Wichita Eagle: State Colleges

Friends women beat Southwestern again

Jeffrey Lutz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:25 CST

There was no timeout to call, no chance to be creative, so the Friends' women's basketball team made it easy during the final seconds against Southwestern on Thursday.

The Falcons quickly organized before an in-bounds play with 11.4 seconds to go, and what they came up with could hardly be described as a novel concept.

It was the best option, though. Sarah Munds cut to the basket, drawing a foul as she converted the tying basket. Her free throw gave Friends the lead and eventually a 75-74 win.

Hutchinson’s Patterson signs with Tennessee Volunteers

TONY ADAME — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:16 CST

The nation’s top junior-college wide receiver is headed to the SEC.

Hutchinson Community College wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson, a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, signed a letter of intent with Tennessee on Wednesday morning, choosing the Volunteers over LSU, Georgia and Mississippi on college football’s national signing day.

Patterson followed his signing with a news conference at Hutchinson Community College.

Today’s Kansas small-college football signings (8 p.m.)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:16 CST

Return to Kansas.com throughout the day as we update small-college football signing classes. Hop over to blogs.varsitykansas.com to catch the latest high school signings.

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Friends women look to start another hot streak

LIONEL TIPTON — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:49 CST

Picked a distant fourth in Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason basketball poll, the Friends women proceeded to go out and thumb their noses at the ranking,

The Falcons opened league play with eight consecutive victories, taking the KCAC lead and entering the NAIA poll at No. 20, then up to 15th the next week.

Among those victories were a 60-50 triumph at Kansas Wesleyan and an 86-76 victory in Garvey Gym over Southwestern, teams picked 1-2 in the preseason.

Newman winning with balanced attack

TAYLOR ELDRIDGE — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:36 CST

A glance upward at the scoreboard in Fugate Gymnasium showed the Newman men’s basketball team ahead by 12 points with under one minute remaining on Monday night.

Maybe in another season coach Mark Potter would feel at ease with that lead.

“It’s made me a nervous wreck,” Potter said. “We were up by nine with 1:40 left on the road last week and we ended up in overtime, so I wasn’t relaxed. My heart was still racing.”

State College Men (Jan. 8)

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:18 CST

State College Men

Tabor 75, Bethel 57

BETHEL: Wright 5, Regier 2, Griffin 14, Regehr 2, Ronnebaum 8, Whitaker 8, Sadeghi 3, Benton 5, Baldia 10. Totals 18-46 19-30 57.

Newman says women's basketball coach Jaime Green violated NCAA recruiting rules

TONY ADAME — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:18 CST

Recruiting violations with two Division I transfers have led to punishment for Newman women's basketball coach Jaime Green by the university and a report to the NCAA.

Green used a player's credit-card information to pay parking fines for Marshay White at Central Florida and Kellindra Zackery at South Carolina in June 2010 in order to get their transcripts released to Newman, an NCAA Division II school.

According to the player, who has since transferred, Green approached her because the coach paying the fines would be a violation of NCAA rules.

Hutchinson's Patterson rewrote record books

Brad Hallier — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:05 CST

HUTCHINSON — Way back in 1970, Lonnie Crittendon set the standard for all Hutchinson Community College wide receivers.

To put that in perspective, when Crittendon wrapped up his HCC career in 1970, the Kansas City Chiefs were the reigning Super Bowl champions and the NFL merger was making its debut.

When Crittendon left Hutchinson, he surely didn't think his records of 81 career receptions for 1,747 yards would last through the Cold War, 10 Summer Olympics and seven more presidents.

Newman suspends two women's basketball players following drug arrests

TONY ADAME — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:10 CST

Two Newman University women's basketball players have been suspended after their drug arrests earlier this month.

According to a Sedgwick County daily booking report, Kellindra Zackery and Alex Adekunle were both arrested Dec. 7 on suspicion of unlawful cultivation or distribution of a controlled substance — Zackery on four counts and Adekunle on three. Zackery was also arrested the next day for driving on a suspended license.

Gorillas back home after run to D2 title

TONY ADAMe — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:04 CST

At the beginning of the season, there were just a handful of players thinking like Pittsburg State sophomore linebacker Nate Dreiling.

With each win during the regular season, there were converts.

And by the time the NCAA Division II playoffs started last month, everyone in the Gorillas' locker room was on the same page.

Potter, Newman have special bond

TONY ADAME — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:16 CST

The Newman men's basketball program, dormant for almost a decade, had turned to one of its own in Mark Potter.

It was 1998 and Potter, then the boys coach at South, had just lost a heartbreaker to Heights in the Class 6A tournament. He broke the news to his team afterward that he would be headed to the college ranks _ back to the school where he'd been a two-sport star in baseball and basketball in the mid-1980s. It was a secret he'd kept since the Titans had won sub-state one week earlier.

After his announcement, Potter stayed to watch the championship game in order to start scouting players for his new team.

Pittsburg State wins D-II football national championship

GREGG DEWALT — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:30 CST

FLORENCE, Ala. — For two years Zac Dickey heard the critics, heard the doubters around Pittsburg.

That’s what happens when you are the hometown kid playing quarterback for a hometown team that isn’t living up to expectations with five- and six-win seasons.

On Saturday, Dickey and his Pittsburg State teammates silenced the doubters and returned the Division II national championship to the school for the first time in 20 years, topping Wayne State (Mich.) 35-21.

Tony Adame: The legend of Nate Dreiling/The legend of the Pitt State Gorillas

Tony Adame — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:30 CST

PHOTO FROM TEAMKONG.NET Today, in Florence, Ala., Nate Dreiling took his place among the greatest players in NCAA Division II history.

Pitt State’s sophomore linebacker and the MIAA defensive player of the year had 15 tackles and blocked a punt in the Gorillas’ 35-21 win over Wayne State for their first NCAA D2 title since 1991. Chuck Broyles told me an interesting story about Dreiling’s recruitment for a story in today’s Eagle, and I’m not sure what else I can say about the 6-foot-4, 228-pound Hutchinson High product that hasn’t already been said. His ability to lead on and off the field is unparalleled.

So let’s talk about the future.

Pitt State run sparks memories for Broyles

TONY ADAME — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:04 CST

There they were, Chuck Broyles and the kid.

It was 1990, and Broyles had just taken over the Pittsburg State football program from Dennis Franchione.

Besides Broyles, one coach remained off Franchione's staff — a graduate assistant named Tim Beck who had just finished playing for the Gorillas a couple of years earlier.

Simoneau, Dreiling honored

Associated Press — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:05 CST

Washburn quarterback Dane Simoneau and Pittsburg State linebacker Nate Dreiling were both chosen to The Associated Press Little All-America team.

The Little All-America team honors players from NCAA Divisions II and III, and NAIA.

Simoneau passed for 4,089 yards and 38 touchdowns, leading Washburn to a 10-3 season and a spot in the NCAA Division II playoffs.

Pittsburg State defense dominant

JEFFREY LUTZ — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:35 CST

Delta State quarterback Micah Davis walked into the news conference Saturday after being beaten by Pittsburg State in the Division II football semifinals and sat down behind a table with a frown.

Adding to his downtrodden state were bumps, scrapes and bruises across his body. The Gorillas' defense had worn him down emotionally and beaten him up physically.

By the end of the game, which the Gorillas won 49-23 to advance to Saturday's national championship in Florence, Ala., against Wayne State (Mich.), Davis had to be dreading his dropbacks.

State college scores (Dec. 11)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:20 CST

State College Men

Newman 66, William Jewell 56

WILLIAM JEWELL: Mattson 2-4 2-3 7, Deck 1-5 2-4 4, Larson 6-12 10-10 22, Mason 9-15 2-5 21, Uz 0-3 0-0 0, Lewis 0-1 0-0 0, Bell 0-5 0-0 0, Kroeker 0-0 0-0 0, Fredrick 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 18-45 18-24 56.

Pittsburg State will play for title

Jeffrey Lutz — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:29 CST

PITTSBURG — Hope for opponents of the Pittsburg State football team has been only temporary during the Division II playoffs.

The positive feelings for Delta State on Saturday were even more short-lived than of the teams the Gorillas steamrolled the previous two weeks.

With four minutes to go in the first half, Delta State trailed by a point after a blocked punt recovery for a touchdown. By halftime, Pittsburg State had a 22-point lead and was well on its way to a 49-16 victory in the D-II semifinals.

Defense leads Butler to win in bowl game

TONY ADAME — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:04 CST

PITTSBURG — Spit back onto the field after its offense turned the ball over for the sixth time, the Butler Community College defense did not begin to worry that, just maybe, this wasn't their day.

They did not worry that they trailed Trinity Valley 17-14 with just less than nine minutes left in the Citizens Bank Bowl at Carnie Smith Stadium, the same spot where they'd lost the national-title game one year earlier.

Their focus, honed through a season in which they didn't give up a touchdown for a 30-quarter stretch, remained the same as it has always been.

Pitt State in D-II semis

TONY ADAME — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:05 CST

PITTSBURG — Pittsburg State quarterback Zac Dickey does not forget a slight.

"We were picked to finish fifth in our conference," Dickey said. "And now we're one of the top four teams in the country. Picking us there... that burnt me a little bit. Still does, I guess."

In a pouring rain, Pittsburg State defeated Northwest Missouri 41-16 in the NCAA Division II quarterfinals in front of 9,047 fans at Carnie Smith Stadium. Saturday's victory pushed the Gorillas into the national semifinals for the first time since 2004.