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GREENSBORO – For anyone wondering why North Carolina A&T men’s basketball coach Jerry Eaves schedules a team like Carver Bible College in January, the answer became clear Tuesday night. It took an extra five minutes before the Aggies were finally able to beat the Cougars 85-76 in overtime. The win snapped an eight-game losing streak for N.C. A&T. All eight [...]

Amere May of Delaware State was named Rookie of the Week and Kendall Gray, also of Delaware State, earned Defensive Player of the Week accolades in the MEAC’s Weekly Basketball honors. Akeem Ellis of Coppin State University was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week. Ellis (F, 6-6, 210, Sr., Brooklyn, N.Y.) averaged 20.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 5.0 [...]

Las Vegas – Adrian Coleman had 16 points and nine rebounds to lead Bethune-Cookman past Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 61-52 on Thursday in the Las Vegas Classic. Also for the Wildcats (4-9), Anthony Breeze and Kevin Dukes each had nine points. Bethune-Cookman ended a four-game losing streak. Chris Hawkins-Mast led the Islanders (1-9) with 15 points and eight rebounds. James King [...]

Washington, DC -  Glenn Andrews and Calvin Thompson combined for 13 points in overtime to help Howard University defeat the University of Delaware, 88-83 in a non-conference men’s game at Burr Gymnasium.  The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Bison while the Blue Hens had their two-game win streak end. Andrews, who poured in a career-high 28 points, [...]

Eugene, Ore. – In a contest that saw eight ties and 13 lead changes, a late second half run was all the Eagles of North Carolina Central needed to finish off the Panthers of Prairie View A&M 69-58 to end the 2011 Global Sports Hoops Showcase with a 2-1 record, giving the maroon and gray momentum heading into the holiday [...]

Norfolk, VA. – Junior forward Chelsea Sanders tied a career-high with 22 points and four assists as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore took down Old Dominion University with a 63-59 victory on Wednesday afternoon at Ted Constant Convention Center, one of the toughest places to play in women’s basketball. The game proved to be a career-high effort for several [...]

BALTIMORE – Four Bears scored in double figures and Morgan State hit 47.4 percent from the field to pull away from Loyola Marymount, 69-45 at Hill Field House. Junior DeWayne Jackson led MSU with a game-high 14 points and eight rebounds, while Larry Bastfield finished with 13 points, and Kevin Thompson and Ameer Ali posted 12 and 10 points respectively. Morgan State shot [...]

Howard junior forward Saadia Doyle was named Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Week after a standout performance against Wake Forest that resulted in a 63-59 victory on Dec. 18. The Atlanta, Ga. native scored 28 points along down seven rebounds, one block and one steal in the win over Wake Forest at Lawrence Joel Coliseum in Winston Salem, N.C. [...]

Toledo, Ohio – Kyle O’Quinn scored off an inbound pass from Pendarvis Williams with 2.4 seconds left to break a tie and give Norfolk State a 72-70 win at Toledo’s Savage Hall on Tuesday night, the Spartans’ first-ever win in three tries against Mid-American Conference opposition. Toledo (7-4) rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to tie the game at 70-all [...]

  Percy Woods of University of Maryland Eastern Shore (www.umeshawks.com) Norfolk, VA – Maryland Eastern Shore’s Percy Woods was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week, the conference announced on Monday. Prince Okoroh of Howard was named Rookie of the Week while Yannick Crowder of Florida A&M earned Defensive Player of the Week accolades. Woods (G, 6-1, 190, [...]

Greensboro – Johnson C. Smith’s women’s basketball players may have come to Corbett Sports Center with a figurative Division II label on their backs, but they didn’t let that stop them from giving North Carolina A&T a 40-minute vigorous tussle. It took a late second-half surge, started by an Amber Calvin 3-pointer as the shot clock ticked down, before the [...]

Howard fell behind 17-0 to start the game, rallied to get within two before a late push proved to be the difference as 18th ranked Georgetown escaped the upset and shook off the upset-minded Bison, 62-48 before 8,120 at the Verizon Center. Howard (3-6) could get nothing going as the Hoyas bolted out to a 17-0 lead. Using a combination [...]

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. – Four University of Maryland Eastern Shore men’s basketball players tallied double figures in the Hawks 95-69 win over Mercy College Saturday. Ishaq Pitt had a game-high 18 points shooting an impressive 75 percent (6-of-8) from the field. Percy Woods marked his first double-double of the season with a 16-point 10-assist performance. Pitt, a freshman, scored 12 [...]

NEW YORK— Has the battle of the Real “HU” come to its conclusion? Never, but Hampton did add another notch under its belt with a 71-53 win over its rival, Howard University. The crowd was electric as two of the “Black Ivy League” teams squared off at the historic Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hampton controlled the tempo [...]

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lady Hawks and Florida A&M University Lady Rattlers earned the top seeds in the northern and southern divisions of the 2011 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Volleyball Championship tournament.The Lady Hawks finished the season with an unblemished 12-0 mark in conference play en route to their fifth consecutive MEAC northern divisional title. UMES recorded over [...]

BALTIMORE, Md. – Quarterback Chris Walley passed for two touchdowns and ran for another, and the Norfolk State defense held Morgan State scoreless in the second half to lead the Spartans to a 47-14 win on Saturday afternoon at Hughes Stadium, clinching the Spartans’ first-ever outright MEAC football title and Division I FCS playoff bid. The 22nd-ranked Spartans (9-2, 7-1 [...]

Virginia University of Lynchburg plans to launch a football program this fall, more than a half-century after disbanding the team in 1954. The team will begin practice on Aug. 1 and play its first game against North Carolina A&T State University on Sept. 3. The revival of the football program is part of a large-scale effort to bring back sports [...]

More workmanlike than wowing, defending champion David Oliver ran a steady race to claim his second straight and third overall national 110 hurdles championship with a time of 13.04 at the U.S. Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR. “It wasn’t a very good start, I stayed in the blocks a little longer to not false start. [...]