ASU Braves Thursday Night Game Versus Prairie View Not Televised

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LORMAN, Mississippi -- The Alcorn State vs. Prairie View A&M football game on Thursday November 7, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. will not be televised next week.

The game is being marketed as, "A White Out for The Braves Night Out" and all fans and alumni are encouraged to come out and support the Braves by wearing their favorite Alcorn white t-shirts/sweatshirts. We will also be honoring local education and emergency first responders throughout the game.

Local school students in official school uniforms or with a valid school ID from the Vicksburg-Warren School District, Claiborne County School District, Jefferson County School District and Adams County Schools along with emergency personnel— policemen, firemen, emergency medical technicians, paramedics — with Employer ID or in Official Uniform can enter the game free of charge through Gate 8 of Jack Spinks-Marino Casem Stadium. All game attendees will also receive free glow sticks upon entering the gate.

All other General Admission tickets will be $5. General Parking and Premium Parking along with Tailgating will be discounted to $5. RV parking is $15.

Alcorn Faculty and Staff are encouraged to purchase game tickets which includes an invitation to the President's Tailgate Tent where food and drinks will be served and they can pick up their Holiday Turkey Gift from the University at the end of halftime.

The Show Me the Money Punt, Pass and Kick Student Competition will take center stage during halftime festivities. Two students will have the opportunity to kick a 25-yard field goal and win $500 each in cash that will be added to their ASU Gold Cards.

Come out and cheer on your Alcorn State Braves Football Team for this fun, festive and family-friendly evening.


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Young Texas Southern team wary of Southern

HOUSTON, Texas  -- The Southern football team travels to Houston for the second time this season, this time to take on Texas Southern.

The Jaguars are hopeful they’ll make one more trip.

Southern (4-4, 4-2 Southwestern Athletic Conference) takes on the Tigers at 8 p.m. Friday night under the lights of BBVA Compass Stadium, the new home for TSU football and the MLS’ Houston Dynamo.

Both teams are coming off emotional overtime contests. Texas Southern (2-6, 2-5) prevailed 20-17 over Grambling. The thrill-a-minute Jaguars were unable to stage another come-from-behind victory, falling to Alcorn State 44-38 at homecoming.

The Tigers enter Saturday ranked in the bottom half of every major statistical category in the SWAC. Yet Texas Southern will present a challenge because of the defense’s ability to put pressure on opposing quarterbacks; one of the conference’s best punters; and quarterback Homer Causey, the kind of dual-threat quarterback that’s given the Jaguar defense trouble this season.

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Fakler, Jackson collect their fifth GCAC awards of season

Kwame Jackson

Catherine Fakler

NEW ORLEANS -- Xavier University of Louisiana juniors Catherine Fakler and Kwame Jackson, the individual champions Saturday at the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Cross Country Champions, are the GCAC Runners of the Week for Oct. 21-27.

It's more of the same for both runners, who tied XU season records with their fifth GCAC weekly awards of 2013. Jackson has nine career GCAC awards, and Fakler has seven.

Fakler set a school record of 18 minutes, 8.32 seconds at 5,000 meters to win the women's GCAC title by more than 90 seconds. Jackson then won the men's race for the second time in three years. His 8K time was 27:15.84, and he won by nearly 20 seconds.

Xavier won both GCAC team championships for the eighth consecutive year.

Fakler is from Phoenix, Ariz., and a graduate of Xavier College Preparatory Roman Catholic High School. Jackson is from Kingwood, Texas, and a graduate of Kingwood Park High School.

Fakler matched the five GCAC awards of Zahri Jackson, Kwame's younger sister, from 2011. Kwame Jackson shares the XU men's record with Mark Dotson (2009) and Matt Pieri (2010).

By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA

Delaware State Return Home to Face the Howard Bison

DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL - Game 9
HORNETS (3-5; 3-2 MEAC)
vs.
HOWARD BISON (3-5; 2-3 MEAC)
SAT., NOV. 2, 2013 - 2:00 p.m.
ALUMNI STADIUM - DOVER, DELAWARE
HALL OF FAME DAY

THE GAME
Delaware State welcomes long-time rival Howard University to Alumni Stadium for a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference contest. The Hornets (3-5 overall; 3-2 MEAC) are trying to rebound from a 30-7 loss to Hampton last weekend.



DSU trailed 10-0 before capping off a 15-play, 90-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown pass from Cory Murphy to Milton Williams III to pull to within 10-7 with 49 seconds left in the second quarter. The Hornets were outscored 20-0 in the second half.

Hampton used two big plays, a 79-yard run and 75-yard pass, to highlight its second half scoring.
Delaware State receiver Malik Golson topped all players with nine receptions for 80 yards in the contest. The nine catches tied his career high. DSU defensive backs J.R. Robinson and Joe Boyd had interceptions in the contest, the second of the season for each.

Howard (3-5; 2-3) brings a two-game win streak into the contest. The Bison are coming off a 28-14 homecoming victory over Morgan State last Saturday. Howard’s defense forced four turnovers and Charles Philyaw rushed for three touchdowns to highlight the win. The Bison scored on their first possession when Philyaw capped off an 18-play, 65-yard drive with a one-yard touchdown run. He also scored on a seven-yard run in the third quarter and a four-yard run with 1:07 left to play. Howard racked.

THE SERIES
The Hornets and Bison are meeting for the 56th consecutive year and 70th time overall, making it Delaware State's oldest rivalry. Howard won last year’s meting 41-34 to snap a five –game DSU win streak in the series. The Hornets led by 21 points early in the third quarter but was outscored 38-10 the rest of the way in a 41-34 loss to the Bison in the 2012 meeting in Washington, D.C.  The last time the teams met at Alumni Stadium, Delaware State scored the winning touchdown with 2:18 left to play in a 39-36 victory in 2011. The Hornets hold a 35-33-1 lead in the all-time series.

 

HORNETS DROP IN MEAC RACE
Delaware State is still alive in the 2013 MEAC championship race, although last week’s loss to Hampton was a serious blow to the Hornets’ title hopes, DSU is currently fourth place in the current MEAC standings with a 3-2 league record, 

 

Defending champ Bethune-Cookman hoods the top spot with a 4-0 mark, Hampton and South Carolina State are tied for second at 3-1.

 

There’s a logjam behind the Hornets for fifth place. No. Carolina Central, Morgan State and Norfolk State are tied for fifth at 2-2. 

Delaware State, a charter member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), is in its 43^th season of league play. The Hornets have an all-time record of 127-146-1 in MEAC contests.

 

Delaware State has won or shared six MEAC championships. The Hornets claimed outright MEAC titles in 1985, 1989 and 2007, while sharing the crown in 1987, 1988 and 1991. Delaware State was tied for third place in the MEAC with a 5-3 mark in 2012. 

 

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Southern developing receiver depth to complement Lee Doss

HOUSTON, Texas  -- The Southern receiving corps is perhaps best known for the work of Lee Doss.

It’s easy to understand why Doss is the face of the group. He’s a senior.

He’s an All-Southwestern Athletic Conference selection. In two games earlier this season, he scored five touchdowns.

And defenses have rightfully shifted their attention to the playmaking wideout.

Yet the Jaguars are about more than just Doss. They have having a plethora of young, upcoming talent in the cupboard.



Newcomers Willie Quinn and Randall Menard and sophomores Justin Morgan, Nico Talbert and Mike Jones have benefited from the attention Doss has drawn this season, providing big plays on the perimeter Southern.

“We have a great group of kids that just want to come out and compete,” wide receivers coach Chris Coleman said. “Those guys have come in and taken their God-given abilities and maximized it through film study and through repetitions on the practice field, and buying into what the coaches are teaching.”

Quinn’s effect was apparent early this season, when he managed to haul in touchdown passes in of the first three game.

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New Alabama State assistant makes debut

MONTGOMERY, Alabama  -- When Alabama State tips off the 2013-14 season against Huntingdon College in an exhibition game tonight at the Acadome, they’ll be a new face on the Hornet bench.

Michael Curry, an assistant on former Troy coach Don Maestri’s staff for seven years, will replace longtime assistant Courtney Stephens.

“We’ve been very fortunate to have coach Curry join our staff,” Hornets coach Lewis Jackson said. “He’s been good for us. He has a lot of contacts and works well with the student-athletes. We’re excited to have him in the program.”

Jackson made the decision to replace Stephens at the end of the 2012-13 season but withheld comment because of his long friendship with the former Hornet player.

“Coach Stephens had been a real blessing for us,” Jackson said. “He’s been with our team since I’ve been here and has done a lot for the program. We just felt it was the right time for a coaching change to get some new blood in here. But he was a great guy who did a lot for the program.”



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