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Missouri S & T football coach steps down

February 19, 2013 By
David Brown

David Brown

David Brown, who guided Missouri S&T’s football team to its best season in more than three decades in 2012, is stepping down from the head coaching post as he has accepted a position on the staff at Fresno State University.

Brown will join the Bulldogs’ staff as a defensive secondary coach after spending the last three seasons as the Miners’ head coach. He led S&T to a mark of 19-14 in those three years which included a 10-1 record and a No. 24 national ranking in the final American Football Coaches Association poll in the 2012 season.

“My family enjoyed our time in Rolla and coaching at Missouri S&T,” Brown said. “We appreciated the friendly supportive people around town and campus. I can’t say enough about the players that I was able to coach. They are great young men and will definitely be successful in life. They were a great group to work with every morning. We were able to accomplish a lot in a short period of time.”

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Three Missouri football programs finish in the Top 25 of D-II polls

December 18, 2012 By

In the final Division II football Top 25 rankings that were released by the American Football Coaches Association, Missouri Western from St. Joseph finished 5th at 12-2 , Northwest Missouri State from Maryville finished 10th at 10-3 and Missouri S & T from Rolla finished 24th after going 10-1.

The Miners, who finished the season at 10-1, were the only team that did not participate in a post-season game that was in the final poll for the season. Missouri S&T tied its single-season record for victories with 10 and also set a one-year scoring record with 458 points as it finished second in the Great Lakes Valley Conference to Indianapolis, who was ranked No. 15 in the last poll.

The Griffons win six straight games against top-25 opponents and opened up the season 6-0 for the first time ever under head coach Jerry Partridge and the first time since 1981. The six straight victories by the Griffons to start the season helped them garner a #4 ranking in the AFCA poll and #3 by D2Football.com which are the highest in school history.

The Bearcats finish ranked 10th after their ninth straight 10-win season and advancing to the NCAA Division II playoffs. It was also the ninth straight trip to the NCAA playoffs for Northwest – the longest current streak in NCAA – as the Bearcats advanced to the second round before falling to Minnesota State Mankato in a double overtime thriller.

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Missouri S & T’s playoff bid comes up short

November 12, 2012 By

Missouri S&T’s hopes of making the field for the NCAA Division II football playoffs fell short, as the Miners were not selected as part of the field despite its 10-1 regular season record.

The Miners finished the season with a six-game winning streak and tied the school record for victories in a year with the undefeated 1980 squad after beating South Dakota School of Mines 66-17 to finish the year on Saturday. However, the Miners, who were ranked seventh in each of the last two NCAA Super Region Four rankings, could not jump over any of the teams ahead of them in the rankings as all six teams that held those spots in last Monday’s rankings recorded victories on Saturday.

MissourI S&T finished the season in second place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference to Indianapolis, who handed S&T its only loss of the year on Sept. 29. The Greyhounds were the only GLVC team chosen for the playoffs.

Missouri S&T was also ranked 20th in last week’s American Football Coaches Association poll, the first national ranking for the program since 1984.

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Missouri S & T long jumper makes London finals

August 3, 2012 By

Tyrone Smith made the most of his final attempt of the afternoon Friday, using a seasonal-best jump of 7.97 meters (26 feet, 1¾ inches) to qualify for the finals in the long jump at the Summer Olympics.

Smith, a 2007 Missouri S&T graduate who is representing his native country of Bermuda at the Olympics, hit his mark on the last of his three qualification jumps to finish in 10th place among the 40 competitors in the preliminaries. Only the top 12 finishers on Friday advanced to the finals, which will take place Saturday at 1:55 p.m., Central time, at the Olympic Stadium.

On his first jump of the day, Smith posted a mark of 7.73 meters (25-4½), then recorded a slightly better jump of 7.75 meters (25-5¼) in the second round. On his last jump – competitors are given only three jumps in the preliminaries – he posted his mark of 7.97 into a slight headwind to vault into eighth place at the time.

Two jumpers that followed Smith passed his mark on their final attempts, but Smith was able to hang onto the 10th place position to earn the opportunity to jump again on Saturday. Smith is guaranteed a higher finish at this Olympic competition after finishing 15th in the event at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

The top marks in the preliminaries came from Brazil’s Maura Vinicius Da Silva and Marquise Goodwin from the United States, as each had a jump of 8.11 meters or 26-7¼. The last qualifier was Germany’s Sebastian Bayer, who had a top mark of 7.92 meters (26 feet) and a second-best jump of 7.88 meters (25-10¼) to break a tie with fellow countryman Christian Reif.

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Missouri S & T comes up short against ranked opponent

January 13, 2012 By

After scoring on two of its first four possessions of the game Thursday night, the Missouri S&T men’s basketball team was stifled by Northern Kentucky’s defense for the remainder of the first half as the eighth-ranked Norse recorded a 62-36 win over S&T at Billy Key Court.

Michael Jackson (Wichita, Kan./Wichita East) threw down a dunk 27 seconds into the contest to put the Miners in front, then after the Norse got a three-pointer from Tony Rack, Tommy Pelczynski (Nashville, Ill./Nashville) knocked won a jumper to put S&T back into the lead. But after Pelczynski’s basket at the 16:54 mark, the Miners made only one more shot from the field over the balance of the half – going one-of-13 and committing 11 turnovers in that span.

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