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Member Colleges
 
St. Louis junior colleges to cut 7 of 22 sports programs in 2010-11  
 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Oct 23, 2009
Seven of the 22 intercollegiate athletic programs offered this year in the St. Louis Community College district will be cut beginning next fall. The programs to be eliminated: wrestling, women's volleyball and men's soccer at the Meramec campus; baseball at Forest Park; baseball and men's and women's track...

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This week at CCRI  
 Warwick Beacon
- Oct 22, 2009
Women’s Soccer The CCRI women’s soccer program is having its best season since 2003, when the team finished as national runners-up. Now, the Lady Knights are starting to re-write the record books, too.

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College notebook: Hamilton soccer coach Nizzi entering Cortland State’s Hall of Fame  
 Utica Observer Dispatch (AP)
- Oct 20, 2009
Hamilton College men’s soccer coach Perry Nizzi (Rome/Rome Free Academy) will be inducted into Cortland State’s C-Club Hall of Fame during the college’s 41st annual banquet and ceremony Saturday, Oct.

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Football
 
No.7 EMCC to host Delta looking to keep unblemished North mark intact  
 Daily Times Leader
- Oct 22, 2009
SCOOBA – Bidding to nail down a second straight 8-1 regular-season record and keep their unblemished divisional mark intact, the seventh-ranked Lions of East Mississippi will close out the 2009 regular-season football campaign by playing host to Mississippi Delta Thursday evening on the Scooba campus.

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SWJCFC Notebook: Crunch time officially arrives for playoff hopefuls  
 News-Journal.com
- Oct 22, 2009
Crunch time has officially arrived for teams in the Southwest Junior College Football Conference. ...especially five teams battling for the final two playoff spots in the league.

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'Hounds break into JCGridiron top 5  
 Fort Scott Tribune
- Oct 22, 2009
Fort Scott Community College's football team remained No. 3 in the NJCAA/ jcfootball. com poll released Tuesday. But it also attained its first top-5 ranking in the JCGridiron.

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Area players fill spots for top-ranked Blinn  
 Thefacts.com (AP)
- Oct 22, 2009
Three seasons ago, the Blinn Buccaneers were on top of the National Junior College Athletic Association as they coasted to a national football title. They are back at it again this year, ranked No.

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Local briefs  
 Hutchnews.com
- Oct 22, 2009
HCC's Davis named defensive player of week Hutchinson Community College sophomore defensive back Kendall Davis has been named the NJCAA national defensive player of the week.

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Tritons tripped up at DuPage  
 The Messenger
- Oct 21, 2009
Advertisement GLEN ELLYN, Ill. - Kevin Twait's Iowa Central football team hit a stumbling block on the road here Saturday. After posting a dominant home victory over Harper a week ago, the 17th-ranked (NJCAA) Tritons (4-3 overall, 3-3 MFC West) came out on the short end of a tight 24-21 decision at DuPage (4...

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No. 7 Lions look to close perfect North season  
 The Meridian Star
- Oct 21, 2009
SCOOBA — Bidding to nail down a second straight 8-1 regular-season record and keep their unblemished divisional mark intact, the seventh-ranked Lions of East Mississippi will close out the 2009 regular-season football campaign by hosting Mississippi Delta on Thursday at 7 p.

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Warriors hoping for repeat of 2008 finale  
 The Meridian Star
- Oct 21, 2009
With the 2009 season about to end for the East Central Community College football squad, interim coach Brian Anderson is hoping for a similar finish to 2008.

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Scottsdale CC's Aholt earns national JC honor  
 The Arizona Republic
- Oct 21, 2009
Former Cave Creek Cactus Shadows High quarterback Phillip Aholt earned National Junior College Offensive Player of the Week after his performance last Saturday against Phoenix College.

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Matadors double dip on ACCAC awards  
 YumaSun.com (AP)
- Oct 20, 2009
9:48 PM BY ROB WEILER, SUN STAFF WRITER Last week, Abraham Villon and the Arizona Western College soccer team had to share the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week award with another school.

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Eagles grab first round lead at Gulf Coast  
 The Meridian Star
- Oct 19, 2009
GULFPORT — The Meridian Community College golf team used a 1-under-par 287 to take the opening-round lead at the Hilton Garden Inn Invitational hosted by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College at Windance Country Club on Monday.

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Soccer
 
For CCRI soccer, it's a season worth waiting for  
 Warwick Beacon
- Oct 22, 2009
After missing last season with an illness, CCRI women’s soccer coach Dennis Grassini was chomping at the bit to return to his post this season. It’s easy to see why.

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Hawks handle Chiefs in regional quarterfinals  
 Daily Herald
- Oct 21, 2009
The NJCAA Region IV men's soccer playoffs got underway for Harper College on Wednesday afternoon in Palatine. No. 6 Waubonsee came in at 2-14-1 but played No.

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Two Cavaliers named to all-region first team  
 The Daily Journal (AP)
- Oct 20, 2009
The Kankakee Community College men's soccer team reached a number of first-time achievements this fall, including the first season in which the team won more than one match.

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HCCC wins to close out regular season  
 The Evening Times
- Oct 20, 2009
COLLEGE SOCCER - HERKIMER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE 3, GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 0 HERKIMER, N.Y. — Fresh off being named Region III’s Male Athlete of the Week, Herkimer County Community College freshman Ted Cribley assisted on all three goals in the Generals’ 3-0 shutout of Genesee Community College on the...

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Bercaw goal lifts BCC women into tie  
 PhillyBurbs.com
- Oct 20, 2009
LOCAL ROUNDUP Chloe Bercaw scored midway through the second half, lifting Burlington County College into a 1-1 tie with Mercer County in Garden State Athletic Conference women's soccer Monday.

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Volleyball
 
Transfers impact Missouri volleyball team  
 Missourian
- Oct 21, 2009
COLUMBIA — Paola Ampudia and Rosa Medrano bicker just like every other pair of roommates. “She never has time to talk to me,” Medrano said. “She’s always talking on the phone.

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Lady Jayhawks Fall To MNE  
 The Post-Journal
- Oct 21, 2009
Advertisement NORTH EAST, Pa. - The final volleyball match of the regular-season for Jamestown Community College turned into a close defeat Tuesday night.

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Artichokes stop Matadors cold  
 YumaSun.com (AP)
- Oct 21, 2009
10:52 PM BY EDWARD CARIFIO, SUN STAFF WRITER Playing at home for the final time this season, wearing pink in support of breast cancer awareness and honoring their sophomores before the game, the Arizona Western College volleyball team pulled out all the stops in a must-win match against No.

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Eagles Drop To #3 In NJCAA Poll This Week  
 11 KMVT
- Oct 21, 2009
at 11:58 PM CDT Story Updated: Oct 21, 2009 at 11:58 PM CDT 10-20-2009 The College of Southern Idaho Lady Golden Eagles dropped two spots from first to third in this week's NJCAA volleyball poll after a five-set loss to the North Idaho Cardinals on Saturday.

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Golf
 
College golf: Odessa College hopes being home means being dry  
 Odessa American Online (AP)
- Oct 21, 2009
Where: Odessa Country Club. Teams: Odessa College, New Mexico Junior College, Midland College, Western Texas College, University of the Southwest, Lubbock Christian, New Mexico Military Institute, Ranger College.

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