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Monroe sets Southern scoring marks
Southern Lady Jaguars senior guard
Rolanda Monroe has become the schools all-time leading scorer.
Monroe scored 15 points in the Lady Jags' win Monday over Jackson State. Her total of 1,643 is three points more than the mark set by Claudene Stovall who played for Southern from 1985 to 1989. Monroe's first-basket in the game, a 3-pointer, gave her the school's all-time 3-pointers mark, at 168, one more than former teammate Cherise Sims (1999-2003).
Hampton's Taylor tabs Beatty
Hampton University head football coach
Joe Taylor has turned to successful Hampton-area high
school coach Chris Beatty to be the Pirates' new
offensive coordinator.
Beatty, 32, who employed a wide-open
passing attack while leading Landstown High of Newport
News, Va., to the 2004 Virginia High School League
Division 6 state championship and appearances in the last
thee state championship games, will replace Fred
Kaiss, who resigned from the position on Dec. 31.
Under Beatty's guidance, Landstown, in Virginia Beach, Va., posted 40 wins in 42 games and won 10 of 12 playoff games during his three years at the school. Taylor hired Beatty on Jan. 6 reportedly to get more out of a passing attack which has struggled despite the Pirates winning back-to-back Mid Eastern Athletic Conference championships. The Pirates have lost the past two years in the first round of the NCAA Div. I-AA playoffs.
Four quarterbacks threw for more that 3,300 yards in a season during Beatty's eight seasons as a high school coach. Two of the receivers on this year's Landstown team, Percy Harvin and Damon McDaniel, who have both landed scholarships to play for Urban Meyer at Florida, were rated among the top ten in the nation at the position. McDaniel's brother Marquay is a wide receiver/kick returner on the Hampton squad. Beatty had not made a secret of his desire to coach on the college level. "Hopefully we'll be able to throw more and use the spread offense," Beatty told the Hampton Daily Press. "I think I have something to add and can help the program get to the next level. I'm not intimidated by the challenge of coaching on this level." Beatty will assume his duties on Jan. 15.
Black college greats on Div. II Anniversary Ballot
Five former black college basketball standouts
and two of the legendary black college hoops coaches
are among the candidates for the NCAA Div. II Elite
Eight 50th Anniversary Team.
The players are Earl "The Pearl" Monroe
of Winston-Salem State, Earl Jones
of the University of the District of Columbia,
Michael Britt, also of UDC, Leonard "Truck" Robinson
of Tennessee State and Marvin "The Human Eraser" Webster
of Morgan State.
The coaching candidates are the late Clarence "Big House" Gaines of Winston-Salem State and current Virginia Union head coach Dave Robbins.
Britt and Jones formed the dynamic duo that led UDC to the 1982 Div. II national title and to the runners-up spot in 1983. Jones, a slender 6-6 dunking machine, averaged 25.9 points and 10.9 rebounds over his two years while Jones, a 6-11 former national high school player of the year, averaged 26.9 points per game and 6 rebounds in two seasons.
Monroe, who went on to a Hall of Fame NBA career with the Baltimore Bullets and New York Knicks, dazzled the nation averaging 43.2 points per game while leading WSSU to the 1967 Div. II national title under Gaines, the first NCAA basketball crown won by an HBCU. Monroe averaged 31 points and 12 rebounds in his WSSU career.
Robinson averaged 17.2 ppg., and 10.8 rpg., over two years at Tennessee State while leading the Tigers to a third-place finish in 1972 and a second-place finish in 1973.
Webster, a 6-11 center and shot blocker extraordinaire, led the Bears to the Div. II national championship in 1974 averaging 22.6 points and 21.6 rebounds per game. Both Robinson and Webster had long NBA careers.
Robbins has won Div. II championships at Virginia Union in 1980, 1992 and 2005 while compiling a 12-3 mark (.800) in six appearances at the Elite Eight.
Voting can be done on-line at http://ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/fanpolls and will be concluded on January 31, 2006. Fans can vote for ten student athletes and two coaches. The results will be released on Feb. 10, 2006.
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