22 MSU Football Student Athletes name to SEC Honor Roll
STARKVILLE, Miss. – The Southeastern Conference announced on Friday that 22 members of the 2009 Mississippi State football team were named to the league’s Academic Honor Roll. The total is the second-highest ever achieved by a Bulldog football team, trailing only last year’s 28 honorees. Head coach Dan Mullen’s squad posted its second-highest team grade point average ever during the fall semester,... Read More
MSU finishes 6th on SEC Fall Honor Roll
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State placed a total of 47 student-athletes on the 2009 Southeastern Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll, the league office announced Friday. MSU’s 47 honorees are the sixth-most student-athletes on the list, in sports in which State competes. MState placed 22 football players, 16 women’s soccer athletes, and nine women’s volleyball players on the league list. MSU... Read More
Rebels ranked 17th in USA Today Preseason Baseball poll
OXFORD, Miss. – The preseason rankings continued to come in for the Rebels with Ole Miss finding itself ranked in the third poll of 2010 when the USAToday/ESPN Coaches Poll tabbed the Rebels as the 17th-ranked team in the nation on Friday. Ole Miss is also ranked among the top 25 nationally by both Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America. Four teams from the Southeastern Conference are ranked among... Read More
Hinds baseball signs eight prep athletes
Raymond, Miss – The Hinds Community College baseball program recently added eight student-athletes from metro-area high schools during the first week of the early signing period for the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). The eight student-athletes are Caleb Baucum (Hillcrest Christian School), Carey Taylor and Joseph Veazey (Brandon High School), Jacob Thomas (Vicksburg High School),... Read More
Collin Cargill selected to the NCBWA Preseason Stopper of the Year Watch List
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The pre-season honors continue to roll in for Golden Eagle closer Collin Cargill. Just one day after earning preseason All-Conference USA, he was selected today to the National College Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year watch list. He was also selected a pre-season All-American last month by the NCBWA. The Stopper of the Year award is given annually to the nation’s... Read More
Thomas added to State Farm Wade Watch List
ATLANTA, Ga. – Ole Miss senior guard Bianca Thomas was one of seven players added to the 2009-2010 State Farm Wade Watch list the State Farm Wade Trophy Committee announced Thursday. Thomas joins James Madison’s Dawn Evans, Nebraska’s Kelsey Griffin, Stanford’s Nnemkadi Ogumike, Notre Dame’s Lyndsay Schrader, Tennessee’s Shekinna Stricklen and Duke’s Jasmine.... Read More
Southern Miss Baseball Team earns second Preseason No. 21 Ranking
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The Southern Miss Baseball team picked up their second preseason No. 21 ranking today as Baseball America release their annual preseason poll. The Collegiate Baseball Magazine also selected the Golden Eagles preseason No. 21 last month. The 2010 Baseball America Poll is only the second time in the history of the Magazine that the Golden Eagles received a preseason nod from the... Read More
Baseball America ranks Rebels in Preseason Top 25
OXFORD, Miss. – Ole Miss found itself in the top 25 of yet another preseason poll as Baseball America tabbed the Rebels the 24th-ranked team in the country when the publication released its preseason rankings on Wednesday. It is the second time the Rebels have been ranked in the 2010 preseason as Collegiate Baseball ranked the Rebels 22nd in its preseason poll back in December. Ole Miss is one of... Read More
McInnis Named Preseason C-USA Pitcher of the Year; Cargill All-C-USA
Irving, TEXAS. – Conference USA announced their annual preseason baseball awards today, as voted on by the league’s nine coaches, and two Golden Eagle pitchers took home honors. Redshirt Junior Todd McInnis was named the preseason C-USA Pitcher of the Year and relief pitcher Collin Cargill earned the league’s relief pitcher spot on the preseason All-C-USA team. McInnis was also one of three pitchers... Read More
MSM Feature – Ray Guy
Six Seconds to History By Cary Estes Published in the May/June 2009 Issue “I was never much on hang time until we got Ray. But then we started clocking how long his punts hung up in the air. Sometimes he kept it up there as long as six seconds.” – John Madden, former NFL head coach and television broadcaster Six seconds. That doesn’t seem very long at all. A mere wisp of time. But in... Read More
