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Mike Potter ·
28 Nov 2009, 1:00 AM ·
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N.C. Central coach Mose Rison is 14-18 after three seasons, and the future continues to look bright. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
N.C. Central’s football season has been over for nearly a week now, and for the second straight season Mose Rison’s club finished with a 4-7 record.
After a tough start in which the Eagles went 0-6 with road defeats to heavily favored Liberty, Appalachian State and Duke, the third-year head coach had set a goal of winning the last five games to finish 5-6. And because of a road defeat at Old Dominion in the ninth game of the season, it didn’t happen.
But what kind of shape is the NCCU program in right now? Reality says it’s pretty good. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
21 Nov 2009, 7:30 PM ·
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NCCU senior Rashad Fox celebrates after he blocks a pass from Savannah State. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
O’KELLY-RIDDICK STADIUM/DURHAM It’s the season football finale at N.C. Central, and so far the whole campaign has been a mixed bag.
NCCU went 0-6 through an extremely tough first “half” of the schedule, in which the Eagles dropped a pair of very winnable games in overtime.
Coach Mose Rison at that point set a goal of winning the last five in a row. Old Dominion derailed that idea two weeks ago, but now the idea is to win four of the last five and match last season’s 4-7 finish.
The opponent is Savannah State (2-7), which is reeling with a couple of losses to teams below the Division I level. NCCU has beaten the Tigers the past two seasons, including the season-ender in Durham last year.
The home team is a solid favorite today on Senior Day, and responds with a 35-14 victory. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
17 Oct 2009, 5:42 PM ·
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O’KELLY-RIDDICK STADIUM/DURHAM N.C. Central wasn’t expecting a tough challenge when the game was scheduled.
It’s one of those “guarantee” games that the home team is supposed to win.
But when NCCU scheduled Central Methodist of Fayette, Mo., for the first and perhaps the only “Battle of the Central Eagles” nobody knew what kind of team CMU would have.
Alan Dykens’ club, a member of the Heart of America Athletic Conference, comes in 5-1, ranked No. 20 in the NAIA national poll and having one of the best seasons in school history. NCCU is 0-6 including three excruciatingly close losses.
With the losing streak and the home fans unfamiliar with the opposition, there’s not a big crowd in the house at kickoff on a chilly afternoon many might call a “perfect day for football.” It’s a breast cancer awareness day and the officials are throwing - you guessed it - fuschia pink flags.
And it does turn out to be an almost perfect day for NCCU, which scores on its first seven possessions and dominates every facet in a 52-7 victory. The home Eagles finish with 361 yards’ total offense to the visitors’ 93, get two special-teams touchdowns and a turnover margin of 4-0.
NCCU gets on the board on its first possession after a CMU punt. The hosts go 62 yards in 10 plays, with Frankie Cardelle booting a convincing 41-yard field goal at the 6:49 mark of the period.
Soon after that NCCU gets another break when Calvin Hillie, who had two takeaways at Appalachian State last week, picks off a Bryant Jackson pass at the CMU 28. Five plays later Tim Shankle takes it in from six yards out. Following that is a trick play, in which Cardelle takes a lateral from holder Nickolas Hahula and runs left before heaving an ugly but effective pass to Saeed Abdul-Azeez in the end zone, making it 11-0 at 3:24.
And the next time the home team gets the ball, lightning strikes. Michael Johnson (pictured) hits Andrew Johnson in stride up the middle for a 59-yard touchdown, with Cardelle’s kick making it 18-0 with 1:53 left in the first. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
10 Oct 2009, 11:29 PM ·
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At least this part of N.C. Central’s football schedule is over.
For the third time this season the Eagles (0-6) went into a road game they had a snowball’s chance in a blast furnace of winning, and for the third time they left a stadium having earned some respect.
In the end Appalachian State (3-2) which has had the nation’s best program in Division I’s Football Championship Subdivision for the past few years was just too good.
Devon Moore rushed for 124 yards and two touchdowns while Armanti Edwards rushed for two touchdowns and passed for another as the Mountaineers rolled the Eagles 55-21 at ASU’s sold-out homecoming game at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone.
Still the Eagles scored some meaningful touchdowns, both of them following takeaways by junior linebacker Calvin Hillie (pictured), and led 14-7 after the first quarter.
Moore started the scoring with a 73-yard touchdown run.
But Hillie helped set up the tying score by returning an interception of an Edwards pass 35 yards to the ASU 11, with Tim Shankle going in from two yards out two plays later. The pickoff marked the first time Edwards, who won the Walter Payton Award as the top player in the FCS last season, had been intercepted this season.
Hillie then put a scare into the stadium on the Mountaineers’ next snap, recovering a fumble at the ASU 24 to set up Michael Johnson’s two-yard scoring pass to Earthan Ward.
But the rest of the day belonged to the home team, which led 24-14 at halftime.
NCCU’s other touchdown was a 44-yard pass from Johnson to Andrew Johnson to make it 34-21 early in the fourth quarter before the home team pulled away.
ASU finished with 644 yards total offense, the most ever in a single game against NCCU.
Derek Harvey led the Eagles’ defense with a career-high 11 tackles.
The Eagles, who previously led Liberty 10-7 at halftime and trailed Duke 21-14 late in the second quarter, return home on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. to face Central Methodist (5-1), which is ranked No. 25 in the NAIA coaches’ poll.
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