Football

CIAA Football Week in Review
For the week ending October 28, 2007 (Week 10)  
  
PANTHERS TAKE LEAD IN EAST; BEARS HOLD SERVE IN WEST

ETTRICK, VA- Lamar Little accounted for six touchdowns and 260 yards of total offense as the Virginia Union Panthers improved to 8-1 and kept their CIAA title hopes alive with a decisive 42-27 win over longtime rival Virginia State.

Little scored on a six-yard run and threw touchdown passes of 8 and 70 yards to Steven Miller (4 receptions, 118 yards) as the Panthers, who came into the game ranked sixth in the Southeast Region,  opened up a 21-0 first quarter lead on the Trojans.  Little got his third touchdown pass of the day midway through the second quarter when he connected with Terence Cunningham for 16 yards as VUU pushed their lead to 28-0 over the stunned Trojans.

The Trojans, playing in front of a large homecoming crowd, finally got untracked offensively when quarterback Michael Terry finished off a 12-play, 91-yard drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Davian Richards as VSU trailed 28-7 at the half.

Little would toss two more touchdown passes to Phillip Taylor (3 receptions, 86 yards) in the third quarter to extend the Panthers' lead to 42-14. With VUU in control of the game, Little headed to the bench after three quarters of work in favor of backup Michael Henderson.
Terry would hook up two more times with Richards for scores in the fourth quarter as the Trojans made the final margin a more respectable 42-27.  Richards finished the game with a career-high 10 receptions for 122 yards and three touchdowns and Terry threw for 225 yards for the Trojans who fell to 4-5 and 3-3 in the CIAA.
 
With the win, coupled with Elizabeth City's 14-7 loss to Saint Paul's, the Panthers can clinch the Eastern Division title and an appearance in the CIAA Championship game with a win over Fayetteville State in their regular season finale next Saturday in Fayetteville.
 
In other conference action,
BOWIE, MD-Ryne Powell kicked three field goals, including a game winning 25-yarder in the fourth quarter as the Shaw Bears rallied to edge the Bowie State Bulldogs 16-14 yesterday in Bowie, Maryland. 

With the win, Shaw improves to 6-3 overall and 5-1 in the CIAA and can clinch the Western Division title and a berth in the CIAA Championship game next week with a win over cross-town rival Saint Augustine's. Conference Scoreboard

Fayetteville State	31	Johnson C. Smith	21
Saint Augustine's	27	Livingstone	8
Saint Paul's	14	Elizabeth City State	7
Shaw	16	Bowie State	14
Virginia Union	42	Virginia State	27

Standings Upcoming Games:
 

	November
3	Bowie State University	Elizabeth City State University	Elizabeth City, NC	1:00pm
3	Fayetteville State University	Virginia Union University	Fayetteville, NC	1:30pm
3	Johnson C. Smith University	Livingstone College	Salisbury, NC	1:00pm
3	Saint Paul's College	Virginia State University	Petersburg, VA	1:30pm
3	Shaw University	Saint Augustine's College	Raleigh, NC	4:00pm
10	CIAA Football Championship	Memorial Stadium	Charlotte, NC	1:00pm

Notes of Interest:

• To reduce confusion regarding the use of the divisional record, we have removed it from the standings report.
• The Conference record is used to determine standings.
• The Divisional record is used to decide between a conference record tie.

Scenarios for ChampionshipGame Teams:

1. If Shaw wins, Shaw wins theWest.
2. If Shaw loses and FSU wins, FSU wins the West.
3. If VUU wins, VUU wins the East.
4. If VUU loses, and ECSU wins, ECSU wins the East.

Tie-BreakerProcedure

1. Conference Record
2. Divisional Record
3. Head-to-Head Competition
4. Common Conference Opponents
5. CoinToss