GULFPORT, Miss. I With a berth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championship on the line, Alex Massie stepped to the plate with a runner at third in the bottom of the 11th inning. All she did was deliver for Alabama State. The sophomore laid down a squeeze back to the pitcher that was enough to score Kindall DeRamus from…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. | Alabama State will be making their third appearance in the NCAA Tournament next week and will face Penn State in the opening round of the tournament. The two teams will meet on Wednesday, April 28 at 6 pm (CT) at a location to be determined. This year’s NCAA tournament (both men and women) being held in Cary…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. | Alabama State fell behind early and could not recover, falling to Troy 16-3 in a midweek contest Wednesday afternoon at Montgomery’s Riverwalk Stadium. Troy (10-10) got on the board early against Hornet starter Osvaldo Mendez, with five runs in the top half of the first inning of the contest to take the early lead. Mendez (0-2) suffered…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Ezra Gray ran for a career-high 195 yards with all three of his TD runs in the fourth quarter to help Alabama State beat Jackson State 35-28. Gray tied it at 21 on a 4-yard TD run with 10:50 left in the fourth quarter and gave the Hornets a touchdown lead each time with his next…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | The top two seeds advanced through the 2021 Cricket Wireless Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Tournament and will meet in the championship game live on ESPN3 Saturday afternoon. No. 2 seed Alabama State advanced with a 69-60 victory over No. 3 seed Southern in the semifinals behind 22 points from Jayla Crawford. Alabama State (16-3) used a 47.8…
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. | While the Hornets are two days away from an unprecedented spring football season, the Alabama State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics continues to work on the future and announced a trip to the Rose Bowl in 2022. Alabama State will travel to Pasadena (Calif.) to face UCLA for the first time in school history on September 10,…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. | The Alabama State volleyball team has decided to opt out of the 2021 spring season due to health and safety concerns surrounding COVID-19. Increased numbers around the country played a major factor in the student-athletes choosing to focus on training. Although all precautions were taken to ensure their health and safety, the student-athletes decided they would opt…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced today divisional realignment with the additions of Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman beginning with the 2021-22 academic year. The SWAC Council of Presidents and Chancellors along with the leagues’ Athletic Directors and Senior Woman Administrators voted unanimously in favor of the realignment taking into consideration shortest distance of travel among league membership, student-athlete welfare,…
The Southwestern Athletic Conference has unveiled its spring football schedule for all 10 schools. Football was moved from fall to spring because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Alabama State University will face Alabama A&M in the Magic City Classic in Birmingham on April 17. The schedule includes one non-conference open date for each team and conference games each week beginning…
