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16 - The Savannah Tribune • April 1, 2009
Sports with Walter Moore
Savannah State Tops
Mercer, Air Force
Jarrell Arnold held Mercer
scoreless until the seventh
inning as Savannah State
defeated Mercer 5-1 at
Grayson Stadium on
March 24. Arnold yielded
just four hits in 7.2
innings. The Tigers
downed Air Force 4-1 on
March 25 at Grayson as
Joseph Jackson and
Michael Allegretti com
bined to toss a four-hitter.
SSU traveled to Alabama-
Birmingham for a three-
game series on March 27-
29 and were swept, 11-5,
20-2 and 8-3. In the first
game, Jonathan Ross had
two hits, scored twice and
drove in two runs. In the
second game, Dexter
Kelley and Julius Green
had two hits apiece and in
the final contest, Dychal
Bowles had a pair of hits.
The Tigers are now 14-14.
Jones & McCoy Win In
Track
Amara Jones and Tyrone
McCoy won first place in
their events at the Georgia
Southern Invitational on
March 28. Jones a freshman,
won the women's 400m with
a time of 56.54 while
McCoy, a Statesboro native,
won the men's 800m race
with a time of 1:56.24.
Winning third place were
Amber Hughes (triple jump),
Gabriel Davis (800m),
Jamario Parks (long jump)
and the men's 4x100m relay
team. SSU had ten top ten
finishes at the meet.
Academics Sideline SSU
Quarterback
Savannah State quarterback
Kurvin Curry will sit out the
Tigers spring football prac
tice to concentrate on his
school work. As a freshman,
Curry started five games and
passed for 1,651 yards, 13
touchdowns and seven inter
ceptions. He ran for 395
yards and three scores. With
Curry out, Savannah natives
A.J. DeFilippis and Javares
Taylor will split time at quar
terback during the spring.
SSU will hold a scrimmage
on April 4 at 9:30 a.m.
Javis Signs Baseball
Contract
Former Savannah State base
ball player Brandon Javis has
signed a contract with the
Evansville Otters. Evansville
is a member of the Frontier
League 12-team independent
professional baseball league.
During his final season with
the Tigers, the Columbia,
South Carolina native hit
.326 in 129 at-bats with 42
hits, including five home
runs. He had a.432 on base
percentage and a .581 slug
ging average. He also earned
second team All-Independent
Team accolades and made
the 2008 Brooks Wallace
Pre-Season Watch List. After
graduating from Cross Creek
High School in 2004, Javis
was drafted in the 35th round
of the 2004 amateur draft by
the Seattle Mariners.
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italizes on their expertise.
In addition, Georgia
Tech plans on making this
survey data available to all
institutions so that they can
use it in planning their own
programs for returning GIs.
“There is a strong syn
ergy between the engineer
ing skills and experience of
our Post 9/11 GIs and the
nation’s need for such skills
trader President Obama’s ini
tiative to rebuild America’s
infrastructure,” said Rosser.
“This survey will
enable us to develop an
interdisciplinary Ph.D. that
precisely targets the intersec
tion of the two, and can
become a model for graduate
engineering programs for
returning GIs at institutions
around the country.”
While the specifics of
this new degree largely
depend on what the survey
data uncovers, Tech antici
pates it will include courses
in systems engineering, pub
lic policy, economics, proj
ect management and organi
zational behavior.
The College of
Engineering will work close
ly with the Ivan Allen
College of Liberal Arts and
its Sam Nunn School of
International Affairs in
developing the degree.
Georgia Tech antici
pates recruiting students for
the new degree program at
the end of 2009 and begin
ning the new Ph.D. in the fall
of 2010, in time for veterans
to take advantage of the edu
cational benefits afforded by
the new GI Bill.
“Georgia Tech demon
strates its leadership by win
ning National Science
Foundation support for
’Bridge to the Future for
GIs.’ The project will both
serve our returning veterans
and will contribute to revital
izing our engineering and
infrastructure,” said Susan
Kemnitzer, deputy director
for the Engineering
Education and Centers
Division of the National
Science Foundation.
Students .continued
Thirteen students repre
sented six countries in the
General Assembly and two
countries in the African
Union.
This was Blessed
Sacrament's first time com
peting and students received
the following awards:
Gage Bell, Thomas Benson,
Corey Moultrie: National
Attire/Ghana Kat Morin and
Kristina Laygo: National
Attire/Ecuador
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Christopher DeVane:
National Attire/Kuwait
McCaulley Coursey, Frank
Camacho and Taylor Rogers:
National Attire/Madagascar
Gage Bell and Corey
Moultrie also received
Honorable Mention for their
speeches in the General
Assembly.
Hunter Hadden and
David Wells received partic
ipation awards for their rep
resentation of Denmark.
Gabby Dell'Orco and
Sarah Conneff also received
participation awards for rep
resenting Mexico.
Gabby and Sarah gave
an opening speech in both
English & Spanish and
Gage, Thomas and Corey
presented their opening
speech in both English &
Twi, the Ashanti tribe lan
guage.
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during the months of
November 2008,
December 2008 or
January 2009.
The legislation also
provides for a one-time
payment to Veterans
Affairs (VA) and Railroad
Retirement Board (RRB)
beneficiaries. The VA
and RRB will be respon
sible for paying individu
als under their respective
programs.
However, if someone
receives Social Security
and SSI, VA or RRB ben
efits, he or she will
receive only one $250
payment.
People getting
Social Security or SSI
should not contact the
agency unless a payment
is not received by June 4,
2009.
For more detailed
information about the
$250 one-time economic
recovery payments, go to
www. social security, gov/p
ayment.
To learn more about
the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of
2009, go to www.recov-
ery.gov.
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The organization is the
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that he listened to
Lester's gospel show via
WEAS-FM as a lad and
always admired his
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Now that he is in a posi
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The award ceremony
took place on Friday,
March 27 at 514 Martin
Luther King, Jr. Blvd..
The award was pre
sented by representatives
from the Savannah
Development & Renewal
Authority, Keep Savannah
Beautiful, the Downtown
Business Association, and
the Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd./Montgomery Street
Business Association.
Blowin' Smoke was
chosen by the selection
committee because of their
ongoing contribution to
beautifying Savannah's
greater downtown commu
nity.
The Golden Broom
Award is an award that is
given to recognize a busi
ness in Greater Downtown
that keeps the area in front
of their store clean and lit-
ter-free.
Businesses that are
nominated for this award
must be located within
Greater Downtown
Savannah, which includes
any establishment located
between River Street and
Park Avenue, and Martin
Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
to East Broad Street.
Business may also be locat
ed on the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Boulevard and
Montgomery Street
Corridor from River Street
to 52nd Street.
The Golden Broom is
awarded using the follow
ing criteria:
Overall business appear
ance, a well kept tree lawn,
walkway, or store front, a
consistently clean and lit-
ter-free establishment,sig
nage quality, graffiti free
and landscaping and flow
ers.
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