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SIAC Football Recap September 1

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018 Brandon King

Clark Atlanta 30, Mississippi College 31 From clarkatlantasports.com: In his first game at quarterback for Clark Atlanta University, Charles Stafford threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns and had a big pass to set up a go-ahead fourth-quarter TD, but Drake McCarter’s 18-yard field goal with 3:58 left lifted Mississippi College to a 31-30 win over CAU Thursday in Clinton, Miss. With CAU (0-1) down 28-23 early in the fourth quarter, Stafford threw a high-arching, 45-yard dart to Drakar Jerry to the Mississippi College 1-yard line. Two plays later, Stafford…

SWAC Football Recaps Week 1

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 Brandon King

Alabama State 26, Tuskegee 20 (OT) The Alabama State had not defeated in-state Tuskegee in six years and as they trailed for most of the game, it appeared that the streak was headed to a seventh year. However when the Hornets’ quarterback Darryl Pearson, Jr. scored to tie the contest at 20 apiece with 5:09 remaining in the game. Tuskegee was unable to make anything happen on their subsequent drive and Alabama State got the ball back and ran out the clock to take the game into overtime. In the…

Tuskegee football player Jabari Bailey has career tragically ended

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018 Brandon King

Jabari Bailey was set to head to Tuskegee this summer for camp and begin to actualize his dream of playing college football. Sadly that dream was ended when Bailey was helping a friend who car had malfunctioned, leaving him stranded on the side of the road. A car struck Bailey, pinning him between the two vehicles and severing his leg. The entire university is heartbroken for Jabari, his family and for all of us who know him. There are no words to describe how it felt to hear this terrible news.…

Albany State names Patrick Gayle as Men’s Basketball Coach

July 12, 2018July 12, 2018 Brandon King

Albany State introduced Patrick Gayle as their new Men’s Basketball coach as a press conference earlier this week. Gayle comes to the Golden Rams after compiling a 125-51 record , two regular season conference championships and four NAIA tournament berths in six seasons as the head coach at Division II St. Thomas University. Last season he led St.Thomas to a 23-8 record and the Sun Conference regular season title. Gayle was also named the Sun Conference Coach of the Year. Coach Gayle will look to implement an uptempo style of…

Twenty-Nine Student-Athletes received degrees at Albany State Spring Commencement

May 10, 2018 Brandon King

Of the nearly 600 students that received their degrees Saturday during Albany State University’s Fall Commencment, twenty-nine of them were student-athletes. Split over the course of the morning and evening sessions, the twenty-nine student-athletes represented eight teams. Broken down specifically as follows: 6 football, 5 softball, 5 baseball, 3 volleyball, 3 cheerleading 3 each from men’s and women’s basketball and 2 from women’s tennis. College of Arts and Humanities Major: Criminal Justice Marvin Lewis, Football Keona Livatt, Women’s Tennis Stefan Whitehead, Football Major: Mass Communications Zane Fields, Football Bryant Prather,…

Texas Southern defeats Alabama State in SWAC quarterfinals

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Brandon King

Texas Southern’s on fire shooting in the second half to claim victory over Alabama State 90-76 and advance to the semifinals of the SWAC Men’s Basketball Tournamemt. The Tigers shot 65% from the floor in the deciding half and that proved to be too much for the Hornets. Texas Southern had four players in double figures, led by Donte Clark, who scored a game-high 30 points. Trae Jefferson had 24 ; Marquis Salmon put in 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and Derrick Bruce chipped in with 12. Texas Southern…

Claflin University wins 2018 Men’s Basketball Tournament

March 6, 2018 Brandon King

The Claflin University took the 2018 SIAC Men’s tournament crown by defeating Clark Atlanta University 69-61 in the championship game. It was a wire-to-wire win for Claflin, who jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the early going and never looked back, leading by as much as 13 in the first half. Claflin would take a 35-22 lead into the half. An Akil Douglas for CAU three-point play lead off the scoring in the second half, to cut the lead to 10 at 35-25. Claflin would respond with four straight…

Clark-Atlanta comes from behind to beat Benedict in SIAC Semis

March 3, 2018 Brandon King

Clark-Atlanta rallied from 13 down to defeat Claflin and earn a spot Saturday’s SIAC championship game. Despite their All-Conference and All-American forward Brandon Morris picking up two early fouls, Benedict was able to build a ten-point halftime lead off the strength of blistering shoot from behind the arc. Benedict shot 8-15 from three-point range in the first half and shot 50% overall (14-28) from the floor. Benedict would build a 15 point lead at 47-32, its largest of the evening, on Dimitri Cook’s layup with 15:24 remaining in the ballgame.…

Claflin defeats Morehouse in SIAC Semis 77-69

March 2, 2018 Brandon King

The Claflin University Panthers can make a claim that no other team in the SIAC, or the nation can- they have defeated the Morehouse College team this season. The Fighting Maroon Tigers were 25-2 this season and Claflin is the “2” in that record. The second defeat came earlier today in the semifinals of the SIAC tournament where the Panthers defeated the Maroon Tigers 77-69. In the early going, a Triston Thompson three-point shot put Claflin up 5-2. It is a lead they would hold until the 6:45 mark where…

Clark-Atlanta defeats Albany State in SIAC quarters