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November
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PRCC wins the state championship
for the second consecutive year. This brings the total state championship
wins to 17.
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Sunday, November 28, 2004
Pearl River pounds Butler
for NJCAA championship
Wildcats undisputed national
champions after convincing 35-14 romp over Grizzlies in Dalton Defenders
Bowl in Coffeyville, Kan.
COFFEYVILLE, Kan.
— Pearl River Community College is now the undisputed NJCAA national football
champion after its convincing 35-14 victory over the defending champ Butler
County (Kan.) Grizzlies here Sunday in the Dalton Defenders Bowl...more
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
PRCC splits with Northwest
to wrap in Gulf Coast Tournament
Wildcats drop to 4-2
with 89-77 loss to Rangers;
Lady Wildcats improve
to 6-1 with 58-56 victory
PERKINSTON — Pearl
River Community College split with Northwest Mississippi in the inal round
of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tournament here Wednesday...more
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
No. 2 Pearl River guns
for NJCAA national title Sunday against
top-ranked Butler
MACJC champ Wildcats
head to Dalton Defenders Bowl in Coffeyville, Kan.,
to challenge Jayhawk
champ Grizzlies for first national championship
since 1961
POPLARVILLE — MACJC
state champion Pearl River shoots for its first national championship since
1961 this Sunday when the second-ranked Wildcats take on top-ranked and
defending NJCAA champ Butler County (Kan.) in the Dalton Defenders Bowl
Sunday in Veterans Memorial Stadium in Coffeyville, Kan...more
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Pearl River sweeps East
Miss in Gulf Coast Tournament
Wildcats avenge road
loss to Lions with 80-75 romp;
Lady ’Cats trim Lady
Lions 62-59 for fifth win of year
PERKINSTON — Pearl
River Community College swept East Mississippi in opening-round women’s
and men’s basketball action here Monday in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tournament...more
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
PRCC’s 1961 championship
team mirrors 2004 Wildcats
POPLARVILLE - The
only time Pearl River Community College won a national championship in
football John F. Kennedy was in his first year as president...more
Monday, November 22, 2004
Developmental disabilities
workshop held at Woodall Center
HATTIESBURG--A day-long
workshop designed to assist educators with developmental disabilities (DD)
students was held recently at the Woodall Advanced Technology Center in
Hattiesburg with approximately 125 educators from across Mississippi in
attendance...more
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Lady Wildcats rip Bishop
58-39
PRCC women improve to
4-1 with road win in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. — Pearl
River Community College’s Lady Wildcats ripped Bishop State 58-39 to improve
to 4-1 overall in NJCAA women’s basketball action here Monday...more
Thursday, November 18, 2004
PRCC quarterback Oliver
has had super season
POPLARVILLE - Jimmy
Oliver gave Pearl River Community College football fans many moments to
remember this season...more
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Charter bus available
for PRCC football fans
POPLARVILLE - Fans
of Pearl River Community College’s unbeaten and state champion Wildcats
have an opportunity to support the football team later this month in its
quest for a national championship...more
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
PRCC opens Woodall Advanced
Technology Center
HATTIESBURG - Some
300 business, education and community leaders, including Mississippi Gov.
Haley Barbour, were on hand Tuesday for the ribbon cutting, officially
opening Pearl River Community College’s Lowery A. Woodall Advanced Technology
Center...more
Monday, November 15, 2004
PRCC accepts bid to play
for national title in Kansas
POPLARVILLE - Unbeaten
Pearl River Community College, ranked No. 2 in the country by the National
Junior College Athletic Assn., has accepted an invitation to play No. 1
Butler County (Kan.) Community College in the third annual Dalton Defenders
Bowl on Sunday, Nov. 28, in Coffeyville, Kan...more
Saturday, November 13, 2004
PRCC repeats as MACJC
champs with 24-13 victory over Hinds
No. 2 Wildcats will now
battle top-ranked Butler CC for national title
POPLARVILLE — No.
2-ranked Pearl River Community College repeated as MACJC champions here
Saturday with a 24-13 victory over No. 6 Hinds, marking a record 17th state
title for the Wildcats...more
Saturday, November 13, 2004
PRCC rips Delgado on
road
Defending state champ
Wildcats roll to 89-65 victory; Lady ’Cats take 54-47 victory over Lady
Dolphins
NEW ORLEANS — Pearl River Community College swept Delgado in women’s and
men’s NJCAA basketball action here Saturday...more
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Four Wildcats ink D-I
baseball scholarships
Hartel, Winstead headed
to Southern Miss;
Rodriguez to Ole Miss;
Varnado to UNO
POPLARVILLE — Four
members of Pearl River Community College’s 2004 MACJC state championship
baseball team signed grand-in-aid scholarships with Division 1-A colleges
Wednesday here on the PRCC campus...more
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Walley says Lady ’Cats
could return to MACJC South Division elite in 2004-2005
POPLARVILLE — After
winning the Region 23 women’s basketball title in 2002-2003 and a trip
to the NJCAA nationals in Kansas, Pearl River Community College missed
out on all post-season play last year for the first time in head coach
Ed Walley’s four years at the Lady Wildcat helm...more
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Pearl River men relying
on freshmen if they’re
to ‘three-peat’ as MACJC
champs in 2004-2005
POPLARVILLE — With
well over three decades of basketball coaching under his belt, there’s
not much you can tell long-time Pearl River men’s hoops coach Richard Mathis
about the game as he enters his 14th season with the Wildcats...more
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
No. 2-ranked Wildcats
eyes rematch with Hinds Saturday for MACJC title
Seventh-ranked Eagles’
only blemish to 9-1 record
was a 37-30 setback to
Pearl River Sept. 30 in Raymond
POPLARVILLE — No.
2-ranked and undefeated Pearl River will take on perennial powerhouse Hinds
for the second time this season Saturday when the Wildcats cast their wares
for a repeat as MACJC champions...more
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Pearl River splits with
East Mississippi
Lady Wildcats win convincingly
77-56; Wildcats suffer first loss 64-60
SCOOBA — Pearl River
Community College split with non-division rival East Mississippi in women’s
and men’s MACJC basketball action here Monday...more
Monday, November 8, 2004
PRCC hosting tailgate
party Saturday
POPLARVILLE - Pearl
River Community College will host a tailgate party and pep rally at noon
Saturday in Dobie Holden Stadium in conjunction with the State Championship
title game, pitting the unbeaten Wildcats against Hinds Community College...more
Monday, November 8, 2004
No. 2-ranked PRCC demolishes
ICC 40-12 to
cop berth in MACJC title
bout versus Hinds
South champ Wildcats
will host rematch with
Hinds in state championship
game Saturday
POPLARVILLE — Defending
MACJC state champion Pearl River put a big exclamation point on its prestigious
No. 2 national ranking here Saturday, as the Wildcats demolished Itawamba
40-12 to earn a berth in the state title bout versus Hinds...more
Friday, November 5, 2004
Defending MACJC champ
Wildcats dominate Mississippi Delta 83-61
Lady Wildcats drop hard-fought
49-43 decision to Lady Trojans
POPLARVILLE — True
freshman Alton Robinson had another huge night for defending MACJC champion
Pearl River here Tuesday, as the 6-foot-6 forward pumped in 26 points to
lead the Wildcats to an 83-61 non-division basketball victory over Mississippi
Delta in M.R. White Colisuem...more
Thursday, November 4, 2004
PRCC baseball coach pleased
with fall workouts
POPLARVILLE - Following
six weeks of workouts and several exhibition games this fall, Pearl River
Community College head baseball coach Jay Artigues says Wildcat fans have
something exciting to look forward to again next spring...more
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
River tips off hoops
season with sweep of Delgado
Defending state champ
Wildcats roll to 86-72 victory;
Lady ’Cats demolish Lady
Dolphins 74-49
POPLARVILLE — Pearl
River Community College tipped off its 2004-2005 women’s and men’s basketball
seasons with a bang here Tuesday, sweeping
Delgado of New Orleans...more
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
No. 2-ranked PRCC eyes
rematch with upstart ICC in opening round of
playoffs Indians snatch
post-season berth by killing nationally-ranked Northwest’s playoff hopes
with 20-19 win in regular-season finale
POPLARVILLE — Pearl
River and Itawamba will do battle for the second time this football season
when the second-ranked Wildcats host the Indians in the first round of
the MACJC state football playoffs here Saturday at 2 p.m. in Dobie Holden
Stadium...more
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
PRCC PTA students give
back to local community
HATTIESBURG - Sophomore
and freshman students in the Pearl River Community College’s Physical Therapist
Assistant program at the Forrest County Center in Hattiesburg recently
provided community service by working a full day assisting Habitat for
Humanity...more
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
PRCC softball coach White
pleased with fall workouts
POPLARVILLE - Pearl
River Community College women’s softball coach Leigh White feels confident
about her 2004 team following six weeks of fall workouts and six exhibition
games...more
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Lady ’Cats end season
with 1-0 double-OT
loss to defending champ
Hinds in regionals
RAYMOND — Pearl
River Community College’s Lady Wildcats took defend champion Hinds into
double overtime before falling 1-0 to the Lady Eagles in the Region 23
Women’s Soccer Tournament here Friday...more
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Poole receives scholarship
POPLARVILLE - Pearl
River Community College's Director of Extended Education, Janice Poole,
was awarded the prestigious Red Red Rose A.J. & Elinor Comfort Memorial
Scholarship this October during the Mississippi Association of School Administrators
Education Conference in Jackson...more
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