
championship for ourselves, but definitely also for the university and the
men's team," junior Leigh Jester said. "They don't really have a chance to
play their season, which is a shame.
"We'd love to bring it home not only
for ourselves, but also for them."
The newspaper also reported that
women's coach Kerstin Kimel had former Duke men's coach Mike Pressler speak
to the team after practice Tuesday. Pressler had resigned on April 5 in the
wake of allegations that several of his players sexually assaulted an exotic
dancer who had been hired to perform at a team party.
Wolfpack hands Heels ACC Tournament loss
Gib Hobson picked the perfect time to
throw North Carolina State's first complete game of the season, and Drew
Martin had three hits in his first collegiate start Wednesday as the
Wolfpack defeated fourth-ranked North Carolina 9-3 in the opening round of
the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, according to an account
at
gopack.com.
N.C. State improved to 36-19 with the
win and will face Virginia at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The Cavaliers were a 6-2
winner over Florida State in the day's first game. North Carolina fell to
45-12 with the loss and will play Florida State in a 10 a.m. elimination
game on Thursday.
East Carolina's win over the Wolfpack
this season in Greenville would be enhanced by the NCSU win over the Heels,
slightly strengthening the Pirates' standing with the NCAA Tournament
selection committee, which will announce this year's pairings on Monday.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from other sources. Copyright 2006
Bonesville.net and other publishers. All rights reserved. This material may not be
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