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HCC Sports Information
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Hutchinson Community
College football team has its second-straight decisive win over the weekend
and move up one more notch in the latest NJCAA/JC Football.com national poll
releases on Tuesday.
The Blue Dragons moved up to
No. 6 after a 58-6 pounding of Highland in HCC’s home opener on Saturday.
The Dragons (2-0, 1-0 Jayhawk Conference) travel to Dodge City on Saturday
for a 7 p.m. kickoff at Memorial Stadium in Dodge City.
Hutchinson has now appeared
in seven consecutive national polls, the longest streak of being ranked
since a run of 27 consecutive polls from 1994 to 1996.
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 last week.
HCC is 2-0 to start a season
for the first time since 2004.
The Blue Dragons are the
NJCAA national leader in rushing once again this week, averaging 346.5 yards
per game on the ground. The Dragons are No. 8 in the nation in total offense
at 443.0 yards per game.
After leading the nation in
rushing for the first two weeks of the 2009 season, sophomore running back
Chris Clay is sixth in the nation at 147.5 yards per game. Freshman Chris
Anderson is 16th at 106.5 yards per game and he is tied for the national
lead in touchdowns with seven after his six-touchdown game against Highland
on Saturday night.
Three Jayhawk Conference
teams continue to reside in the Top 8 of the NJCAA. Butler, despite a 17-0
victory over Garden City on Saturday, dropped one spot to fifth. Fort Scott
moved up one spot to eighth. Fort Scott had its bye week this week.
2009 NJCAA/JC
FOOTBALL.COM FOOTBALL POLL
Record
Points Last week
1. Blinn
College 3-0
139 1
2. East
Mississippi 3-0
133 2
3. Navarro
College 2-0 127
3
4. Pearl
River 3-0
107 5
5.
Butler 2-1
106 4
6.
Hutchinson
2-0 101 7
7. Trinity
Valley 2-0
96 6
8. Fort
Scott 2-0
87 9
9T. Eastern
Arizona 2-0 86
10
9T. Dean
College 2-0
86 8
11. Snow
College 2-1
60 13
12. Arizona
Western 2-0 58 16
13. Mississippi Gulf
Coast 2-1
56 11
13.
Ellsworth 1-1
56 14
15. Rochester CTC
3-0 38 17
16. Grand
Rapids 3-0 36
RV
17. Lackawanna
College 2-0 30 19
18. Joliet Junior
College
3-0 20 NR
19. Northwest
Mississippi 2-1
12 15
20.
Scottsdale 1-1
9 RV
Others Receiving Votes:
Georgia Military (1-2); Coahoma, Miss. (3-0); Central Lakes-Brainerd (3-0);
Tyler Junior College (2-0); Louisburg College (2-0); Iowa Central (1-1). |
