February 2006 NewsStand
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February 27, 2006
Sands leads Tulane past SMU
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Jennifer Sands had a great homecoming, scoring 24 points and grabbing 12 rebounds to lead the Green Wave to a 71-58 victory over SMU at Moody Coliseum on Sunday...
Green Wave adjusting to post-Katrina life
New Bern (N.C.) Sun Journal
This season has been anything but routine for anyone involved in Tulane's athletics program. In late August of last year, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the home for the Green Wave...
February 26, 2006
Tulane finds right plan
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The Tulane freshmen duo of Ryan Williams and Daniel Puckett combined for 18 second-half points to lead the Green Wave to a 66-53 victory over East Carolina in a Conference USA game Saturday in Greenville, N.C...
Potential victory on hold for Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane will have to wait a few hours before it gets a chance to even its series with Pepperdine. The 10th-ranked Green Wave, which had won seven consecutive games before losing to No. 16 Pepperdine on Friday night, was leading 9-4 and was three outs away from a victory Saturday when the game at Zephyr Field was suspended because of rain...
Pirates get wiped out by the Green Wave
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
The only drama inside Minges Coliseum on Saturday night came before the opening tip-off. Tulane's hot shooting made sure of it. The Green Wave sank 52 percent of their shots against East Carolina to hand the Pirates a 66-53 loss in men's basketball action in front of 5,310 fans on senior night for three ECU players...
Rouse's home finale ends in defeat to Tulane
Kinston (N.C.) Free Press
East Carolina's shooting touch went AWOL in the second half of its Conference USA game against Tulane on Saturday night. The Pirates hit 8-of-29 field goals in the final 20 minutes, stumbling to a 66-53 loss to the Green Wave in front of a crowd of 5,310 at Minges Coliseum...
Pirates fall in home finale
New Bern (N.C.) Sun Journal
Tulane used a balanced scoring attack to defeat East Carolina 66-53 Saturday night at Minges Coliseum. Three Green Wave players -- led by David Gomez's 15 points -- scored in double figures while Chris Moore finished with nine as Tulane beat the Pirates for the second time this season...
Pirates fall to Green Wave
Washington (N.C.) Daily News
Corey Rouse wrapped up his final home game as Pirate with his traditional double-double, scoring 17 points and grabbing 11 rebounds, but it wasn't enough for East Carolina as they lost 66-53 to Tulane Saturday night. While ECU held its senior night to honor Rouse, Mike Castro and Will O'Neil before the game, it was the Pirates senior moments in the second half that cost them the game...
February 25, 2006
Hurricane blows past Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Nikki Luckhurst and Jami Montagnino combined to score 42 points, but Tulsa shot 50 percent from the field and 62 percent in the second half to clinch the Conference USA regular-season title with a 74-63 victory over the Green Wave on Friday at the Donald W. Reynolds Center...
TU can't deliver against Pepperdine
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's seven-game winning streak hit a speed bump Friday night when the Green Wave stranded 12 runners in a 6-2 loss to 16th-ranked Pepperdine at Zephyr Field. The loss was the Green Wave's first since its season-opening defeat against Texas Christian in the Houston College Classic...
February 24, 2006
Tulane to face ranked Waves
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The Tulane baseball team will put its seven-game winning streak on the line against No. 16 Pepperdine in a three-game series at Zephyr Field. The visiting Waves took two of three from then-second ranked Oregon State last weekend and come in with a record of 6-5 after a 2-0 loss to UCLA on Tuesday...
February 21, 2006
A game between friends?
New Orleans Times-Picayune
In these post-Katrina times, UNO's Tom Walter and Tulane's Rick Jones can't say they haven't thought of the schools' baseball rivalry this season being a little kinder and gentler...
February 20, 2006
Mohl on a roll for Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Right-hander Billy Mohl struck out six and gave up one hit and a walk in seven innings, and Brad Emaus and Jonny Weiss had two hits each as No. 10 Tulane completed a sweep of Penn State with a 9-3 victory Sunday at Zephyr Field...
Tough opening weekend for baseball down south
Penn State Collegian
It's an experience comparable to studying abroad, with lessons learned in new places. This past weekend, Penn State baseball saw its first study session held in New Orleans, La., where geography became the main focus...
February 19, 2006
Morgan in zone for Green Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Sophomore right hander Sean Morgan struck out a career-high 11 and Tulane pounded out a season-best 15 hits in a 12-0 victory over Penn State at Zephyr Field on Saturday...
Memphis in league of its own
New Orleans Times-Picayune
If Tulane was going to hand Memphis its first road loss this season, Green Wave coach Dave Dickerson knew it was going to take huge effort by his team...
Wave undone by a storm of talent, quickness
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Roaring into Fogelman Arena on Saturday night, there came Hurricane Memphis. With enough wind to cause severe burns. No flooding. But with Category 10 quickness...
Tigers make big statement; 26-game mark best all-time
Memphis Commercial Appeal
While highly ranked teams from other leagues have spent the past few weeks notching good wins against good competition, the University of Memphis Tigers have coasted through a depleted and overmatched Conference USA...
February 18, 2006
Tulane's beast a real beauty
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The monster won't defer even to Katrina, and hardly is interested in taking youth into account. No, the beast Rick Jones has created -- a Tulane baseball program that's annually among the country's elite -- is an animal that's used to eating, and eating well. And Jones, in his 13th season, likes nothing better than to feed it...
Conference Fall
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Conference USA basketball, among the best in the nation a few years ago, now rates near the bottom after the defection of some of its top programs and an increased emphasis on football by some of its current members...
Green Wave faces No. 3 Memphis on home court
Associated Press
Third-ranked Memphis and Mardi Gras hit New Orleans on the same weekend. Memphis, on a 12-game winning streak, visits Tulane today in a Conference USA game that coincides with the first big weekend of Mardi Gras...
McFadden, Emaus spark Wave to win
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Sophomore second baseman Brad Emaus and redshirt freshman outfielder Warren McFadden combined for six RBIs, and junior right-hander Brandon Gomes struck out five in six innings as Tulane defeated Penn State 9-4 Friday night at Zephyr Field...
Stockton gets 300th victory
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Coach Lisa Stockton got her 300th career victory as Tulane's women's basketball team defeated Marshall 58-40 Friday night at Fogelman Arena. Marshall entered the game tied for second in Conference USA, but Tulane held the Thundering Herd in check. Tulane (12-10, 6-7 C-USA) forced Marshall (13-11, 8-5) into 23 turnovers and outrebounded the Thundering Herd 41-35...
Herd falls to Tulane, 58-40
Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch
Marshall couldn't overcome a slow start and suffered a 58-40 Conference USA women's basketball loss to Tulane at Folgelman Arena. The loss dropped the Thundering Herd to 13-11 overall and 8-5 in C-USA action. It was a blow to the Herd's chances of securing one of four first-round byes to the C-USA tournament, but the possibility remains...
February 17, 2006
Home is Home
The Sporting News
With the island in my kitchen stuffed with sandwiches and the cooler in the corner overflowing with Bud Lights, I was the host for my fantasy football draft last August 27. One owner not present was my brother Eric, who was in New Orleans. For his last pick, he said into my phone: "Give me Stephen Davis. I gotta go. Katrina's coming"...
February 14, 2006
Storm Troupers
Los Angeles Times
This is what Tulane men's basketball Coach Dave Dickerson screams to his team while a thousand or so fans bellow encouragement in full-throated roar: "You've got heart guys, you've got heart." This is what Dickerson, a thin, earnest man in the middle of the first season of his first major college head-coaching job, says while sitting in an empty gym a day later: "If I'd known what was going to happen would I have taken this job? The answer is easy. No"...
TU short on experience, big on talent
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones knew what he was dealing with before the season started, but he admits it really didn't hit him until Saturday afternoon. "It was the middle of the game (with Texas Tech), and I looked at (pitching coach) Chad (Sutter) and said, 'Can you believe how young we are?' " Jones said...
February 13, 2006
Dickerson accustomed to adversity
The Tulane Hullabaloo
When the men's basketball team takes the court, regardless the opponent, first-year head coach Dave Dickerson is on his feet and going the distance. Bad call or no call, he's been known to step out as far as the three-point line to protest while the game is in progress. Or, when the action transitions up court, Dickerson is waving his hands to hurry his players back on defense, most times causing his Tulane green tie to flank over his shoulder...
February 12, 2006
Tulane tops Longhorns in College Baseball Classic
Houston Chronicle
Going up against seventh-ranked Texas this evening in the second game of the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park, No. 12 Tulane knew that it would be tough to scrap out hits against the Longhorns' pitching staff, so they made sure that every one of them counted...
Knights halt Green Wave winning streak
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's winning streak was snapped at four games Saturday when Central Florida controlled nearly every statistical category en route to a 72-51 Conference USA victory Saturday in Orlando...
Martin, late-inning surge powers Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Reliever Trey Martin tossed four scoreless innings and Brad Emaus and Cat Everett combined for four RBIs in the final three innings Saturday as Tulane rallied to defeat Texas Tech 6-4 in the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park...
Wave soccer transferring emotions
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Normally, this is Tulane soccer coach Betsy Anderson's favorite time of the year. Signing day was last week, and spring practice was scheduled to begin Tuesday. But these are not normal times...
Green Wave rebuilt, reloaded in 2006
The Tulane Hullabaloo
In accord with the city it calls home, Tulane's baseball team will look quite different than it did a year ago. Due to graduation and Major League Baseball, the Green Wave will feature many new faces in key roles. Due to Hurricane Katrina, the team will call Zephyr Field its home in 2006...
Knights press to victory
Orlando Sentinel
When UCF's third consecutive loss at Southern Mississippi dropped it to a game under .500 in Conference USA, Golden Knights Coach Kirk Speraw realized he needed to do something. The Knights had only one day to prepare for visiting Tulane on Saturday, but that was more than enough time for Speraw and his staff to cook up a few surprises for the Green Wave...
February 11, 2006
Tulane edges Texas Tech in College Classic
Houston Chronicle
Good things come to those who wait, and this couldn't have been truer for Tulane who had to wait until the seventh inning before they could get their bats going against Texas Tech in the first game of the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park this afternoon...
Tulane to play five at Dome
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After playing all 11 games on the road last season, Tulane's football team couldn't possibly be placed in a situation that's more difficult. Maybe not, but someone certainly tried. Tulane released its 12-game schedule for 2006 on Friday, and it has the Green Wave seeing a lot of what it saw in 2005 -- playing on the road, and in some tough environments. But the schedule also features something different from last season -- five games at the Superdome...
Defense isn't resting for Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
If first-year Tulane coach Dave Dickerson had his way, his team likely would feature a potent, in-your-face offense and a defense that wouldn't allow opponents to catch their breath...
TCU edges TU in 10th
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Texas Christian University designated hitter Matt McQuirk hit a two-run homer off of Daniel Latham in the top of the 10th inning to lead the Horned Frogs to a 5-3 victory over Tulane in the season opener for both teams Friday in the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park...
Wave women pull away to beat Houston
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Jennifer Sands and Jami Montagnino each had a double-double, and Tulane ended the game on a 15-7 run to defeat Houston 65-54 at Fogelman Arena on Friday night...
February 10, 2006
TULANE: Jones aiming high
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Conventional wisdom says there is no way for Tulane's baseball team to duplicate the success of the 2005 season. After earning its second College World Series appearance in five seasons and winning more games than anyone in college baseball last year, the Green Wave lost a lot. Gone are the solid middle infield, the power-hitting and power pitching, and the strong catching that was the Wave's ticket to Omaha, Neb...
Tulane moves on
Baseball America
Tulane can't wait to take the field this weekend at the Houston Astros College Classic. Like any college team, the players are tired of intrasquad scrimmages and want to face an actual opponent. Yet simply playing baseball games again will mean so much more to the Green Wave...
Home stretch key for TU women
New Orleans Times-Picayune
In Tulane's past two games, Lisa Stockton's team has displayed its youth and its potential. In the first of the two, the Green Wave squandered a 22-point lead and lost. In the second game, on the road, it overcame a 22-point deficit to win in the same manner it lost the first game, with a final shot...
February 9, 2006
Tulane's baseball players return to class -- in Lubbock
Houston Chronicle
Nathan Newman had been on the Tulane campus less than three hours when he received a telephone call telling him to leave New Orleans. Not far away, Mark Hamilton grabbed enough clothes to get through the weekend. Like many others, Hamilton expected Hurricane Katrina to weaken or miss the city completely...
February 8, 2006
TU goes the distance, blows out Wolfpack
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Sitting on a 14-point halftime lead Tuesday night, the one thing Tulane coach Dave Dickerson didn't want to see his team do was coast during the final 20 minutes against Loyola...
February 7, 2006
Green Wave cautious about letting guard down
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After having won three consecutive games and four of its past five, Tulane is going to break away from league action tonight when it plays host to Loyola. But Green Wave coach Dave Dickerson says this is no break. He said his team's approach for the neighboring Wolfpack has to be the same as it has been the past few weeks...
February 6, 2006
Tulane recruits don't waver
ESPN.com
Here's a tip: If you're a college football recruiting junkie, think again before following in lockstep praise over the talent haul of Notre Dame, USC and Florida. Let's see who really develops into the five-star players down the road, anyway. And who couldn't draw impressionable kids to those locales?...
Back to Tulane: Sports teams and evacuees - a game of chicken
US News & World Report blogs
Last night I attended my first Tulane basketball game of the year. It was fun, as always, being close enough to the action to personally offend several of the opposing players, and this time we even got to see a close game, a dominant performance from center Quincy Davis, and a win for the Green Wave...
February 5, 2006
Gomez sparks Wave rout of Marshall
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Putting starting center Quincy Davis on the bench at the start of the second half in foul trouble was a move Tulane coach Dave Dickerson first questioned. Four minutes into the half, Green Wave forward David Gomez made it one of Dickerson's best decisions of the evening...
Late shot sinks Green Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Texas-El Paso's Emily Piekarska sank an eight-foot jump shot in the lane with 12 seconds remaining to give the Miners a 59-58 victory over Tulane in a Conference USA women's game Saturday at Fogelman Arena...
TU players victims of cuts
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When Tulane kicker Jacob Hartgroves went to sleep Dec. 8, nearly two months of tossing and turning and sleepless moments disappeared. That was the day Hartgroves and the rest of the Tulane football team learned that football was not one of eight athletic programs suspended by the university because of budget cuts after Hurricane Katrina...
Ice-cold Marshall hits new low
Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch
Marshall never found its shooting touch and the result was the Thundering Herd's lowest scoring game in nearly 60 years, a 61-36 Conference USA defeat to Tulane on Saturday night in Fogelman Arena. Poor shot selection and ineffective shooting plagued Marshall throughout, especially during a nearly 10-minute scoring drought in the second half...
February 4, 2006
Davis hitting stride for Tulane
New Orleans Times-Picayune
It has taken more than half the season, but Tulane center Quincy Davis has finally arrived. Davis, the player expected to be the team's leader on and off the court, has played the past couple of games the way first-year coach Dave Dickerson had anticipated at the start of the season...
Sands makes big impression
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Jennifer Sands is not a typical college post player. Sands could be mistaken for a power hitting softball player instead of a standout on the hardcourt. Sands' biggest asset is her size, and she isn't shy about throwing that weight around -- all 215 pounds...
February 3, 2006
Tulane enters season of adjustment
Shreveport (La.) Times
Much like the city it calls home, the Tulane baseball team looks quite different than it did eight months ago. At that point, a veteran Green Wave team was playing on college baseball's biggest stage and New Orleans was the same rustic, charming home of Mardi Gras that it always was...
New faces, field force Tulane to alter style
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate
Tulane's baseball team is less experienced and rated lower in the preseason than last year's team. Combine that with a different home ballpark, and all that might lead to a change in style of play. Four of the top hitters from last year's College World Series team, including top run producer Micah Owings, are gone. The Green Wave, the No. 1 team in Baseball America's preseason poll last season, is No. 12 this year...
Loyalty - Ashley Langford refused to run from disaster
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot News
As the plane approached Louis Armstrong International, Ashley Langford finally could see what she already knew. There before Langford was everything she and her teammates had talked about during their 15-week exile to Texas Tech, where they first had been displaced before being incorporated into a student body nearly 900 miles away in rural Lubbock...
February 2, 2006
Wave holds on against Mustangs
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After holding a 16-point lead early in the second half, Tulane learned another lesson: cruise control doesn't work in college basketball. The Green Wave lost control of the game but came up with a big defensive play late in the second half to hold on and beat Southern Methodist 59-56 Wednesday night at Fogelman Arena...
Green Wave scrambles, then scores with recruits
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Though it all, Kevin Moore never wavered. On Wednesday, Moore -- a quarterback from Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas, -- stayed true to his commitment of April of last year, becoming one of the first of 24 recruits to sign with Tulane. "I got up early this morning to get it (the national letter-of-intent) in as soon as I could," Moore said. "A big part of staying with Tulane was that I had given them my word...
Tulane's Scelfo lands 24 signees
Baton Rouge Advocate
University High linebacker Adam Kwentua is a prime example of the dramatic late push by the Tulane football coaching staff in salvaging a successful recruiting class from the long odyssey that was the Year of Hurricane Katrina...
Crescent City's Ivey and Sobalvarro a popular pair
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Crescent City senior Kevin Ivey has some news for people who doubt his ability to play running back in Division I with a 5-foot-10, 170-pound frame. "I have a couple more inches in me, and I'm not sure how many pounds," Ivey said. "I'll be buffed up in a couple of years." It was a joke, but no one is laughing at Crescent City...
Still waiting
New Orleans Times-Picayune
With 24 new prospects signed and secured before noon Wednesday, Tulane football coach Chris Scelfo and his staff can now look forward to some much-needed R&R. Tulane finished with nine players from Texas, six from Georgia and five from Louisiana. Scelfo said that 19 of his signees were among the 30 recruits who visited on the third week of January...
Tulane's straightforwardness rewarded
Dallas Morning News
It was the happiest Tulane coach Chris Scelfo had been in months. Signing day brought smiles to Scelfo and members of the Tulane athletic department on Wednesday when the school announced the signing of 24 players. Considering it was three more players than last year and all Tulane has been though, it seems remarkable...
Recruiting prowess overpowers Katrina
Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise
Bridge City defensive end Cody Sparks and West Brook offensive lineman Nick Landry saw the live broadcasts of the dilapidated city and the horror of flood waters sucking in neighborhoods. They saw the destruction and terror. On television, the school that was recruiting them hard and wanted them badly, a school they were seriously interested in attending, seemed to be drowning...
Tulane tells recruits city is great, despite Hurricane Katrina
Associated Press
Tulane coach Chris Scelfo had his work cut out for him when it came to recruiting football players this season. The school was hard hit by Hurricane Katrina, which forced it to cut half its athletic programs - men's track and cross country, women's swimming and soccer, men and women's golf, and men's and women's tennis as part of the cuts the hurricane caused. The cuts affected about 100 athletes...
February 1, 2006
Leary to sign with Tulane Green Wave
Chester (Pa.) Daily
A yearlong detour for Kevin Leary, one of Chester County's top high school linemen as a senior in 2004, has led to an NCAA Division I destination. Early this week, Leary, a former West Chester East standout who spent the 2005 season competing as a postgraduate at Valley Forge Military Academy, verbally committed to play football for Tulane University on a full scholarship...
TU guards begin to get grip
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane coach Dave Dickerson has been waiting for the moment when he could finally say his makeshift point guards are making tremendous progress. With the Green Wave coming off its second Conference USA victory and its first road win this season, Dickerson believes Ryan Williams and Andrew Garcia have made big steps in the right direction...
LSU, Tulane ready to greet new players
New Orleans Times-Picayune
College coaches around the state and nation will welcome new members into their football families today, as the national letter-of-intent signing date gets under way at 8 a.m. Tulane coach Chris Scelfo is expected to sign at least 21 new players to scholarships, the majority of whom were recruited within a 48-hour span on the third weekend of January, when the Green Wave's recruiting totals swelled from seven to 20...
