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Friday, November 20, 2009

College Sports

Redhawks face No. 1 Salukis on Saturday (11/20/09)
The Southeast Missouri State football team got a big monkey off its back by beating Murray State last week. Now the Redhawks prepare to end their season by hosting one of the nation's true gorillas. Southern Illinois, ranked first and second in the two major Division I-AA polls, makes the short trip from Carbondale for Saturday's 1 p.m. senior day game at Houck Stadium...
Surprising Southeast women face first road test at Missouri State (11/20/09)
A young Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team passed its first major test of the season in a big way. Now the Redhawks (2-0) prepare to be tested on the road for the first time. Southeast plays at two Missouri Valley Conference squads in the next five days, facing Missouri State on Saturday and Indiana State on Tuesday...
Former team burns Nutt's Redhawks in Southeast men's basketball home opener (11/19/09)
Anthony Allison said what happened to the Southeast Missouri State basketball team Wednesday night was simple to explain. Arkansas State threw the first punch, Allison said, and Southeast never recovered. "They just came out more aggressive," said Allison, Southeast's junior college transfer point guard. "They hit us first before we could hit them."...
Southeast roundup: Former VCU player becomes Redhawks assistant (11/19/09)
Southeast hires a women's basketball assistant coach and a volleyball player picks up a postseason award.
Nutt seeks win No. 1 at Southeast vs. his former team Arkansas State (11/18/09)
Human nature might make Dickey Nutt a little emotional tonight as the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team plays its first regular-season home game. Nutt won't guarantee that isn't going to happen when Arkansas State -- where Nutt was employed for more than 20 years -- visits the Show Me Center, but he's not planning on it...
Missouri rolls past OVC's UTM in opener (11/18/09)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Frontcourt scoring was supposed to be Missouri's question mark. In the Tigers' regular-season opener Tuesday night, it was more like an exclamation point. Forward Laurence Bowers came off the bench to score 16 points and Keith Ramsey added a career-high 15 as Missouri rolled to an 83-68 victory over Tennessee-Martin...
Southeast women ambush Southern Mississippi (11/17/09)
John Ishee's young, inexperienced Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team is growing up right before his eyes. And quickly. The Redhawks passed their first major test of the season with flying colors Monday night, upsetting visiting Southern Mississippi 73-63...
Racers coach will not return (11/17/09)
Two days after the Murray State football team lost 49-13 to Southeast Missouri State, Racers athletic director Allen Ward announced coach Matt Griffin will not return for a fifth season. Ward said a search for a replacement would begin immediately. Murray State fell to 3-6 overall and 2-5 in the Ohio Valley Conference with Saturday's loss to the Redhawks. The Racers have compiled an 11-33 record in Griffin's four seasons...
Southeast women face challenge in So. Miss. (11/16/09)
The competition level will increase significantly for the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team tonight as coach John Ishee goes up against his alma mater. Southeast hosts a strong University of Southern Mississippi squad in a 7 p.m. tipoff at the Show Me Center...
Redhawks volleyball fails to make OVC tourney (11/16/09)
The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team fell short of qualifying for the OVC tournament Sunday when Eastern Kentucky grabbed the sixth and final seed with a five-set victory against Eastern Illinois. The victory was the fourth straight for Eastern Kentucky and third in three days. ...
Nutt era begins with a loss (11/15/09)
ST. LOUIS -- The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team displayed the fight and hustle that first-year coach Dickey Nutt has preached during the preseason. But offensive shortcomings and a lack of inside strength conspired to make sure the Redhawks would not usher in the Nutt era with a victory celebration Saturday night...
Redhawks must wait on tournament fate (11/15/09)
The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team ended the regular season Friday night with a five-set loss at Eastern Illinois and lost control of their fate for the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. Southeast could have locked up a berth in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament by finishing no worse than sixth place in the OVC, but the Redhawks suffered a damaging loss, falling 19-25, 25-21, 24-26, 25-14, 13-15...
Redhawks avoid winless OVC season with 49-13 victory vs. Murray State (11/15/09)
The Southeast Missouri State football team shook an eight-game losing streak with an offensive explosion Saturday at Houck Stadium. The Redhawks avoided their first winless OVC season and gave coach Tony Samuel a 54th birthday to remember with a 49-13 victory over the Murray State Racers...
Southeast women top UMSL in opener (11/15/09)
There were still plenty of rough spots, which Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach John Ishee expected. But Ishee came away satisfied with the Redhawks' season opener. Despite committing 29 turnovers, the young, inexperienced Redhawks eased past Division II Missouri-St. Louis 66-53 Friday night at the Show Me Center...
Albany Tech forward joins Southeast's program (11/15/09)
As expected, the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball program has landed a 6-foot-9 power forward for next season. Waylon Jones, a sophomore at Albany Tech Community College in Albany, Ga., signed a national letter of intent during the weeklong early signing period that began Wednesday...
Southeast opens seasons this weekend (11/13/09)
The exhibition tuneups are out of the way. Now it's time for Southeast Missouri State's basketball teams to hit the court for their season openers. Southeast's men officially begin the Dickey Nutt era Saturday at Saint Louis University. Southeast's women begin their fourth year under John Ishee by hosting Division II Missouri-St. Louis tonight...
Redhawks try to avoid 0-8 OVC season vs. Murray St. (11/13/09)
The Southeast Missouri State football program has struggled since moving up to Division I-AA and joining the Ohio Valley Conference in 1991. Southeast has posted just two winning seasons during that span and more often than not finished toward the bottom of the conference...
Southeast men's basketball preview: Changes breathe life into program (11/12/09)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball program has no place to go but up. That's what happens when a team posts a 3-27 record, including an 0-18 Ohio Valley Conference mark, and loses its final 19 games. Southeast experienced all of that last year, but now the Redhawks virtually are starting over with a new coaching staff and 11 new players...
Southeast men's basketball schedule (11/12/09)
NOVEMBER 14 -- at Saint Louis, 7 p.m. 18 -- Arkansas State, 7 p.m. 22 -- at Northern Illinois, 3:30 p.m. 24 -- Eastern Michigan, 7 p.m. 27 -- vs. St. Bonaventure&, 8 p.m. 28 -- at Illinois State&, 6:05 p.m...
Southeast women's basketball preview: Ishee turns to youth to reload roster (11/12/09)
John Ishee's first two years as the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach featured two Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championships, one OVC tournament title and one NCAA tournament berth. The Redhawks dipped to a 15-15 record and fifth-place OVC finish last season as they failed to reach the conference tournament semifinals for the first time in seven years...
Ishee signs guard/forward who averages 32.4 points (11/12/09)
The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball program landed one of the state's top players Wednesday as the NCAA's weeklong early signing period got under way. Brooke Taylor, a 6-foot-1 senior guard/forward at Bismarck (Mo.) High School, signed a national letter of intent with the Redhawks...
Redhawks look sharp in final men's basketball exhibition (11/11/09)
First-year Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Dickey Nutt is not about to declare his rebuilding team a prime contender in the Ohio Valley Conference. But Nutt felt good about the way the Redhawks improved in most areas during Tuesday's 81-59 rout of visiting Ouachita Baptist in their final exhibition game...
Murray State snaps Redhawks' four-match streak (11/11/09)
The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team had its four-match winning streak snapped Tuesday night. Murray State beat the Redhawks 28-30, 33-31, 25-19, 25-19 in Murray, Ky. Southeast fell to 13-16 overall and 8-9 in Ohio Valley Conference play. Murray is 11-16 and 10-6...
Southeast women drop exhibition contest (11/10/09)
Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach John Ishee expects his young, inexperienced team to have its share of growing pains. Hot-shooting Christian Brothers University made Monday night's exhibition game at the Show Me Center a painful proposition for the Redhawks...
Redhawks conclude exhibition schedule tonight (11/10/09)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team closes out its two-game exhibition schedule tonight against Division II Ouachita Baptist. After today, the games begin to count as Southeast opens its season Saturday at Saint Louis University. "We just want to try to keep getting better," first-year Southeast coach Dickey Nutt said of the objective for the exhibition finale...
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