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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 ·
20 Nov 2009, 4:39 PM ·
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NCCU, shown here taking the field on Homecoming Day, is hoping to send its five seniors out on a good note in Saturday's season finale against visiting Savannah State. (File photo by Rob Rowe).
N.C. Central’s third football season as a transitional member of NCAA Division I (FCS) will come to an end on Saturday afternoon.
And there’s every indication the Eagles will be able to end it on a high note.
The opponent is Savannah State, playing this season as the only other FCS/HBCU team. Somebody should have minted a trophy.
Mose Rison’s Eagles have won close games over the Tigers the last two seasons, and for the second straight year will play SSU at home in the season finale.
Savannah State has applied for admission to the MEAC, the conference in which NCCU will be playing next season although the Eagles won’t yet be eligible for championships.
SSU’s application may have hit a bump not of its own doing in the fall, when Winston-Salem State reversed course and announced plans to give up the ghost on its move to Division I. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
17 Nov 2009, 9:39 PM ·
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PEARSON CAFETERIA/DURHAM N.C. Central finds itself in exactly the same position it was in a year ago.
The Eagles have a 3-7 record going into Saturday’s football season finale at home against Savannah State (2-8).
In 2008 NCCU was looking to win its third game out of its last four on the season, while this time a victory would be its fourth in the last five.
Mose Rison’s club has had its ups and downs this season, but three days ago the Eagles had their best victory so far this year when they won 18-10 at long-time rival Winston-Salem State.
Particularly since the Eagles, in their third season of NCAA Division I as they transition up from Division II, will be going into the MEAC next season while WSSU is giving up the quest and going back to the CIAA. The Eagles’ other two wins had been very much expected, as they came at home against teams below the Division I level.
“It was a rivalry game, and we finally got a road victory,” said Rison (pictured), whose team hadn’t won on the opposing team’s field since a win at Savannah State in 2007. “We broke the (14-game) streak. We hadn’t won a game on the road in two years and got that monkey off our back. It really gives us momentum. If we can carry a two-game winning streak into the off-season, it will be huge for us going into next season. 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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