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Atlanta, GA — After being spotted a four point lead, Morehouse couldn’t manage to bring enough energy to beat the winless Lane College Dragons. The Dragons (1-10) got their first victory of the season, trumping Morehouse 61-55 Saturday in Forbes Arena. Lane’s Ashton Patton led the game in scoring with 19 points.

Morehouse had a dismal shooting night, only completing 32 percent from the field. Morehouse big man Andrae Nelson and guard Shawn Allen, tried their best to keep Morehouse in the game with double-doubles in points and rebounds.  Nelson had 18 points and 12 rebounds with a few blocks while Allen had 16 points and 11 rebounds.

Struggling from the field as a team, Morehouse also lacked intensity and energy during the game as they lost their second straight home game. Head coach Grady Brewer of the Maroon Tigers said that they will turn back to practice to look for answers within the team.

Heading into a brief road trip stint, the Tigers will take on Paine, Stillman and Tuskegee over the next week before returning back to Atlanta.

Morehouse College’s next home game will be against their AUC rivals, Clark Atlanta University Panthers, January 26^th at 7:30 inside Forbes Arena.

- Keion Grissom

David Carter- 32.

Without question, David Carter is the best running-back in Morehouse College football history and maybe the best player the program has ever produced.

 As a junior, he has more touchdowns and points than any other player to ever grace the field at Morehouse College, with 35 touchdowns.  Carter broke the single season touchdown record formerly held by son of Denzel Washington and former NFL player John David Washington who scored 13 TDs in 2005, by scoring 19 of his own for Maroon Tigers this season.  With all the accolades attached to his name, his character remains humble and steadfast with a will to win.

“The coaches keep telling me ‘you broke this record, you broke that record’.  But, all I want to do is win,” said Carter.  “It’s an honor to be able to play; I didn’t even think I would play college football,” added Carter.

As great as Carter is now, there was a time when coaches didn’t see the potential for him to play at the college football level.  He didn’t receive any athletic scholarships offers coming out of high school and was on his way to play baseball at Kennesaw State University, before changing his mind and making a decision to work hard and walk on to the Morehouse football team.

As a freshman in his first game, Carter rushed for 163 yards and two touchdowns, a star was born.

“Finally opportunity arrived and I took it.  It’s been all downhill from there,” said Carter.

In a game this year against Fort Valley he rushed for 251 yards and four touchdowns, in the first half!  This performance was a NCAA division 2 first half rushing record and a Morehouse single game rushing record.  Carter barley played in the third quarter and didn’t play in the fourth otherwise he would have been on pace to break the NCAA D2 full game rushing record of 419 yards. 

“I use to go to Fort Valley as a child.  Both my parents are from there so it felt like a homecoming.  Everything was going right that day my offensive line executed blocks and receivers made some nice blocks down field.  As a team our goal is to play faster, harder, smarter than our opponents in every game,” said Carter.

He broke his own Morehouse single-season rushing record from last year of 1,347 with 1495 yards on the ground this year.

“After last year my coaches told me I had good feet, but I didn’t have that breakaway speed,” said Carter.

This criticism fueled a work ethic in Carter that is unmatched by his competitors.  After ending the season weighting 240lbs last year, Carter entered this season at a slim and sleek 215lbs.  In the Nation Classic against Howard this year, he got a chance to show that breakaway speed when he sprinted 79 yards for a touchdown against a division 1 defense.

Carter holds just about every major offensive record a running back can attain at Morehouse, except the career rushing record which he is about 350 yards away from. The only thing between Carter, that record, and a potential NFL career is his much anticipated senior season.

-Quincy Young

Quincy Young is a staff writer at HOUSEsports. He can be reached at Qyoung2@tigermail.morehouse.edu  or followed @Qbballin3 on twitter.

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 ATLANTA–  The West Georgia Wolves easily cruised to a 79-53 victory of the Clark Atlanta Panthers.

 The game proved to be uncompetitive from the start.  After the 10:59 mark in the first half when the Wolves took a 13-11 lead, the Panthers trailed for the rest of the game.  

 Forward Gavin Field lead the way for the Wolves, finishing the night with 20 points and 11 rebounds.  The Wolves had four other players score in double digits.

 As for the Panthers both guards Royce Hamilton and Logan Shoffner scored a team high 14 points.  

 Clark Atlanta (0-2) next play at home against Stillman College on Nov. 19.

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 ATLANTA– Free throw shooting proved to be key in the University of North Alabama Lions 73 -67 victory over the Morehouse College.

 The Lions went 23-29 from the free throw line, shooting an incredible 80 percent for the game.  Senior guard Warrick Mastin was the leading scorer for the Lions.  Mastin finished the night with 24 points and six rebounds.  

 The Tigers managed to keep the game close for most of the first half.  Despite the Lions shooting an impressive 53.8 percent (7-13) from the three-point line, the score, 38-30 remained relatively close at halftime.  Four minutes into the second half, the Tigers tied the game at 40 points thanks mostly to the efforts of center Andrae Nelson. In that four minute stretch, Nelson scored six of his team high 19 points.

 “We have to get the ball into him,” said head coach Grady Brewer about Nelson.  “We have to realize that’s the person we have to go to.”

The Lions withstood Morehouse’s charge and responded with their own, and began to pull away with the lead.  The Lions had went on a 10-4 run and lead comfortably 55-46 at the 9:22 mark.  Morehouse slowly began to chip away at the lead.  With 4:58, forward Jonathan Tassin intercepted a pass and finished at the other end with dunk.   Tassin, who was fouled on the play, calmly sank his free throw, making the score 61-57.

 After both teams exchanged a couple of scores, Morehouse found themselves down 67-70 with a 40.8 seconds left in the game. Then with the ball in his hands at the top of the key, Warrick Mastin sliced through Morehouse’s defense and made  what proved to be the game-clinching layup.  Mastin’s score put the Lions up 72-67.  

 Morehouse now with an 0-2 record, next play at home on November 29 against Stillman College.

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Atlanta GA- The defending SIAC champions, Clark Atlanta University, kicked off Morehouse’s Tipoff Classic Friday against the University of North Alabama at Morehouse’s Forbes Arena.  Unfortunately the CAU Panthers came up short 76-73 in overtime. 

The panthers led majority of the game with their leading scorer Brandon O’ Brien with a team high of 21 points.  With time winding down, UNA came back and with 22 seconds left, Beaumont Beasley tied the game and sent the game into overtime. 

At the start of overtime, the UNA lions came off strong with Warrick Mastin scoring six unanswered points.  The Panthers tried their best to come back but the Lions offensive game was too strong.

The Lion’s lead scorer Beasley had 24 points while Mastin and Theron Jenkins had a combine total with 31 points and 20 rebounds. 

Logan Shoffner recorded a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds and Willis Brownlee tried to help the Panthers with 19 points. 

Clark will be playing again at Forbes Arena Saturday as the Panthers go against the University of West Georgia at 6 p.m.

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Morehouse vs West Georgia

11/11/11

ATLANTA‒  . After leading for almost the entire game, the Tigers miraculously found a way to lose 50-49 to the West Georgia Wolves.  Officially, the Tigers had the lead for 38:10.  College basketball games are 40 minutes total.

 “We got away from our game,” said head coach Grady Brewer.  “With five minutes left in the game we started playing selfishly and had too many turnovers.”

  While turnovers were a big factor in the game, the Tigers suffered a big blow when center Andrae Nelson fouled out with 4:16 left in the game.

 “I definitely thought that me being on the bench definitely affected my team,” said Nelson a returning junior.  “I thought I could have played a little better defense by moving my feet a little quicker,” said Nelson about picking up his fifth foul.

 When Nelson left the game, the Tigers were still had a 49-46 lead.  However, with 2:49 left in the game Tigers point guard Adam Callaway had the ball stripped on his way to the basket.  Wolves guard Jordan Nelson easily scored a layup after Callaway’s mistake to close the lead to 49-48.

 As the game drew towards end Morehouse began to feel the pressure.  With 21 seconds left in the game,forward Da’Ron Sims scored the go ahead layup to give the Wolves a 50-49 lead.

 On their next possession, Morehouse struuggled to execute in the clutch moment.  With six seconds on the clock, Tigers shooting guard Daniyal Faquir double-clutched his shot that bounced off the side of the rim

 “We definitely have to work on our late game situations,” said Brewer.  “We have to know who we can go to in tough situations.”

 The Tigers will have have a chance to avenge their opening loss on Saturday November 11, when they face off against the University of North Alabama at Forbes Arena.

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