| Special teams lend to Mountaineer’s 35-7
loss to EKU |
by Brad Norman
Staff Writer |
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| Josh Brown | Chief Photographer |
| Mountaineer quarterback Richie
Williams (7) is sacked by Eastern Kentucky’s Josue Cineas
(72) during Saturday’s game. Appalachian lost to the
Colonels 35-7 Saturday in Richmond. |
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels have a new coach,
a new quarterback, and a new offense.
Thanks in part to some horrible special teams plays by Appalachian,
the Colonels series with the Mountaineers now has a new streak as
Eastern Kentucky hammered the Mountaineers 35-7 on Saturday, in
Richmond, Ky.
The win enabled the Colonels to claim their first win of the series
since 1991.
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| Athlete graduation rates consistent with student
body |
by Hugh Kellenberger
Staff Writer |
Appalachian State University graduated 60 percent of their student-athletes
from the 1996-97 freshmen class, according to the 2003 NCAA Graduation
Rates Report. The four-year average for student-athletes is 61 percent.
These numbers place ASU in a tie for eighth in
the Southern Conference, with Virginia Military Institute, but third
among other public universities.
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| Despite young team, Mountaineers look forward
to championship opportunity |
by Michael Trivette
Staff Writer |
This season there will be a lot
of new faces joining the women’s soccer team.
“We have good depth, a very good freshmen
recruiting group coming in,” Ben Popoola, who returns to his
seventh season as head coach, said. “One of our weaknesses
in the past is having enough forwards who can score goals.”
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| Club hockey begins first ACHA season, looks to
claim second championship |
by Michael Trivette
Staff Writer |
How can a hockey team with no home ice rink win
a championship?
The Appalachian State University men’s club
hockey team, who travel to Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Charlotte
to practice, won the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference (BRHC) championship
last season.
This season, the men’s hockey club has only one goal in mind:
to win another BRHC championship.
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