UNDER THE BANNER
What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
ASU CLINCHES, HU NEXT: Go ahead and pencil in Alabama State for the Dec. 11 SWAC Championship Game in Birmingham, Al. The defending SWAC East Division champions earned a return trip to the title game with a convincing 37-23 win over Grambling State Saturday at the Tigers' homecoming game. The Hornets host Miss. Valley State Saturday (1:30 p.m.) Southern (7-2, 5-0) can clinch tie for the SWAC West Division title with a win Saturday (7 p.m.) at home vs. winless Texas Southern (0-9, 0-6). The Jaguars close out the regular season on Nov. 27 vs. Grambling in the Bayou Classic.
Hampton (8-1, 5-1) raced out to a 17-0 halftime lead and held on to knock off Bethune-Cookman, 24-17 to get within a game of the MEAC championship. The Pirates can clinch the title Saturday (1 p.m.) with a win at home against North Carolina A&T (3-6, 1-4). A Hampton win would earn the Pirates the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Div. I-AA playoffs.
CIAA GRID STARS: North Carolina Central quarterback
Adrian Warren and Fayetteville State
senior linebacker Charles Roberts led individual award
winners as the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
unveiled its top players of the 2004 season
last week. Warren, a junior from Raleigh, N.C., earned the
offensive player of the year award after guiding the resurgent Eagles to an
8-2 finish leading the conference in passing (138-264 passes,
1,746 yards, 20 TDs), ranking first in passing efficiency and second
in total offense (176 ypg.). Roberts, a 6-1 senior linebacker
from Fayetteville, N.C., racked up 115 total tackles, 53 of
them solo with three sacks in pacing the West Division
champs. Roberts ranks in the top four of the CIAA in
tackles. Jonathan Autry of FSU, a six-foot QB from Spring
Lake, N.C., was selected as the 2004 Rookie of the Year.
Autry finished the season with 604 passing yards and 47
completions as the starting signal caller for the Broncos. The
all-CIAA first team and players of the year were in
attendance at the Football Championship Banquet on November 4,
at the Raleigh (N. C.) Marriott Crabtree Valley.
| OFFENSE | TEAM | CL | HT | WT | HOMETOWN |
| TE - Jonathan Biddle | FSU | SR | 6'2" | 240 | Fayetteville, NC |
| OL - Carlos Rojas | FSU | SR | 6'2" | 285 | Miami, FL |
| OL - Ricardo Phillips | NCCU | SR | 6'5" | 300 | Chesapeake, VA |
| OL - Robert Rhodes | SHAW | SR | 6'3" | 320 | Los Angeles, CA |
| OL - Emmanuel Akah | WSSU | SR | 6'4" | 330 | London, NC |
| OL - Brian Scott | WSSU | SR | 6'5" | 350 | Oxford, NC |
| WR - Chris Jeter | LC | JR | 5'9" | 173 | Jonesville, SC |
| WR - Torey Ross | NCCU | JR | 6'4" | 190 | Jackson, MS |
| QB - Adrian Warren | NCCU | JR | 6'5" | 208 | Raleigh, NC |
| RB - Jerrick Bines | WSSU | SR | 5'11" | 180 | W-S, NC |
| RB - Dion McIver | SHAW | SR | 6'0" | 201 | Lillington, NC |
| KR - Gamar Montgomery | SAC | SO | 5'11" | 175 | Gaffney, SC |
| PK - Ross McKernan | FSU | JR | 6'0" | 195 | Greenville, NC |
| DEFENSE | |||||
| DL - Greg Moore | ECSU | FR | 6'5" | 240 | Teachy, NC |
| DL - Scheldon Connor | NCCU | SR | 6'3" | 260 | Charlotte, NC |
| DL - Rashad Jackson | VUU | SR | 6'4" | 260 | Atlanta, GA |
| DL - Phillip Betts | WSSU | SR | 6'3" | 255 | Oxford, NC |
| LB - Charles Roberts | FSU | SR | 6'1" | 225 | Fayetteville, NC |
| LB - Moises Gordon | LC | SR | 6'1" | 220 | Patterson, NJ |
| LB - Chris Peavy | SHAW | SR | 6'2" | 235 | Syracuse, NY |
| DB - Atcheson Conway | BSU | SR | 6'1" | 200 | Silver Spring, MD |
| DB - Howard Williams | ECSU | SR | 6'1" | 185 | Elizabath City, NC |
| DB - Walt Williams | FSU | SR | 6'0" | 175 | Miami, FL |
| DB - Shawn Woodard | SHAW | SR | 6'0" | 180 | Rock Hill, SC |
| P - Kevin Dodson | ECSU | SO | 6'0" | 185 | Camden, NC |
| PR - Darryl Bright | FSU | SR | 6'1" | 185 | Fayetteville, NC |
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