Newberry 24-West Florida 17 The #3 seed and #16 ranked Newberry College Wolves (11-1) made history by winning their ninth consecutive game and advanced to the NCAA Division 2 regional final with a 24-17 road victory at #2 regional seed and #9 nationally ranked West Florida in the second round of the NCAA Division 2 […]
Talk about the proverbial big shoes to fill. New Benedict College coach Ron Dickerson Jr. is only replacing the most successful coach in school history. Chennis Berry is now the head coach at SC State. All he did in three seasons with the Tigers is win 22 out of 29 games including two conference championships
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Plenty of activity Thursday for three of the HBCU football programs in South Carolina. The biggest news came out of Orangeburg where South Carolina State President Alexander Conyers announced to the Board of Trustees that Benedict coach Chennis Berry had been selected as the new football coach replacing the retiring Buddy Pough. The board approved
2022 was a magical season for the Benedict Tigers. It was their best ever. Coach Chennis Berry led his team to a perfect 10-0 regular season, and then a victory in the SIAC Championship Game. The perfect season, however, ended in the first round of the NCAA Division Two Playoffs. The Tigers have 17 starters
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The Benedict Tigers showed a lot of progress in year one under Chennis Berry going 5-5 and finishing the season with back-to-back victories. Nineteen starters return, ten on offense led by quarterback Eric Phoenix who passed for 1891 yards and 12 touchdowns in seven games. But Southern University transfer John Lampley is providing strong competition
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Chennis Berry came to Benedict as the Tigers’ new head coach in February of 2020. He’s yet to coach his first official game. The former offensive coordinator at Southern saw the 2020 fall season wiped out by Covid. There was no spring season, so on September 4th, Berry finally will coach his first game in
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Benedict cut its ties with football coach Mike White after the 2019 season and in February hired Chennis Berry, the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Southern University. Berry was with the Jaguars for seven seasons and during that time they won a SWAC Championship and four division titles. Last season the Jaguars averaged
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