East Carolina sophomore Lene
Krog advanced to the NCAA Championships after posting a final round 67
in the Central Regional in Baton Rouge, LA.
Krog and Kathleen Ekey of Furman
tied for the second spot and were forced to have a playoff after both
finished at four-under 212. The playoff quickly stopped after both
players hit their drives when a sudden thunderstorm came over the
course. The playoff was resumed after a 43-minute delay but, by the time
the players reached the green, it was too dark to continue. Krog was
awarded the second spot based on her final round score of 67 compared to
Ekey's 74.
Gators the college choice for guard Jai Lucas
Highly-recruited basketball
guard Jai Lucas, the son of former NBA player and coach John Lucas,
announced Monday that he will join the program at defending NCAA
champion Florida.
The younger Lucas also
considered Kentucky and Oklahoma State. He averaged 25 points and six
assists as a senior for his high school in Bellaire, TX, just outside of
Houston. He made 51 percent of his 3-point attempts and 83 percent at
the line.
Miami present Pata's degree to family members
Deceased Miami Hurricanes
football player Bryan Pata received a posthumous degree from Miami at
commencement exercises, six months after he was apparently murdered.
The degree was presented to two
members of Pata's family, who held hands as they walked across the stage
to cheers from the audience.
May 14, 2007
ECU men win C-USA 4x100-meter relay
The Memphis men and Rice women
captured the 2007 Conference USA outdoor track and field championships
at Rice.
East Carolina's men finished
fourth with 114 points, while the Pirate women placed 11th with 34
points.
The ECU men won their first ever
C-USA crown in the 4x100 meter relay with an NCAA regional qualifying
time of 40.19 seconds. The relay squad was comprised of Adian Sanderson,
Jarek Hewitt, David Rucker and Kevin Thompson.
Pirate softball falls in Conference USA final
A lone run by Houston in the
bottom of the first inning proved decisive as East Carolina dropped a
1-0 heartbreaker in the title game of the 2007 Conference USA softball
tournament.
A pair of Pirate errors helped
Houston score the lone run.
Green team rolls as Glanville era kicks off
The Jerry Glanville era at
Division I-AA Portland (OR) State began on a soggy Saturday night at PGE
Park in the annual spring game. The excitement was generated by the
former NFL coach, his offensive coordinator, Mouse Davis, and their
run-and-shoot scheme as the Green team defeated the White team 49-7.
The Green, consisting mainly of
first stringer players, rolled to the easy win behind quarterbacks Brian
White and Tygue Howland. The tandem — who are competing for the starting
role in 2007 — combined to throw for 457 yards and five touchdowns.
May 13, 2007
Black Knights
to face Zips in new Patriot Bowl
The Greater Cleveland Sports
Commission has announced its newly created, owned and operated event,
the Patriot Bowl, an annual college football game featuring a
Mid-American Conference (MAC) team from Ohio and one of the service
academies — Army, Navy or Air Force.
The inaugural game will pit Army
against Akron at 6 p.m. on Sept. 1.
Each year, the game will take
place over Labor Day weekend at Cleveland Browns Stadium. Surrounding
the football game will be patriotic and civic events, including a
tailgate, a Cleveland Firefighters vs. Cleveland Police flag football
pre-game match and spectacular halftime show.
Hurricanes center granted another season
Miami center Anthony King has
been granted a medical redshirt which would allow him to return for a
fifth year of eligibility in 2007-08.
A native of Durham, King
appeared in just eight games before suffering a wrist injury Dec. 6
versus Georgia Tech which sidelined him for the remaining 24 games of
the 2006-07 season. Through eight games he averaged 9.3 rebounds, which
lead the ACC at the time, 7.9 points and 1.8 blocks per game.
King's medical hardship waiver,
granted by the Atlantic Coast Conference, was made possible by a recent
change in NCAA legislature which allows injured student-athletes who
have participated in no more than 30 percent — up from the previous 20
percent — of a team's competitions the possibility of redshirting.
New
Mexico State gives Theus new deal
New Mexico State has reached an
agreement on a restructured contract with basketball coach Reggie Theus.
The Aggies were the most
improved team in NCAA Division I men’s basketball over the last two
seasons (6-24 in 2004-05 to 25-9 in 2006-07; 19-win improvement).
Theus becomes one of the highest
paid basketball coaches in the Western Athletic Conference. The
new contract, which includes $100,000 from the private sector, provides
a continuation of the five-year rollover term and a buyout clause of two
times Theus’ base salary if he leaves for another position in the next
two years.
The financial package of the new
contract is worth $466,000 per season and includes bonus opportunities
that exist in his current contract.
May 12, 2007
Hokies looking for
offensive improvement
For the past two seasons,
Virginia Tech has had the No. 1 defense in college football. It's Tech's
offense which must improve for the Hokies to live up to their preseason
hype, according to a report at hokies.com.
"And it will improve," states
Tech's offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring. "What took place last
season was a learning experience for a lot of us. Believe me, we went
back and looked at every snap, every play, every call, over and over.
"At some positions, we weren't
strong enough. Some guys weren't experienced enough. Basically, some
guys just weren't ready.
"Take (quarterback) Sean (Glennon)
for example. He's been motivated since the end of the Georgia game (bowl
loss) and you could see it in his film study, in his strength and
conditioning work, and his performance this spring. He's not the same
quarterback you saw in his last game, and the reason is the work he's
done since that game."
East Carolina opens the 2007
season at Virginia Tech on Sept. 1.
Penalty shortened for former Buckeyes coach
The Columbus (OH) Dispatch
reported that former Ohio State basketball coach Jim O'Brien is closer
to coaching again after the NCAA reduced but did not eliminate its
show-cause penalty against him.
The NCAA Committee on
Infractions shortened the penalty from five years to two years, meaning
O'Brien could effectively find employment at an NCAA school beginning
May 9, 2009.
Davis, Flutie among gridders getting Hall call
Two former All-America standouts
of current Atlantic Coast Conference schools, linebacker Jeff Davis of
Clemson and quarterback Doug Flutie of Boston College, have been
selected for induction into the National Football Foundation and College
Hall of Fame.
May 11, 2007
Port City FM
joins East Carolina football network
Rock 104.5 WRQR-FM in Wilmington
will be carrying East Carolina football games this fall.
WRQR's signal, which according
to radio-locator.com is rated at 3,100 Watts, stretches along the coast
from North Myrtle Beach, SC, to Sneads Ferry, NC, and to the north along
the I-40 corridor past Wallace, NC.
[View
radio-locator.com's coverage map for WRQR.]
In addition, ESPN Radio 630 WMFD-AM
will serve as the area's home for the weekly Skip Holtz Radio Call-In
Show, which airs each Sunday night during the football season. Radio-locator.com
rates WMFD's transmitter power at 800 Watts in the daytime and 1,000
Watts at night.
[View
radio-locator.com's daytime coverage map for WMFD.]
[View
radio-locator.com's nighttime coverage map for WMFD.]
Pirate
softball takes Conference USA win in ten
Memphis starter Jenna Kubesch
was perfect through eight and two-thirds innings, but East Carolina's
softball team found a way to push across the only run of the game in the
bottom of the tenth inning to defeat the Tigers in the Conference USA
softball tournament at Central Florida.
Memphis (36-24) defeated Tulsa
2-1 in game one earlier in the day to advance and face the Pirates
(39-18), who received a bye in the first round.
Miami's ADee stepping down after 15 years
Miami athletic director Paul Dee
has announced his intentions to step down from his position effective
June 1, 2008. Dee will remain athletic director for the next year and
then become a member of the Miami faculty.
Dee's career at Miami began in
1981 as the university's vice-president and general counsel. He was
named athletic director in 1993. When he steps down next year, the
60-year-old Dee will have served in his position for 15 years, tied with
Jack Harding for the longest tenure of any Miami athletic director.
