BSU SCUTTLEBUTT
Football
Bowie State red shirt freshman Tariq Jones rushed for a season-high 147 yards and the Bulldogs edged Livingstone, 15-10. The win improved the Bulldogs' overall record to 2-1 (1-0 in the CIAA). The loss drops Livingstone to 0-4 overall (0-1 in the CIAA).
Livingstone struck pay dirt first on a 79-yard scoring play. Jones cut the score to 7-6 at the 4:17 mark of the opening quarter, rushing for a 2-yard touchdown.
A 39-yard field goal with 5:01 left in the half gave Livingstone a 10-6 lead. Anthony Green shifted the advantage back to Bowie State with 1:27 remaining when he jumped over a Blue Bears defender in the corner of the end zone and recorded a 6-yard touchdown. Michael Gagne converted the extra point, making the score 13-10 in favor of the Bulldogs at the half.
The Bulldogs picked up two easy points with 9:14 left in the game when a bad center snap sailed over the head of the Livingstone punter. As a result of the safety Bowie State broadened its margin to 15-10.
The Bowie defense played extremely well, holding Livingstone to only three rushing yards on 25 attempts. Alvin Cox and Kyle Jackson led BSU with eight tackles each. Cox also led Bowie State with two sacks for 18 yards. Penalties were nearly detrimental to Bowie State as the Bulldogs were flagged 12 times for 105 yards.
Bowie State will return to North Carolina Saturday, this time traveling to Raleigh to face the Bears of Shaw University. The game will be played at Durham County Stadium with kickoff set for 4 p.m.
Cross country
The BSU men and women certainly offered up some challenges during the Bowie State University Challenge held in Bowie last week.
The Lady Bulldogs took on Columbia Union in a 5k race and placed five of the top seven runners en route to a 19-36 win. The team with the lowest score wins.
Shamika Patton (1) and Michelle Palmer (2) were the top finishers for the Lady Bulldogs with Elaine Rhoads (4), Christina Rowles (5) and Tonya Walton (7) finishing up the win for BSU.
In another 5k match-up, this time against St. Paul's, the BSU women swept the top four spots in their 17-38 win. Patton (1), Palmer (2), Rhoads (3) and Rowles (4) paced the team to the win. Walton finished in seventh place.
Virginia State solved BSU and placed six of the top seven finishers in their 5k race against the Lady Bulldogs. Only Patton (2) managed to crack the top seven places. Palmer, Rhoads, Rowles and Walton placed seventh through 10th, respectively.
In a final 5k race, Bowie State placed second with 42 points behind Virginia State and their 19 points. Columbia Union placed third with 70 points and St. Paul's finished fourth with 79 points.
The men took two of their three 8k races. Thanks in large part to first- and second-place finishes from Daryl Sanders and Damien Montgomery, respectively, the Bulldogs defeated Columbia Union, 24-31. Joseph Philpot (5), Malcolm Womack (7) and Santiato Ennis (8) helped key the win for BSU.
St. Paul's could only manage one runner in the top five finishers against BSU. Sanders (1), Montgomery (3), Philpot (4), Womack (5) and Ennis (7) put the Bulldogs over the top, but against Virginia State the BSU men were just edged out, 30-27.
Sanders (2) was the top finisher for Bowie State. Montgomery, Philpot, Womack and Ennis finished fifth through eighth, respectively.
Volleyball
The Lady Vikings of Elizabeth City State University were a team on a mission and rolled over the Bowie State University Lady Bulldogs, 3-0, in conference volleyball action. ECSU won by scores of 25-17, 25-17, 25-18 while improving their record to 13-6 overall and 8-0 in the CIAA.
Tamira Conner Rogers led Bowie State with 12 kills on the afternoon while teammate Alycia Williams-Chase accounted for nine kills and La Tesha Johnson contributed 12 digs for the Lady Bulldogs.
