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BCSP Notes . . .
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This year's Whataburger Cactus Bowl All-Star Game will
include seven players from the CIAA and SIAC in a game featuring
the top 80 players from NCAA Division II schools.
Winston-Salem State safety Stephon
Kelly and defensive end Robert Mackey will be joined
by Virginia Union defensive end James
Atkins, Tuskegee defensive end Damon
Tolson and cornerbacks Keyon Nash (Albany
State) and Michael Posey
(Livingstone) on the East defensive squad.
Fort Valley State wide receiver Kent
Schoolfield, Jr. is the lone HBCU representative on the East
offensive team.
The NCAA Division II All-Star game was held
in Fargo, N.D., for the first seven years. It was the
Snow Bowl in North Dakota but underwent a name
change when moved to South Texas last year.
Fox Sports Southwest will televise the game
live Friday, January 11 at 6:30 pm (CST) from
Texas A&M-Kingsville's Javelina Stadium. It is also
available nationally and internationally on satellite
dishes (Direct TV system channel 643 | Dish Network
system channel 416).
- Alabama State senior quarterback Darnell Kennedy, the SWAC
offensive player of the year, was 9 of 27 for 99 yards with one interception
and rushed seven times for 21 yards as his Gray team lost 28-10 Christmas Day
in the Blue-Gray Classic on his home field, Montgomery's Cramton Bowl.
Kennedy was joined on the Gray team by teammate, Tango McCauley, a first
team all-SWAC offensive lineman, Grambling linebacker Robert
Taylor, a first team all-SWAC selection, Winston-Salem State safety
Stephon Kelly, the CIAA defensive player of the year, Jackson
State receivers T. C. Taylor and Lawrence Story, and Andre
Arnold, a Grambling State defensive back.
Taylor, a first team all-SWAC selection, had
two catches for 15 yards while Story did not make a catch.
- North Carolina A&T sophomore safety/kick returner Curtis Deloatch
was the only black college player selected to the Sports Network I-AA Football
All-America first team.
Deloatch, who scored on five of his 20 punt
returns and led all I-AA players averaging 26.5 yards per
return was picked as the first team kick returner. Deloatch
also had two interceptions returned for TDs.
Howard senior defensive end Oby Arah
and linebacker Tracy White were picked to the second
team defense. Third team members included A&T
running back Maurice Hicks, Jackson State
senior wide receiver T. C. Taylor, Alabama State
senior offensive lineman Tango McCauley
and his teammate, punter David Beckford.
- White, Beckford and Grambling linebacker Robert Taylor were
named first team I-AA all-Americans by the American Football Coaches Association
(AFCA).
- Tuskegee running back Bobby Wilson, picked to the second team,
was the only black college selection to the D2Football.com All-American team.
Morehouse defensive back Ronald Smalls received honorable mention.
Black college players were shut out of the Daktronics All-American team.
- Among black college seniors ranked among the best at their positions
by Blesto and the National Scouting Combine are the following:
Dante Wesley, DB, Arkansas-Pine Bluff - 8th, NSC
Rob Harding, QB, Miss. Valley St. - 10th, NSC
Benedict Ibisi, C, Tennessee State - 7th, NSC, 7th BL
Greg Scott, DL, Hampton - 4th, NSC, 7th, BL
Robert Taylor, LB, Grambling - 4th, BL
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