- Tennessee State's Tigerbelles won
their first Ohio Valley Conference women's outdoor track championship at Murray
State, scoring 128.50 points to hold off runnerup Southeast Missouri State (122).
TSU head coach Chandra
Cheeseborough, the former Olympic and world champion sprinter, was named
OVC coach of the year and Tigerbelle Monique
Demmons won the 1,500-meter run and was second in the 800-meter run. TSU's
Alexandria Wilson was second in both the 100
and 200.
Eastern Illinois won the men's title with 269 points and SEMO was second with
200. TSU's men finished fifth with 74.5 points.
- Norfolk State dethroned defending champion
Florida A&M enroute to a sweep of the men's and women's titles in the
2001 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Tallahassee, Fl.
Norfolk State's women scored 93 points, edging
Bethune-Cookman and host Florida A&M, who finished tied for second with
87 points. FAMU had won four straight titles going into this year's event.
Hampton finished a distant fourth with 59 points,
followed by Morgan State in fifth with 57 points.
On the men's side, the Spartans breezed past the field with 114 points, vaulting
past North Carolina A&T (97), Hampton
(83), Maryland-Eastern Shore (64) and host Florida A&M (62). FAMU was also
the defending men's champion.
Hampton's Travis Ridley was the top male performer with 28 points, which
included a win in the decathlon. Morgan
State's Severine Tanic (21 pts) edged FAMU's
Tangela Neal and four others at 20 points, as the top female performer.
Norfolk State's LaVern Sweat was the top women's coach and NSU's
Floyd Conley was the top men's coach.
Three meet records fell Saturday, as NSU's
Christopher Brown surpassed his 400 meter dash record (45.80) with a
45.60 mark. FAMU's April Jones broke her
record in the 400 intermediate hurdles (1:00.24)
with a 59.86 effort Saturday. Marta
Sterbova of Maryland-Eastern Shore was victorious
in the women's 3000 meter run in 10:22.80 trimming almost 13 seconds off the olf mark
of 10:35.30 set by Coppin State's Iris
Green in 1997.
- Bethune-Cookman shutout Florida
A&M 5-0 to win its second-straight
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference softball title Sunday
at Ormond Beach (Fl.) Sports Complex.
The Wildcats (43-20) now advance to the South Regional Play-in game vs.
Tennessee Tech - the Ohio Valley Conference champion - Friday and Saturday in
Cookesville, Tenn., in a best-of-three series for a berth
to the NCAA playoffs .
In the championship game, Jessica
Cabato threw a three-hit shutout and delivered a pair of key offensive plays. After
the Rattlerettes forced a second game with a 3-0 victory in the double-elimination
tournament, Cabato threw a three-hitter with no walks
and three strikeouts while breaking an 11-inning B-CC scoreless drought on a gutsy
double-steal call that put B-CC ahead.
B-CC Coach Laura Watten earned most outstanding coach honors, while
FAMU pitcher Tenyse Tasby, who pitched all
seven games for the Rattlers, was named the tournament's most outstanding performer.
- Southern won only six events in the
four-day Southwestern Athletic Conference men's track and field championships, but
a strong showing in field events and their overall depth allowed them to run away with
the men's title scoring 233 points outdistancing
Prairie View by 60 points. Jeremy
Pierre won the triple jump for the Jags while
Richard Celestine won the discus, finished third in the shot put and
fourth in the hammer throw, scoring 21 points.
Alabama State outscored defending champion
Alcorn State 160-155 to win the women's championship.
- Southern (43-10) earned its 10th SWAC baseball title under
Roger Cador but had to put out a little extra effort to do it.
SU sailed through its first three games of the SWAC Tournament, winning by
a combined margin of 52-13, including a 24-3 win Saturday over No. 4 seed
Jackson State (29-23). But the defending champion
Tigers turned the tables by routing SU posting
a 16-4 lead at one point and then had the second game score tied at 3-3 through
four innings.
But Southern turned on the juices, going up 9-3, fueled by home runs from
Randy Jones and Franco Blackburn, and
then turned the game over to their relievers to preserve a 10-6 win.
- The Grambling State softball team won the
SWAC Tournament championship by sweeping a pair of games against
Texas Southern. GSU (33-16) came through
the loser's bracket and needed extra innings to defeat Texas Southern 6-5 in the
second game. GSU won the first game, 5-3. The Lady Tigers now await an NCAA
Tournament play-in game.
- Alcorn State women's tennis team put
on an encore performance by repeating as Southwestern Athletic
Conference champ and earning route an automatic berth to the
NCAA tournament. The Lady Braves will find out who they will be playing when the
tournament pairings are announced Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. on the NCAA tournament selection show.
Alcorn State entered the tournament with a 18-9 overall record under fourth-year
head coach Tony Dogden who earned SWAC Coach of the Year honors for the
second straight year with the women.
Freshman Georgia Bushell won the
2001 SWAC singles champion defeating Naisha
Joseph of Grambling State, 6-4, 6-4.
Juniors Sandra Keaveney and
Fiona Pobke were crowned doubles champions.
They defeated Grambling State 8-6 in the doubles championship match.
Keaveny finished the regular season with a 16-9 singles record while
Pobke's singles record was 17-5. Both players finished the regular season with a 15-10 doubles record.
- Second-seeded Francis Marion University, ranked No. 12 shut out
third-seeded Morehouse College 5-0 in the first round
of the 2001 NCAA 11 South Region men's tennis tournament hosted by the University
of North Florida.
- Fourth-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State women's tennis team defeated 9-0 to earn
a berth in the South Region Championship match against Harding University.
Harding advanced to the championship with a 5-3
win over Kennesaw State.
AASU (20-5), the No. 1 seed, swept all three doubles matches from No. 4 seed
Clark Atlanta (17-4), then won all six singles
matches against the Lady Panthers, who were making their first appearance in the NCAA
Division II National Championships.
