Southern Arkansas University
Contact: Houston Taylor LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Southern Arkansas return specialist and wide receiver Rafael Thomas (5-8, 180, So., Lufkin, Texas) will be honored January 27 at the seventh annual Little Rock Touchdown Club awards banquet at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock. Thomas is one of 11 state collegiate football players selected to [...]
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas University is now a member of the Great American Conference. SAU joins a nine-member league that includes six NCAA Division II universities from Arkansas and three from Oklahoma. The formal announcement of the new conference name was made today by the chief executive officers of the nine member institutions – [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor, SID BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Southern Arkansas is represented by three players on the 2010 All-Gulf South Conference football team, released by the league office Thursday. Defensive tackle Cedric Thornton (6-4, 297, Sr., Star City) and wide receiver/return specialist Rafael Thomas (5-8, 180, So., Lufkin, Texas) were named as first team members, while [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas closed its 2010 season suffering a 52-34 loss to Ouachita Baptist Saturday at Wilkins Stadium. The contest was all offense as the teams combined for 1,038 yards, with the Tigers recording 553 and the Muleriders 485. OBU racked up 381 on the ground behind Daniel McGee’s 195 [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor EL DORADO, Ark. – Southern Arkansas (1-8, 1-6 GSC) rallied from a 28-3 deficit to Arkansas-Monticello with 20 fourth quarter points, but fell short as the Boll Weevils (4-6, 3-5 GSC) secured a 28-23 win Saturday in the second annual Boomtown Classic at Memorial Stadium. The contest served as the featured Gulf [...]