Shun Brown promoted to Lane College offensive coordinator

title image via Lane Athletics Lane College announced that wide receivers and tight ends coach/ passing game coordinator Shun Brown has been promoted to the Dragons’ offensive coordinator.  Before coming to Lane, Coach Brown spent a season at Louisiana-Monroe, where he served as an offensive analyst under Rich Rodriguez. His contributions helped head coach Terry Bowden improve a Warhawks team that failed to get in the win column one time the previous season by 4 victories.  Coach Brown played his collegiate football at the University of Arizona where he was…

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Allen University XC receives team award, more than 6 dozen athletes earned Conference All-Academic Honours

Courtesy of the SIAC  The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference recognized 1,127 student-athletes for their academic excellence Wednesday, including 76 student-athletes from Allen University. Among the highlights, Allen’s Women’s Cross Country team was awarded the SIAC’s Team Award for posting a 3.37 cumulative grade point average as a team, the highest among their SIAC foes.  The SIAC Commissioner’s All-Academic Team features student-athletes who earned a 3.2 or better cumulative grade point average for the past academic year. Allen saw representatives from all nine of their SIAC affiliated teams, including men’s basketball…

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Albany State football makes waves with top-20 D-II transfer class

In his first season at Albany State, head coach Quinn Gray Sr. led the Golden Rams to a 6-5 overall record and an appearance in the SIAC Championship Game.  Gray, like every other college football coach in the country is scouring the nation to identity, recruit and sign the talent necessary to improve his program.  For the vast majority of college football’s time span, the way to do that was building through high school players. Transfer players factored into that recipe but having to sit a year before being eligible to…

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Albany State softball sweeps Clark Atlanta

title image courtesy of Albany State Softball Courtesy of Albany State Sports Information 9 Winner ASU 6 CAUSB24 Team R H E ASU 9 12 3 CAUSB24 6 7 4 W: McLeod, Romona (7-3) L: Coreya Quarterman (5-14) The Golden Rams returned to the softball diamond for the first time in April after almost two weeks due to the weather. Albany State plated five runs in the top of the sixth of the opener for the early win and scored seven in its first two at bats to complete the Saturday sweep of Clark…

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Jason Bryant gets 500th career victory in Albany State softball split with Benedict

title image via Albany State Softball Courtesy of Albany State Sports Information  The Lady Rams ‘battery’ made sure the day ended on a high note. Albany State saw Trista Murphy fire a 4-hitter and Tiana McFarland belted a solo home run in the fifth for a 1-0 softball win over Edward Waters after the visitors took the opener 6-1 for the split.  After recording a no-hitter last Sunday night, Murphy scattered four hits over the opening five innings of work. In the home fifth, McFarland stepped up to the plate…

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2024 SIAC Women’s Basketball Round 2 Tournament Recap

title image via the SIAC Courtesy of the SIAC Round two of the 2024 SIAC Basketball Tournament presented by Cricket saw lopsided victories and close upsets as seeds three, four, and five from the east and west divisions hit the hardwood for the first time this postseason.   Tuskegee (15-9, 11-8 SIAC), the west division fourth seed, defeated Allen (11-14, 7-12 SIAC),the east division fifth seed, 68-53 after going on a 18-2 point run in the fourth quarter. The Golden Tigers dominated in the paint scoring 40 points to Allen’s 18. Sumaiyah Abdur-Rahim led Tuskegee in scoring with…

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SIAC Women’s Basketball Tourney: Round 1 Recap

title image via the SIAC Courtesy of the SIAC Day one of the women’s bracket opened with an upset and defensive battle that sent LeMoyne-Owen and Spring Hill to an early exit.  Benedict (4-23, 1-18 SIAC), the number seven seed in the east division, defeated LeMoyne-Owen (13-14, 8-11 SIAC), the number six seed in the west division, 54-51 after fighting off a late effort surge by the Lady Magicians in the fourth quarter.  After falling to a 10-point deficit in the second quarter, the Lady Magicians tied the game twice in the final two minutes of the…

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Albany State women’s hoops to begin SIAC Tournament play this afternoon

title image via Albany State Basketball Courtesy Albany State Sports Information Albany, GA – March 4, 2024 – Albany State University women’s basketball will start their postseason at the 2024 SIAC Women’s Basketball Championship, presented by Cricket, today., Monday, March 4th. The team is slated to compete against the Spring Hill College Badgers. The match-up is scheduled for 5pm at Tiger Arena, on the campus of Savannah State University. Entering the championship, the Golden Rams hold a record of 5-22 (5-14 SIAC), while the Badgers come in with a 6-17 record (6-13 SIAC).…

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Late charge comes up short for Albany State in SIAC opening round

Courtesy of Albany State Sports Information 69 Albany St. (GA) 9-19,7-14 SIAC 80 Winner Lane 12-16,8-12 SIAC Team 1 2 F Albany St. (GA) 24  45  69 Lane 36  44  80 SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Golden Rams charged hard until the end to kick off tournament week. Albany State fell behind midway in the first half and charged hard in the second half, but Lane College held down the stretch to take the 80-69 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament First Round Sunday decision. The two Conference foes traded short runs midway in…

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Late inning heroics lifts Albany State Baseball over Auburn University at Montgomery

title image via Albany State Baseball Courtesy of Albany State Sports Information 7 Auburn Mont 8-8 8 Winner ALBANY STATE UNIV 7-5 Team R H E Auburn Mont 7 11 1 ALBANY STATE UNIV 8 13 0 W: Griffeth, Sebastian (1-1) L: Brett Pitts (2-2) The Golden Rams kept battling Wednesday until they registered the ‘W.’ Albany State chipped away at its deficit over the final five innings before Emory Stephens lined a bottom of the 10th walk-off single to defeat Auburn University-Montgomery, 8-7, on the baseball diamond. The Warhawks (8-8) built a 7-3 lead midway through the sixth…

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