For the Week of May 7 - 13, 2013

PGA Minority Golf Championship tees off

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- The 2013 PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship field has been announced, and currently features more than 200 participants, who will compete this week (May 10-12) at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The 54-hole, stroke-play event will consist of four team divisions NCAA Mens Division I, II and NAIA as well as a Womens Division. In addition to the team competition, the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship features a men's and women's Individual Invitational that is open to collegiate golfers who are African-American, Hispanic-American, Native or Alaskan American, Asian or Pacific Island American. Four division champions will look to defend their titles in the 27th edition of this National Championship. Justin Watkins from the University of Central Oklahoma (Men's Individual), the University of Texas-Pan American (Division I Men's), Bethune-Cookman (Women's Division) and Fayettville State (Division II Men's) will all return to PGA Golf Club in 2013. Bethune-Cookman women's team will be seeing its championship-record ninth title and Fayetteville State its eighth division crown. Ariel McNair of Xavier University, the Women's Independent Division champion in 2012, will not participate in this year's Championship. In addition, there was no NAIA competition held in 2012. Brown Capital Management will mark its third year as the presenting sponsor of the Championship. They will also remain the presenting sponsor of the Championship's one-hour Golf Channel highlight show scheduled to debut Wednesday, July 3 at 9:00 p.m. ET. The Business of Golf Career Expo, which remains a staple of the Championship, features golf industry associations and companies that enable student-athletes to learn about additional employment opportunities in manufacturing, media, trade, golf course management and the game's premier governing bodies, will take cipient of the 1999 PGA Distinguished Service Award. The founders' goal was to provide a national stage for players from minority colleges and universities after being denied opportunities to compete in NCAA Collegiate golf events. The inaugural Championship was conducted in the spring of 1987 at Highland Park Golf Course in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1998, PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla., has been host to the Championship, and in 2006, The PGA of America was granted complete ownership and management of the Championship by the National Minority College Golf Scholarship Fund. In 1990, a Career Fair was conducted for the first time in conjunction with the national Championship to provide corporate sponsors the opportunity to interview and recruit outstanding college students for future employment. As a result, the Career Fair has developed into an invaluable resource to assist students in gaining internships and full-time positions within the golf industry. In 2008, the Championship featured a record number of participants, with nearly 200 students from 47 schools, with representatives from 14 countries. In 2011, The PGA of America announced that Brown Capital Management, an investment management firm based in Baltimore, Md., had become the presenting sponsor of the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship and the one-hour Golf Channel Highlight Show.

B-CU Sports Photo

TIME TO TEE IT UP

CHAMPS RETURN: Asst. Coach Cy McClairen (c.) appears with members of Bethune-Cookman's 2012 women's NMGC champs.

SOUTHERN'S BANKS EXTENDED; MINORITY GOLF EVENT TEES OFF; SPRING SPORTS ROUND-UP

UNDER THE BANNER

WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS

SOUTHERN'S BANKS GETS NEW CONTRACT:

The Southern University System Board of Supervisors has approved a contract extension for head men's basketball coach Roman Banks. Banks took over the program two years ago and his current contract was set to expire after the 2013-14 season. Now he has a new five-year Banks deal that will pay him $165,000 in base salary. He could make more than $200,000 by meeting performance-based incentives included in the new contract. Banks made a base salary of $115,000 in his first two seasons as head coach. The extension comes on the heels of Banks leading Southern to its first NCAA tournament in seven years and a scare of No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the first round. Banks was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference's cocoach of the year after the Jaguars posted a 23-10 overall mark, finished second in the SWACs regular season and won the SWAC tournament title. In addition, the former Northwestern State point guard has helped rid Southern of the APR issues he inherited two years ago. "He is a tremendous ambassador of Southern University," Athletic Director Will Broussard told The Advocate newspaper. Broussard said the new deal puts Banks behind only Texas Southern head coach Mike Davis on the list of the SWAC's highest-paid basketball coaches

place again in 2013. The PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship presented by Brown Capital Management originated in November 1986 following the Jackson State University Golf Tournament and has elevated golf in minority colleges and universities by providing opportunities to more players to compete in a national championship. The 1986 organizational meeting brought together a significant group of founders: the late Dr. Herschel Cochrane; Dr. Joe D. Saunders of the National Negro Golf Association; Jackson State University Golf Coach Eddie Payton; Rose Harper-Elder of the Sports Management Institute; and William (Bill) Dickey, founder of the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association and re-

Participants struggle in Div. II Golf Championships

Independent Bluefield State was in the top ten while CIAA champion Virginia State was in last place midway thru the second round of the three-day NCAA Div. II Atlantic East Region Golf Championships in Wheeling, West Virginia. Bluefield State shot +38 in the first round and was tied for tenth but had yet to tee off in Tuesday's second round at press time. VSU was at +79 and trailed the 20-team field midway thru its second round Tuesday. Amongst individual golfers, BSC's Nick Dent shot +7, 78 in the first round and was tied for 17th. Teammate Jeff McGraw was another shot back at +8, 79. Their second round began Tuesday afternoon. VSU's Preston Fields was playing the best of five Trojans at +16, tied for 72nd thru 15 holes of Tuesday's second round.

Spring Sports Round-Up

The Hampton University men's and women's track and field teams swept the 2013 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Outdoor Track and Field Championship at the Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T this weekend. The Hampton Lady Pirates tallied 123 points to win their tenth MEAC Women's Outdoor title. Maryland Eastern Shore followed in second place with 119 points and Florida A&M finished third with 104 points. Ranita Mealer of Morgan State and Kiara Howell of Norfolk State scored 20 points each to earn the Co-Outstanding Field Athlete award while Petra Kubesova from Maryland Eastern Shore was named the Womens Outstanding Track and Field Runner. Hampton head coach Maurice Pierce, who took over the men's program this year, was named the Outstanding Coach for both the men and women programs. Pierce has earned the women's Outstanding Coach of the Year honor nine times and earned the honor for the first time this year on the men's side. Kubesova of UMES, the 2013 MEAC Indoor Track and Field Outstanding Runner, continued her record setting year by breaking records in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 10:55.02 and the 5000m in 17:15.04. Kubesoav replaced Kadian Dunkley of Bethune-Cookman in the 3000m Steeplechase (11:06.99) who broke the record last year. She also replaced former UMES student-athlete Merrecia James in the 5000m who held the previous record of 17:41.41 in 2007. In men's action, the Hampton Pirates tallied 119 points to earn their first MEAC Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship since sharing the title with Florida A&M in 2004. The last time the Pirates won the title outright was in 2003. The seven-time defending MEAC champion Norfolk State Spartans finished second with 92.50 points followed by Bethune-Cookman in third with 64 points. Dillon Simon of UMES recorded 18 points in the field events and was named Outstanding Field Athlete. Florida A&Ms Elias Chesire tallied 25 points on the track to earn the Outstanding Runner honors for the second straight year. Chesire was two-tenths of a point from breaking the record in the 3000m steeplechase but held on to capture the gold with a time of 9:21.12. He also finished first in the 5000m (14:51.84) and finished fourth in the 1500m with a time of 3:59.96.
Womens Team Results 1. Hampton 123, UMES 119, Florida A&M 104, Coppin State 72, Norfolk State 62, B-Cookman 61, Morgan State 53, NC A&T 47, NC Central 41, Howard 25, SC State 15, Delaware State 11, Savannah State 1 Mens Team Results Hampton 119, Norfolk State 92.5, B-Cookman 64, Howard 62.5, NC A&T 62, SC State 57, Florida A&M 56, SC State 47, Delaware State 47, UMES 46, Morgan State 33, Coppin State 32, NC Central 19

Hampton sweeps MEAC Track & Field titles

WSSU FOOTBALL ON CBS SPORTS:

Defending CIAA football champion and NCAA Div. II runner-up Winston-Salem State will kick off CBS Sports Network's schedule of Div. II televised games in the 2013 season. The Rams, who lost to Valdosta State in the Div. II championship game, will host UNCPembroke, who also made the championship field, on Sept. 5. It is the first of a six-game slate of Div. II games to appear on the network. WSSU escaped last years matchup against UNC Pembroke with a 28-23 victory. Seven teams from last years championship field, including two national semifinalists will appear on the schedule. Teams appearing in this year's television package combined for a 102-30 (.773) overall record last season. Division II enters the eighth year of its partnership with CBS Sports Network in 2013, with nearly 25 percent of the division's football-playing members having enjoyed national television exposure over the course of the agreement.
2013 CBS Sports Network Division II Thursday Night Football Schedule Thurs., 9/5 *Winston-Salem State at UNC-Pembroke Thurs., 9/12 *Chadron St. vs. *W. Texas A&M (Cowboys Stad.) Thurs., 9/19 *West Alabama at Florida Tech Thurs., 10/3 *Harding at Southern Arkansas Thurs., 10/17 Findlay at Ohio Dominican Thurs., 10/31 *Shippensburg at *Bloomsburg
*denotes 2012 championship field qualifier

1 Region and will face Gulf South Conference champion Valdosta State (41-10), the top seed on Friday evening 7 p.m. at Blazer Park in Valdosta, GA. One of the top hitting teams in Division II with 67 home runs for the season, Albany State is making its fifth appearance in the Division II Regionals. Regional competition will be held May 10-12. Winners will advance to the super regionals May 17-18. The finals will be held May 23-27 at James I. Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Va., and will be hosted by the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the City of Salem.

KSU'S WILLIAMS TO TRACK HOF:

FRANKFORT, Ky. Former Kentucky State studentathlete Randolph Williams has been selected for induction into the class of 2013 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II Hall of Fame. Williams is a 1978 graduate of Kentucky State. Williams was a two-time NCAA champion in the 400 meter hurdles event during the 1975 and 1976 outdoor track & field seasons. He also earned ten All-American track & field honors in his time at Kentucky State from 1973-1978. He was inducted into the KSU Hall of Fame in 2005. He is currently a 19-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department and a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard where he served on active duty for four years including two tours in the Middle East. He has been a high school coach for over 17 years at Detroit Renaissance and Dearborn Divine Child. The induction ceremony will be Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Pueblo Convention Center; 320 Central Main St.; Pueblo, Co.
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INDIANAPOLIS MEAC champion South Carolina State and SWAC champ Prairie View A&M begin their quest for the NCAA Division I Mens Tennis Championship this week. South Carolina State (14-4), winner of nine of the last ten MEAC titles, will take on the Tennessee Volunteers (22-7) who received the fourth seed overall from the region in the NCAA draw. SCSU will play Friday, May 10 at 2 p.m. at the Barksdale Stadium, in Knoxville TN. Prairie View will travel to Waco, Texas to face 13th-ranked Baylor, Saturday, May 10 at 6 p.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center. PVAM earned an automatic bid by winning the SWAC Championships last weekend in New Orleans. The winner of each site advances to the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex/Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Ill., where the 16 teams will compete for the national championship May 17-21. The event will be hosted by Illinois-Champaign. MEAC women's champion South Carolina State will travel to neighboring North Carolina to take on the Lady Tar Heels of UNC-Chapel Hill who received the No.2 seed in the 64-team draw. Their first round matchup is scheduled for Friday May 10 at 1 p.m. SWAC women's champion Southern, making its ninth overall appearance in the tournament, will open against Texas A&M (21-3) on Saturday, May 11 at noon CT. The match follows a first-round meeting between TCU and North Texas. The winner of each site advances to the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex/Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Ill., where the 16 teams will compete for the national championship May 16-21. The event will be hosted by the University of Illinois.

MEAC, SWAC champs begin Div. I men's and women's tennis playoffs

Alabama State in NCAA East Region women's golf championship

Three teams begin Div. II softball playoffs

INDIANAPOLIS CIAA champion Chowan, SIAC champ Albany State and WVIAC champ West Virginia State are among the 64 teams selected to participate in the NCAA Division II Softball Championship which begins Friday. Chowan enters the tournament as the No. 8 seed in Atlantic 1 Region with a 26-21 overall record, and will take on the host team, California University of Pennsylvania at 1 p.m. Friday in Atlantic 1 Region. The Vulcans, the #1 seed, enter the regional with a 36-4 overall record and received an at-large bid after being the top-ranked team in the region. In the Atlantic 2 Regional in Shippensburg, Pa., #3 seed and WVIAC titelist West Virginia State (41-12) meets #6 Kutztown (29-21) at noon Friday. SIAC Champion Albany State (36-24) is seeded eighth in the South

MONTGOMERY, Ala.SWAC women's golf champion Alabama State will play in the NCAA East Region Championship which is being hosted by Auburn University on May 9-11 at The Auburn University Club in Auburn. It will be the second time in the past three years ASU has advanced to the NCAA Region Championship. The Lady Hornets, led by head coach Gary Grandison, are one of 72 teams that will play in the NCAA Region field with 24 teams competing at each of three sites. The Lady Hornets will enter the East Region as the 24th seed and are one of 11 teams in the region that earned the automatic bid by winning their conference tournament. Eight teams and two individuals from each region will advance to the NCAA Championship finals scheduled for May 21-24 at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga.