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SAU Tech is set to start the 2019-2020 NJCAA Basketball Season as the Rockets take on the Coahoma Tigers on Friday night. The Rocket team did exceptionally well in their inaugural season last year, and they are expected to continue that tradition this year. Today’s Power Tip-Off Classic is on Friday and Saturday on SAU Tech’s campus. Today’s Power is …
By Joel Gray It is done. The squeaking of rubber soles upon waxed hardwood has waned. There is no swishing of the net, no ringing of the rim. The officials’ whistles are silent. And the cross-court cries of the coaches are but mere echoes in empty arenas, where the bounding of the ball no longer reverberates. The 2018-19 inaugural season …
by Joel Gray Camden, AR—In their final games of the 2018-19 basketball season, the SAU Tech women and men continued their nearly-inconceivable accomplishment—winning in their first seasons on the basketball court. On Thursday (2/28) the victories came over fellow Region 2 Conference member, National Park College from Hot Springs, AR, whom both Rockets squads had defeated in their earlier matchups …
By Joel Gray West Memphis, AR—After Tuesday’s (2/19) non-conference road loss, at Poplar Bluff, MO, to Division-I Three Rivers College, 96-80—to split the series with the Raiders—Coach Marty Levinson’s 17-10 Rockets traveled again on Saturday (2/23) for their pivotal league rematch with the 20-7 Arkansas State-MidSouth Greyhounds. The Greyhounds have been in-and-out of the NJCAA Top Twenty all season, and …
By Joel Gray Harrison, AR—SAU Tech traveled to North Arkansas on Saturday (2/16) for a much-anticipated rematch with the Pioneers, after falling to them at home just fifteen days earlier when the Lady Rockets lost a hard-fought, back-and-forth game with the #6 Lady Pioneers, 64-58, and the Rocket Men came up short to the NorthArk men in an even closer …
By Joel Gray Camden, AR—SAU Tech’s women and men took to the hardwood of Shaddock Fieldhouse on Saturday (2/9) for their non-conference return games with the Division-I Arkansas Baptist College Buffaloes. Earlier in the season, both Rockets squads had picked up wins against ABC—on the road, in Little Rock. On that January day, the Lady Rockets had dominated the Lady …
By Joel Gray Camden, AR—Coach Andre Williams’ first-year 9-4 Lady Rockets faced their most important challenge of the season on Friday (2/1), and they ennobled themselves in the eyes of all onlookers by going toe-to-toe, for four full quarters, with the #6 team in the nation, the 17-4 North Arkansas College Lady Pioneers, falling just short of the upset, 64-58. …
by Joel Gray On Friday night, Feb. 1, the SAU Tech Rockets will host their most important basketball games of the 2018-19 season, so far, when the North Arkansas College Pioneers come to Camden for the first-ever Region 2 Conference contest between the two schools. The Lady Pioneers finished last season as the #8 team in the nation. This year …
by Joel Gray Camden, AR—In a rare break from brutal scheduling, Head Coach Marty Levinson’s 12-8 SAU Tech men played host to 20-10 Mid-South Prep out of Memphis, TN on Saturday night (1/26), and the results could not have been more welcome for the home team. The Rockets soared to a highly- satisfying victory over the visiting Wildcats, winning by …
Men’s game recap by Joel Gray Clarksdale, MS—The 12-7 SAU Tech Rockets’ road-trip rematch with the 5-10 Tigers of Coahoma Community College resulted in the end of their 6-game winning streak and a series split with the Division-I Mississippi junior college opponent. The first-year Division-II Tech team from East Camden, AR had opened the season (back on 11/2) by defeating …
