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by Joel Gray Clarksdale, MS—Coach Andre Williams’ 8-4 Lady Rockets began their final five-game stretch of the 2018-19 season by facing-off for a rematch with the Division-I Lady Tigers of Coahoma Community College on Thursday night (1/24). The Tigers had been beaten once already by SAU Tech’s women— way back on opening night (11/2), in Camden—and had had a tough …
By Joel Gray The Rockets will be sitting out the 2018-19 post-basketball season as part of the one-year probationary period required for all new entrants into NJCAA athletics. Though SAU Tech’s women’s and men’s teams, as such new entrants, are ineligible for the Region II Conference title, they are not, however, barred from receiving votes from the NJCAA Committee to …
By Joel Gray Hot Springs, AR—The Spa City and the National Park College Nighthawks hosted both the Women’s and Men’s teams from SAU Tech, Thursday (1/17), for a Region 2 Conference “clash on the court,” and the Rockets returned to East Camden with remarkable wins once again. The Ladies prevailed over NPC by the score of 82-56, while the Rocket …
By Joel Gray Following a 71-63 win, on Thurs., 1/10, on the road, against the Division-I Arkansas Baptist College Buffaloes, the SAU Tech Rockets finally got to play in their own division as Region 2 Conference play began on Saturday when the Rocket Men hosted the 10-3 ASU-MidSouth Greyhounds, who have, for consecutive weeks, received votes in the national Top …
by Joel Gray The Lady Rockets of SAU Tech ended their 3-game skid Saturday afternoon in the Health & Physical Education Complex against the Southern University Shreveport Lady Jaguars, bouncing back in a big way by the score of 85-58. The Lady Rockets improved their record to 6-3 on the season, while Shreveport continued winless on the year, falling to …
By Joel Gray Goodman, MS—The NJCAA DIV.-II SAU-Tech Rockets men’s basketball team surged out to an unlikely 4-game winning streak against DIV.-I competition to start their very first season on the court. Now, however, they are in somewhat of a mid-season slump after losing six of their last eight games— all, but one, of those losses coming on the road, …
by Joel Gray Goodman, MS—Frank Branch Coliseum welcomed the SAU Tech Rockets, on Saturday, but the results inside the home of the DIV.-I Holmes Community College Bulldogs were unwelcome to the Rockets. After streaking to an unbelievable 5-0 unbeaten start in this inaugural season of athletics at SAU Tech, a few misfires later, and the Ladies are 5-3, with a …
by Joel Gray Camden, AR—Shaddock Fieldhouse was the happy site of punch and cake and college memorabilia as SAU Tech celebrated its 50th birthday with a homecoming night of basketball. Their guests from Wesson, MS, however—the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Wolves—showed up to shut down the “feel-good” in the fieldhouse. The NJCAA Division-II Rockets, in their inaugural season on the court, …
The SAU Tech Rockets opened up the season with a blast-off turning the once quiet and deserted Shaddock Fieldhouse into an arena of athletic talent as the men and women that make-up the Rocket teams hit the court in high gear. Coach Andre Williams and Assistant Coach for the Lady Rockets, Dr. Juanita Mitchell, showed their ability to work together to …
