Marching 100 Drum major dies after Florida Classic. Band Director fired.6 NOVEMBER 29-DEcEMBER 6, 2011 FOllOw Us theyardweekly theyardhbcu theyardhbcu First Time Champs First time Conference Volleyball Champions Jackson State and Maryland-Eastern Shore will face a tough task in NCAAs. 3 2 3 1 lADY BUllDOGs wHOOP TENNEssEE TEcH Whiquitta Tobar (above) led the Lady Bulldogs with 17 points in Alabama A&M’s 61-35 victory at Elmore Gym Alyssa Strickland and NaDra Robertson came up big for A&M as the duo finished with 11 points Jackson State celebrates after their victory over Alabama A&M. apiece on 8-of-12 shooting. BALTIMORE—The University 11 digs, adding three aces and a of Maryland Eastern Shore won pair of assists. Vaitai also got a QB READY the Mid-Eastern Athletic Con- double-double, earning 10 kills, Alabama A&M coach Anthony ference Championship for the 11 digs, two aces and a pair of Jones said Tuesday that he expects first time ever with a five-set vic- blocks. Ibe amassed nine kills starting quarterback Deaunte tory over Florida A&M (15-25, and six blocks. Vicic set 46 as- Mason, who sprained the medial 25-17, 25-21, 18-25, 15-12) at sists, adding six blocks plus a kill the Physical Education Complex and ace. Lea’Aetoa had six kills collateral ligament in his left knee at Coppin State University. and three aces while Williams in the regular-season finale against With the win, UMES has got five kills and two blocks. Prairie View, to be ready when the earned an automatic berth into For the Rattlers, Ceccarelli Bulldogs take on Grambling in the the NCAA Tournament. The got 22 kills with seven digs and SWAC championship game on Dec. Hawks continue their winning a block. Jovanovic finished with streak with their 19th straight 19 kills, three digs and three 10. victory, improving to 24-6. Flor- blocks. Katherine Huanec had ida A&M falls to 13-13. 11 kills with three digs. After the Rattlers took the Iosia was named the tour- The Heritage Sports first point in the fifth game, a nament’s Most Outstanding The 2011 MEAC Volleyball All-Tournament Team. Radio Network is mourning service error and a Vaitai ace Performer, finishing the three the loss of its Director of gave UMES its first lead at 2-1. matches with 54 kills and leading After dropping the opening digs with 29 and 10 respectively. Communications, Lecounte FAMU took back the advatange the Hawks in that category every set 25-21, JSU rallied to take the Clairissa Moore finished with 13 Conaway. Conaway, 57, with three of the next four match. The rest of the All-Tour- next three 25-17, 25-21, 25-22. kills while, Audrey Harris had points for a 4-3 lead. The Hawks nament Team included Cecca- In the fourth set, 13 digs and Christa Rogers con- passed away in his sleep Monday earned the lead back with an Io- relli, Krysta Gardner and Janeen A&M looked to be on the way tributed 10 assists. night while on the road for sia kill and ace from Jessie Vicic Davis of Bethune-Cookman, Sh- to forcing a fifth and deciding set Edwards was named tourna- the network’s coverage of the (Cambridge, Ontario, Canada) antel Moore of North Carolina after jumping out to a 6-0 lead. ment MVP. She was joined on Florida Classic. Conaway to go up 5-4. Both sides traded Central and Krista Kraskura of But, with A&M leading 16-10, the All-Tournament team by had served as the network’s points when at 7-7 off the serv- Hampton. JSU went on an 11-3 run to take Coleman and Clark. Beckford, ing of Bowens, UMES blocked UMES will face No. 9 UCLA a 21-19 lead. The Lady Tigers Moore and Forman also made communications director for the its way to a 5-0 run, including in the first round of the NCAA never trailed again. the All-Tournament team, while past 3 1/2 years. a Bowens ace and finishing with Tournament on December 2nd Chyna Coleman led JSU with Maya Bell from Alabama State, a Vicic solo block and two com- in Los Angeles 22 kills and nine digs. Christine along with Chanda Journet and bined blocks from Vicic and Ibe —umeshawks.com Edwards and LaToya Clark both JaQuincia Williams from South- SCORES for a 12-7 lead. FAMU got to had double-doubles. Edwards ern to round out the All-Tourna- FOOTBALL within two at 12-9, where UMES wEsTwEgO, LA—The Jack- finished with 17 kills and 14 digs ment selections. Saturday, November 26 and the Rattlers traded points son State Lady Tigers completed while Clark had 55 assists and The Lady Tigers will head to Grambling State 36, Southern 12 up to game point 14-11. After a perfect run through the SWAC 16 digs. Donisha Dunn contrib- Lincoln, Neb. to face the second- FCS Playoffs the Rattlers scored a point, Iosia Volleyball tournament, beating uted 11 kills and Angelica Kelley ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers Old Dominion 35, Norfolk State 18 finished the match with her 25th four-time defending champion joined Daedra Carline with 14 (23-3) on Thursday. Division II Playoffs kill to end the fifth set 15-12 and Alabama A&M. It was the first digs each. —swac.org Winston-Salem State 35, California (PA) 28 secure UMES’s first ever MEAC ever volleyball Championship Karensa Beckford had a dou- Volleyball title. for JSU (29-9) who claimed the ble-double tallying 18 kills and Thursday, November 24 Alabama State 30, Tuskegee 21 Iosia ended the match with a tournament title and the auto- 10 digs. Ashley Forman also had double-double with 25 kills and matic bid to the NCAA Playoffs. double digits in both assists and THE YARD wEEK OF NOVEMBER 15TH 2 MEN’SBASKETBALL STANDINGS Standings Through: November 30, 2011 DIVISION I DIVISION II NAIA MEAC SWAC CIAA SIAC GCAC RRAC CONF ALL CONF ALL DIV ALL CONF ALL CONF ALL CONF ALL W L W L W L W L NOrTh W L W L W L W L W L W L NOrTh W L W L Norfolk State 0 0 4 1 Alabama A&M 0 0 2 2 Bowie State 0 0 3 1 Paine 3 0 3 1 Tougaloo 0 0 6 3 Texas Wesleyan 1 0 4 1 NC Central 0 0 4 3 Southern 0 0 2 4 Elizabeth City St. 0 0 3 1 Benedict 2 0 3 0 Edward Waters 0 0 4 2 Our Lady of the Lake 1 0 4 3 SC State 0 0 4 3 Prairie View 0 0 2 6 Lincoln (Pa) 0 0 4 3 LeMoyne-Owen 1 0 1 1 Xavier 0 0 4 2 LSU-Shreveport 1 0 3 3 NC A&T 0 0 4 4 UAPB 0 0 1 4 Virginia Union 0 0 4 3 Morehouse 1 0 1 2 Fisk 0 0 2 4 St. Thomas 1 0 3 3 Delaware State 0 0 3 3 Miss. Valley State 0 0 1 5 Chowan 0 0 2 4 Stillman 1 1 3 1 Philander Smith 0 0 2 5 Langston 1 0 1 6 Hampton 0 0 3 3 Texas Southern 0 0 1 5 Virginia State 0 0 1 6 Clark Atlanta 1 1 1 5 SUNO 0 0 1 3 Texas College 1 1 5 3 Howard 0 0 2 4 Jackson State 0 0 1 7 Claflin 1 2 1 3 Dillard 0 0 0 7 SW Assemblies 0 0 6 0 Bethune-Cookman 0 0 2 5 Alabama State 0 0 0 5 DIV ALL Albany State 0 0 0 1 Talladega 0 0 0 7 Paul Quinn 0 0 1 3 Savannah State 0 0 2 5 Alcorn State 0 0 0 5 SOuTh W L W L Ft. Valley State 0 0 0 1 Bacone 0 0 1 4 Coppin State 0 0 1 4 Grambling State 0 0 0 5 WSSU 0 0 4 0 Miles 0 0 0 1 Southwest 0 1 2 2 MD-Eastern Shore 0 0 1 6 Livingstone 0 0 3 0 Tuskegee 0 1 0 1 Jarvis Christian 0 1 1 2 Florida A&M 0 0 0 6 Shaw 0 0 4 1 Lane 0 2 0 4 Huston-Tillotson 0 1 0 3 Morgan State 0 0 0 7 J. C. Smith 0 0 2 2 Kentucky State 0 3 0 3 Wiley 0 2 3 3 St. Augustine’s 0 0 2 3 Fayetteville State 0 0 1 3 Six Eagles record Lions hold of Bulldogs, 74-72 double-figures as MILwAUKEE—Denzel Mooney missed just four shots from the floor and finished with NCCU win’s fifth a game-24 points to earn the Fresh Coast Classic Most Valuable Player award on Sat- straight home game urday night as the Lincoln University men’s DURhAM, NC—Tuesday night inside basketball team stunned NCAA Division McDougald-McLendon Gym, the Eagles of II ninth ranked and tournament defending North Carolina Central University used a champions Bowie State, 74-72, at Wisconsin complete—team effort with six student-ath- Lutheran College. letes scoring in double figures to roll past a “We came here with a purpose,” Mooney feisty Southern Wesleyan University 94-60, said. “In order to be the champion, you want earning their third straight win on the sea- to go through the champion and we did that.