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BCU’s Robert Way Named MEAC Defensive Player Of The Week; Team Faces NC A&T
Alcorn Stays On Top; Tuskegee Remains #1 After Week 6
NORFOLK, Va. – Bethune- Cookman linebacker Robert Way has been named as this week’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Defen- sive Player of the Week, an- nounced Monday by the MEAC Office in Norfolk, Vir- ginia.
Way, a redshirt senior from Belle Glade, Florida, transferred into the Bethune- Cookman program prior to the 2014 season after spend- ing time at Marshall.
Against South Carolina State, Robert Way sparked the Bethune-Cookman de- fense in yet another come- from-behind win for the Wildcats over the Bulldogs in a game televised on ESPNU in Thursday night football. Way supplied a team-high 13 tack- les, four by way of primary stops, adding a tackle for loss.
Robert Way from Belle Glade, FL was named Defensive Player of the Week.
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He also deflected a pass over the middle, and forced a fum-
travels to North Carolina A&T on Saturday, Oct. 17, for a game at Aggie Sta- dium set for 1 p.m.
ble.
Bethune-Cookman
Alcorn’s Arnold Walker Tuskegee’s Desmond Reece runs for a score. catches a pass for a
score.
HARTLY, DE – Despite having the week off, Alcorn State University maintained its top position in the HSRN Division 1 Poll, while Tuskegee University regained sole pos- session of first place in HSRN's Division II/NAIA Poll following six full weeks of HBCU football action. Division I/FCS
North Carolina A&T moved closer to the top with a 27-3 win over Norfolk State to com- plete a sweep of MEAC Tide- water schools. The Aggies defeated Hampton, 45-31 last week. Tuskegee's bounced back from its first loss of the season to defeat Morehouse, 35-7, in Columbus, Georgia giving them sole possession of the #1 spot in HSRN's Divi- sionII/NAIA Poll.
Just three points separate the Aggies and Braves with Bethune-Cookman lurking in third place following its Thurs- day night win over #6 South Carolina State. Grambling and Southern round out the Divi- sion I/FCS top five.
Division II/NAIA
Tuskegee's picked off five passes, tying a school record, to win the 80th Morehouse- Skegee Classic. Virginia Union overcame six turnovers to score 50 straight points spoil- ing homecoming for Lincoln (PA), 66-27. Bowie State cele- brated homecoming with a key CIAA Northern Division win over #5 Chowan, 17-14. Vir- ginia State edged Elizabeth City State, 24-23 to move into fourth place.
FAMU Faces Deleware State For Homecoming Game Saturday
A week of activities is going on on ‘The Hill’ as FAMU is celebrating Homecoming. To cap off the week of events the school’s 0-6 football team hopes to get its first win of the season.
Last Saturday’s game was the closest the Rattlers came to getting the team’s first win of the season, but the team’s coach Alex Wood said the team didn’t finish. FAMU was outscored 10-0 in the fourth quarter, after the team scored 24 points through the first three quarters, including 14
Carson Royal is the quarterback for FAMU.
points (a season high) in the second quarter. It was redshirt junior quarterback Carson
Royal’s best game of the sea- son, but it wasn’t enough to get Florida A&M its first win.
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