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By Steve Carpenter
HCC Sports Information Director
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Hutchinson Community
College football team earned its first top 10 national ranking in 13 years
when the Blue Dragons came it at No. 7 in the first NJCAA/JC Football.com
regular-season poll released on Tuesday.
Hutchinson’s last Top 10
national football ranking came in 1996 after starting that season 3-0,
including a 39-25 victory over then-No. 2 Garden City. Hutchinson was ranked
No. 4 in the NJCAA poll and earned the program’s first No. 1 ranking ever by
JC Gridwire.
The Blue Dragons started the
2009 season ranked No. 13 in the preseason NJCAA poll and climbed six spots
in the first regular-season poll.
Hutchinson (1-0) had this
past weekend off, but defeated Northeastern Oklahoma A&M 48-27 in the season
opener on Aug. 29 in Miami, Okla. The Blue Dragons will play Highland (0-2,
0-1) in the home opener at 7 p.m. on Saturday night at Gowans Stadium.
Two other Jayhawk Conference
teams remain in the poll.
Preseason No. 1 Butler (1-1)
fell to No. 4 after losing to Blinn College on opening weekend. The
Grizzlies rebounded with a victory over Dodge City this past Saturday.
Fort Scott (2-0) is ranked
No. 9 after victories over Kilgore and Coffeyville.
Garden City (1-1) which was
ranked No. 22 in the preseason, fell out of the poll, but is receiving votes
after defeating Cisco, but losing to Air Force Prep this past Friday in
Colorado Springs, Colo.
The top three teams in this
week’s NJCAA/JC Football.com poll are Blinn (2-0), East Mississippi (2-0)
and Navarro (2-0).
NJCAA/JC Footballl.com
Football Poll
Record Pts.
Last Week
1. Blinn College,
TX 2-0 139 5
2. East Mississippi CC
2-0 130 6
3. Navarro College,
TX 2-0 129 7
4. Butler CC, Kan.
1-1
105 1
5. Pearl River CC,
MS 2-0
99 11
6. Trinity Valley CC,
TX 2-0 86 12
7.
Hutchinson 1-0
84 13
8. Dean College,
MA 1-0 81 9
9. Fort Scott CC,
KS 2-0 80 15
10. Eastern Arizona
College 1-0
73 10
11. Mississippi Gulf Coast
CC 1-1
71 2
12. Georgia Military
College 1-1
67 8
13. Snow College, UT
1-1 62 4
14. Ellsworth CC, IA
0-1 59 3
15. Northwest Mississippi
CC 2-0
57 19
16. Arizona Western
College 1-0
48 24
17. Rochester CTC,
MN 2-0
41 16
18. Iowa Central CC
1-1 23 20
19. Lackawanna College,
PA 1-0 17
17
20. Mesabi Range CTC,
MN 2-0
11 21
Others Receiving Votes: Scottsdale CC, AZ (1-0); Grand Rapids
CC, MI (2-0); Garden City CC, KS (1-1). |
