SportStat, a Detroit-based sports technology company, is partnering with the SWAC to implement the company's patented SCORE (Statistics Created Online Real-time Everywhere) technology during their current college basketball seasons as well as during the conference basketball tournament in Birmingham, Alabama March 8-11.

Founded by Johnny Richardson and former Detroit Lions All-Pro receiver Herman Moore, the move will allow instant access via mobile phones or web-site to real-time play-by-play video clips, scores and statistics from select SWAC athletic contests.

"The SCORE wireless application package provides schools, parents, students, alumni, coaches, scouts, and sports enthusiasts the ability to capture and access real-time information from any game at the professional, college, high school or league levels," said SportStat CEO and SCORE brainchild Richardson. "The Southwestern Athletic Conference's adoption of SCORE will provide a new tool to assist coaches in evaluating team and individual performance throughout the Conference. To be able to provide parents with real-time video clips of their kids' performance through their mobile phones when they can't attend the game in person, is huge."

Member universities that will conduct beta test of the technology include: Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Grambling State, Jackson State, Mississippi Valley State and Southern University.

"Our goal is to make this a long-term relationship," said SWAC Commissioner Robert Vowels. "We plan to introduce the SCORE technology league-wide for all SWAC sports, beginning with the 2006 football season. All in all, SCORE provides a highly-sophisticated and time-saving vehicle to access important information for all involved in a team's success."

Lady Hornets Hands Lady Jags Their First Conference Loss Trailing by 15 in the opening half, the Lady Hornets bounced back to knock off Southern University 57-51 at the Felton G. Clark Activity Center on Monday.

Southern had a perfect 7-0 league mark heading into the contest.

Led by the combination play of sophomore forward Latille Ross with 16 points and nine rebounds and sophomore guard Shantae Robinson with 15 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals, the Lady Hornets improved to 6-9 overall and 4-3 in league action. Alabama State has won three of their last four contests.

Southern who dropped to 10-7 overall and 7-1 in the SWAC was led by Rolanda Monroe with a team high 15 points.

Jaguars Selected to Repeat as HBCU National Champs

With baseball season kicking off in less than two weeks at Lee-Hines Baseball Stadium, Southern University has been chosen to repeat as Black College National Baseball Champions as released during the blackcollegebaseball.com 2006 pre-season poll.

The Jags finished 29-18 a year ago under legendary head coach Roger Cador and claimed a conference title in addition to an NCAA Regional appearance in the New Orleans Regional which was hosted by Tulane University.

Southern opens the season on Feb. 10th when they host the University of Southern Arkansas in a two day series beginning at 1PM.

Jackson State men and Women Score Big in Recent Invitationals

The Tigers continued their blazing pace with an impressive second place finish at the 2006 Leonard Hilton Memorial track meet held over the weekend at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

The group finished behind the University of Texas but finished ahead of the University of Houston and Sam Houston State University in the 13 team event.

"We did exceptionally well," said Dr. Edmond Donald, head coach of the JSU men's track and field team. "We had a really good overall display of talent."

The Tigers were paced by team captains and All-Americans Michael Tinsley and Joel Williams. Tinsley led the charge with a first place finish in the 60 meter hurdles (7.93 seconds), while Williams finished third in the 800M (1:53.21).

JSU received an additional boost from Iran Bickham's first place finish in the long jump (23 feet, 10 inches), and Andre Tilton's third place finish in the 200M (22.54). The school's 4x400M relay team, which consisted of Williams, Terry Estwick, Derek Ray and Eric Speer, capped off the effort by finishing second with a time of 3:16.08.

The Lady Tigers, who competed in the Southern Illinois Indoor Invitational, brought home several outstanding performances as the group races towards the conclusion of the 2006 indoor season.

The group's best mark came in the one-mile run when the team finished first with a time of 3:51.87.

Brittany Boston finished second in the 400 meter run with a time of 57:85 while teammate Tayara Clay finished third in the same category with a time of 58:00.