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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The FGCU men's golf team is in 10^th place midway through the second round of the VyStar Credit Union Gators Invitational at the University of Florida. Play was suspended late Saturday due to inclement weather, with all 14 competing teams still on the course.

The Eagles posted a 7-over 287 in Saturday's first round, and were on the 12^th hole in the second round when play was called for the evening. The Green & Blue will conclude the second round Sunday morning starting at 9 a.m., with the 18-hole final round set for later in the day.

"I'm really proud of our team. It was a challenging day out there on the course," said FGCU head men's golf coach Andrew Danna. "We are looking forward to another opportunity to compete (Sunday)."

Senior Pierre Viallaneix (Apopka, Fla./Winter Park HS/Western Carolina) and junior Austin Cherichella (Orlando, Fla./Lake Nona HS) each carded even-par rounds of 70 on Saturday morning to tie for 18^th. Cherichella made three birdies and three bogeys in his first round, and Viallaneix made two birdies and two bogeys.

Fifth-year Jon Hopkins (Bishop's Stortford, England/Hockerill Anglo-European College/Mississippi Gulf Coast CC) recorded an opening-round 1-over 71 to tie for 26^th. Freshman Sam Baker (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) began with a 6-over 76 and was in 76^th, and junior Thomas Salanito (Palm Harbor, Fla./Clearwater Central Catholic) opened with a 9-over 79 and 79^th.

The Eagles were collectively 2-over par when play was suspended. Viallaneix was 2-under through 12 holes and climbed to a tie for 11th, while Salanito was 1-under during his round. Florida leads the field at 13-under and is through 15 holes in the second round. Florida's 'B' team is in second at 12-under, followed by Liberty (-9), Georgia Southern (-8) and North Florida (-4).

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TEAMS: FAU #51 FGCU #8 Florida Florida "B" #25 Georgia Southern Jacksonville Kennesaw State #37 Liberty #35 North Florida North Texas Penn State #59 Stetson USF West Virginia

HEAD COACH ANDREW DANNA Danna is in his fourth year at the helm of the men's golf program with the Eagles earning FGCU's first-ever NCAA Tournament at-large berth in department history during the 2022 season. He has led the Eagles to second-place finishes at the 2021 and 2022 ASUN Championships and was named the program's first-ever ASUN Coach of the Year (2021) and repeated in 2022. One of the best turnarounds in NCAA history saw the Green and Blue, led by Van Holmgren who became the first player to earn PING All-Region honors, jump from No. 257 in the final 2019-20 GolfStat.com rankings to a then program-best 65 to close out 2020-21. The Eagles set a new program-best during the 2022 season at No. 47 in the GolfStat.com rankings. Holmgren won the ASUN Championship individual title to qualify for the NCAA Regionals. Before taking over in Fort Myers, he served the 2018-19 season as the assistant at LSU. Prior to that he was the ultra-successful head coach for six years at Lynn University where he led them to the 2018 NCAA Division II national championship and was, subsequently, chosen the David Williams National Coach of the Year. He also led the Fighting Knights to three national runner-up placements, with a third and eighth place finish in his other two seasons.

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ABOUT FGCU FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 94 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 15-plus seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 11-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 47 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the men's golf team became the first program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. Eight FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport - including women's basketball (No. 20, 2021-22 and No. 25 in 2022-23) beach volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as four of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green & Blue posted a department-best sixth-place finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors' Cup and top-100 showing nationally, ahead of several Power-5 and FBS institutions. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida best seven teams earn the NCAA's Public Recognition Award for their Academic Progress Rate in their sport. FGCU also collectively earned a record 3.66 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 27 consecutive semesters. The past seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2022) saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative team GPA. The Eagles also served an all-time high 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 - being recognized as one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award presented by the Fiesta Bowl.

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BOONE, N.C. – The App State women's basketball team fell to Georgia Southern, 84-73, in its Play4Kay Pink Game on Saturday.

"I thought the start of the fourth quarter is really where Georgia Southern took control of the game," said head coach Angel Elderkin. "They went 5-for-7 and we went 16 percent, 1-for-6, and probably after they went two shots I should have called a timeout. I was hoping we were going to score and call a timeout, but I thought that stretch hurt us. I thought our kids came back and pressed, had a little bit more urgency. We were able to make a run late, but I just think it comes down to the little things.

"You guys ask me every week 'what are you going to do about your rebounding?' We are who we are, and so, if we're going to give up some rebounds, we can't shoot 50 percent from the free throw line."

Junior Faith Alston led the team with a season-high 21 points, draining 3-of-4 from beyond the arc while dishing out a team-high four assists. In her 13 minutes on court, sophomore Zada Porter contributed 12 points and three rebounds. Senior Taylor Lewis and graduate student Brooke Bigott netted eight points apiece. Sophomore Mariah Frazier pulled down a team-high seven rebounds while being a pillar in the Mountaineers' defense.

App State scored 26 points off the bench, 24 points in the paint and 15 fast-break points. The Black and Gold held the Eagles to a total of four treys over the course of the game.

Alston netted eight of the Mountaineers' 15 points in the first quarter, opening the game with a pair of treys as App State took a 6-4 lead. Bigott sunk a 3-point bucket of her own, freshman Alexis Black contributed a pair of free throws and Porter made a layup as App State trailed 18-15 at the end of the quarter.

Redshirt junior A'Lea Gilbert made back-to-back layups to bring App State within two of Georgia Southern's lead (22-20). Midway through the quarter, the Mountaineers went on an 8-0 scoring run with Alston and Lewis making layups and Porter drilling a 3-point basket as well as a free throw. Georgia Southern fought back, and despite a jumper from Bigott, took a 37-31 lead at the half.

Sophomore Emily Carver opened the third quarter with a second-chance trey, which was followed up by a jumper from redshirt senior Janay Sanders and 3-point bucket from Bigott, cutting into the Eagles' 46-39 lead. Lewis drained back-to-back 3-point buckets to bring the Black and Gold within four of Georgia Southern's 50-46 lead. Despite a jumper from Alston, free throws from Sanders and Gilbert, and a late layup from Frazier, App State trailed Georgia Southern, 59-53, at the close of the period.

Early in the final quarter, Alston landed a trey and Sanders tallied another free throw before the Mountaineers faced a scoring drought. With 3:55 left to play, Porter broke the drought with a trey. Porter later posted back-to-back field goals.

COACH ELDERKIN ON PLAY4KAY "I think it's been special to join with High Country Breast Cancer Foundation because growing up in the profession I was really close with Kay Yow and have done so much with Kay Yow. So when I started on my journey at App, it was Play4Kay and then we crossed paths with Irene Sawyer and her foundation and we have a bond, being survivors. To be able to join forces and have Kay Yow and our community, I think makes for a really special day. And Georgia Southern, I love Anita, I think she does a great job. We always match up with them and she's like 'I hate playing you on Play4Kay day.' I think it's awesome, we wear these Power of One shirts and it really represents one team, one vision, one goal. It's a special day, but it's even more special when you have a community behind you."

UP NEXT The Mountaineers will go on their final regular season road trip, making stops at Norfolk, Va. and Troy, Ala. App State will take on Old Dominion at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 and Troy at 5 p.m. ET on Feb. 18. Both games will be available to stream on ESPN+.

SEATTLE – Playing their third top-10 opponent in three days, the Husky women's tennis team again showed it can hang with some of the nation's best teams, but UW could not create quite enough chances tonight against 4th-ranked Duke, as the Blue Devils earned the 4-1 win.

Washington ended its play at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships with a 1-2 record, getting a win over 9th-ranked Vanderbilt, and falling to No. 1 Texas and No. 4 Duke. Monday, North Carolina and Georgia will compete for the championship at 12 noon at the Nordstrom Tennis Center.

Washington played its best doubles of the season to earn the early lead. At the three spot, Sarah-Maude Fortin and Jennifer Kerr lost the first game to Jackson/Bryzgalova, but then reeled off six games in a row for the 6-1 win. On court number two, Hikaru Sato and Zehra Suko broke serve to take a 5-3 lead over the 25th-ranked tandem of Coleman/Berankova. Sato then held serve to finish it, 6-3, and clinch the point. The No. 1 match went unfinished with Erika Matsuda and Astrid Olsen down 3-5 to Duke's 14th-ranked top pair.

In singles, the Huskies were in it early, but Duke had a surge midway through the first sets to take the momentum. The Blue Devils have three singles players ranked in the top-28 nationally, and the visitors grabbed all six first sets in singles by either 6-4 or 6-3 scores.

The Huskies wouldn't give in, and were doing all they could to force their way into third sets and extend the match. But Duke put away two matches on courts three and five, as Astrid Olsen fell to Georgia Drummy at three, 6-3, 6-4, and Melissa Sakar lost, 6-3, 6-3, on five to Ellie Coleman.

At No. 2 singles, Sarah-Maude Fortin was down 3-6, 0-3 to 28th-ranked Cameron Morra, but Fortin rallied back and broke serve to get even at 5-5 in the second set. Next to Fortin, on court four, Jennifer Kerr had gone from 4-5 down to up 6-5 in her second set against 21st-ranked Emma Jackson. And Hikaru Sato was also looking to force a third, at 5-5 in her second set against 5th-ranked Chloe Beck.

Meanwhile, Erika Matsuda was the first Husky to get a set, as she went to a third against Iulia Bryzgalova on No. 6.

But Duke proved too tough tonight. Fortin's comeback was ended, 6-3, 7-5, against Morra, for the third point. Kerr was in a tiebreak and leading 4-2 in the breaker on court four, but Sato fell short, 6-4, 7-5, against Beck to bring the match to a close. Matsuda was at 2-3 in her third set at the conclusion.

Washington will look to grow from what it learned this weekend, as several more top-25 matches will be coming right up. After a week off, the Huskies go to Waco, Texas on Feb. 24-25 to play at Baylor, the first team in the receiving votes category of the top-25, and then a neutral site match with 17th-ranked San Diego, which also competed in Seattle this weekend but not against the Dawgs.

Washington Women's Tennis ITA National Team Indoor Championships – Back Draw February 12, 2023 Seattle, Wash. | Nordstrom Tennis Center

Washington – 1 #4 Duke – 4

Singles 1. (#5) Chloe Beck (Duke) def. Hikaru Sato (UW) – 6-4, 7-5 2. (#28) Cameron Morra (Duke) def. Sarah-Maude Fortin (UW) – 6-3, 7-5 3. Georgia Drummy (Duke) def. Astrid Olsen (UW) – 6-3, 6-4 4. Jennifer Kerr (UW) vs. (#21) Emma Jackson (Duke) – 3-6, 6-6 (4-2), DNF 5. Ellie Coleman (Duke) def. Melissa Sakar (UW) – 6-3, 6-3 6. Erika Matsuda (UW) vs. Iuliia Bryzgalova (Duke) – 4-6, 6-3, 2-3, DNF Order of finish: 5, 3, 2, 1

Doubles 1. Matsuda/Olsen (UW) vs. (#14) Beck/Morra (Duke) – 3-5, DNF 2. Sato/Suko (UW) def. (#25) Coleman/Berankova (Duke) – 6-3 3. Fortin/Kerr (UW) def. Jackson/Bryzgalova (Duke) – 6-1 Order of finish: 3, 2

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The most formative musical memory of my youth occurred 30,000 feet over central California in the summer of 1989. I was almost 17, flying on a school trip from L.A. to the Bay Area, and popped into my Walkman was an album I had just picked up from my local record store, Moby Disc: De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising. When the cassette reached "Eye Know," about midway through Side A, I sat transfixed in my seat. I had never heard anything like this before: an earnest rap song about love that wasn't a sappy radio ballad (no offense, LL Cool J), set to a delicious groove that merged '60s soul and '70s art pop. Part of me wanted to take my headphones off and share the song with one of my classmates but the part that was selfish won out. When the track ended, I rewound and played it again. And again. And again. "Eye Know" wasn't the first rap song I ever heard but it was the first that sparked an interest to explore the music and culture behind it. As with many others who discovered hip-hop in that same era, that private epiphany changed my life's trajectory.

We learned yesterday that one of the group's core members — David Jolicoeur, aka Trugoy the Dove, aka Plug Two — has come to the end of his own journey at the age of 54. As of this time, no cause of death has been announced, but in 2017, Jolicoeur revealed that he was suffering from congestive heart problems. On February 5, when De La Soul was feted as part of this year's Grammy Awards' celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary, Trugoy was conspicuously absent from the proceedings.

Like the rest of the group, including Kelvin "Posdnuos" Mercer, Vincent "P.A. Mase" Mason and their mentor "Prince Paul" Houston, Jolicoeur grew up in the Long Island village of Amityville; all four men met while attending Amityville Memorial High School. Their middle class, suburban roots were an important part of their difference from most of the hip-hop landscape of the mid- and late-1980s when rap music was still associated with gritty, urban 'hoods like Compton in Los Angeles or New York's South Bronx and Queensbridge Projects.

The leading MCs who hailed from those areas were mostly brash braggarts with super-sized personalities: Think Big Daddy Kane, Run DMC, LL Cool J or Ice Cube. By comparison, Trugoy and his group-mates looked downright bookish, wearing "black medallions, no gold," and possessed of irreverent wit and cutting humor that became the group's calling card. Dante Ross, who helped manage them after they signed to Tommy Boy Records in 1987, told Check the Technique author Brian Coleman in 2007, "when De La Soul came in the game, there was just a changing of the guard. The gold chains and the macho s*** just wasn't all that anymore."

Trugoy, in particular, felt like the group's irrepressible id, the embodiment of De La's D.A.I.S.Y. (Da Inner Soul Ya'll) Age ethos of the time with his floppy dreads and gap-tooth smile. Both he and Posdnuos were skillful MCs, but while his rhyming partner possessed a sharp, precise flow and more topical songwriting, there was a care-free charisma to how Trugoy carried himself on mic. Chris "Thes One" Portugal, of the L.A. rap duo People Under the Stairs, grew up on De La's music too, and he described Trugoy to me as possessing a "leader of the outsiders vibe," observing that the "effortless cool of his verses magnified our assumptions of [the group's] character: laid back and loose."

Over the course of their early albums, beginning with Three Feet High and Rising and continuing with De La Soul Is Dead in 1991, Buhloone Mindstate in 1993 and Stakes Is High in 1996, De La became avatars for future generations of hip-hop nerds and geeks inspired by the group's commitment to creativity and cleverness. Brooklyn's Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), who also idolized De La Soul as a teenager, explained to me in 1999: "They weren't just arbitrarily creative. They were really intense with mad thought and focus. [No one] thought hip hop could be like that."

The group recorded steadily from 1989 through 2001, when they released AOI: Bionix, the last of their six albums for Tommy Boy. They shifted to an independent model after that and their output slowed considerably, releasing just two albums after 2004, most recently the crowd-funded "And the Anonymous Nobody..." in 2016. For all their humor, the group spent decades waging serious battles with the music industry, partly around their sampling practices, and mostly with Tommy Boy. One legacy of those disagreements with the label has been the absence of most of their albums from legal streaming services, an unfathomable void in the age of the infinite jukebox. This travesty is finally being rectified on March 3rd, but it's a sad, cruel irony that Trugoy should pass away mere days before the indefensibly delayed return of his and De La's music to the masses. Normally, the death of a beloved musical artist leads people to dive back into their catalogs, sharing favorite songs with others. The basic gestures we normally take for granted are impossible right now because of De La's absence from common of streaming sites.

On the other hand, it also means that the next couple of weeks can serve as a celebration of Trugoy's life and legacy, culminating on March 3 when so much of De La's best work will finally be available again. I've had the benefit of having their old tapes, CDs and vinyl recordings on hand to revisit all these years but it's the potential new fans who will benefit the most from De La's long-delayed digital debut. It's hard to imagine a more fitting tribute to Trugoy than for a next generation of listeners to sit with his music and potentially have their own life's trajectories set anew.

Oliver Wang is a Los Angeles-based culture writer and professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Grand View (Iowa) now leads the NAIA Men's Wrestling Coaches' Top 20 Poll for the seventh straight rankings period this year. With the rest of the Top Five remaining the same, the biggest movement comes from Morningside (Iowa) and Cumberlands (Ky.) each leaping four spots. The Cascade and Mid-South Conferences lead the way with five institutions each represented.

NAIA Men's Wrestling Final Rankings Rank/Last/Team/Conference/Points 1 1 Grand View (Iowa) Heart 300 2 2 Life University (Ga.) Appalachian 276 3 3 Southeastern (Fla.) Appalachian 242 4 4 Doane (Neb.) Great Plains 181 5 5 Indiana Tech Wolverine-Hoosier 173 6 7 Marian University ((Ind.) Wolverine-Hoosier 164 7 6 Menlo (Calif.) Cascade 157 8 8 Eastern Oregon Cascade 147 9 9 Providence (Mont.) Cascade 126 10 14 Morningside (Iowa) Great Plains 123 11 10 Reinhardt (Ga.) Appalachian 120 12 11 Ottawa (Kan.) Kansas Collegiate 117 13 12 Campbellsville (Ky.) Mid-South 98 14 13 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Mid-South 86 15 15 Cumberland (Tenn.) Mid-South 82 16 20 Cumberlands (Ky.) Mid-South 77 17 18 Thomas More (Ky.) Mid-South 74 18 16 Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) Cascade 73 19 17 Baker (Kan.) Heart 72 20 18 Missouri Valley Heart 70 20 RV Montana State-Northern Cascade 70 Dropped From Poll: None Receiving Votes: Southern Oregon 66; Oklahoma City 57; Central Methodist (Mo.) 48; Lourdes (Ohio) 46; Vanguard (Calif.) 46; Keiser (Fla.) 36; Saint Mary (Kan.) 36; Briar Cliff (Iowa) 33; Graceland (Iowa) 32; Corban (Ore.) 30; Cornerstone (Mich.) 26; Avila (Mo.) 23; Brewton-Parker (Ga.) 22; Midway (Ky.) 20; Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) 19; Oklahoma Wesleyan 16; William Penn (Iowa) 16; Rochester (Mich.) 14; Concordia (Neb.) 13; Montreat (N.C.) 13; Wayland Baptist (Texas) 13; Benedictine (Kan.) 7; St. Thomas (Fla.) 6; St. Ambrose (Iowa) 5; Pikeville (Ky.) 4; Waldorf (Iowa) 4; Missouri Baptist 3; Texas esleyan 3; York (Neb.) 3; Dickinson State (N.D.) 2

Individual Rankings

Top-Ranked Individuals 125 – Esco Walker, Grand View (Iowa) 133 – Carson Taylor, Grand View (Iowa) 141 – Baterdene Boldmaa, Doane (Neb.) 149 – Ryan Moore, Thomas More (Ky.) 157 – Giovanni Bonilla, Grand View (Iowa) 165 – Jack Bass, Life (Ga.) 174 – Isaiah Luellen, Grand View (Iowa) 184 – Eric Vermillion, Indiana Tech 197 – Zane Lanham, Life (Ga.) 285 – Greg Hagan, Grand View (Iowa)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Life (Ga.) overtakes the number one ranking in the newest Yes! Athletics NAIA Women's Wrestling Coaches' Top 20 Poll. Grand View (Iowa) falls to second place, Southern Oregon remains in third, with Menlo (Calif.) and Cumberlands (Ky.) switch spots at fourth and fifth. Hastings (Neb.) is back in the poll after a one cycle hiatus replacing Waldorf (Iowa).

NAIA Women's Rankings No. 5 Rank/Last/Team/Conference/Points 1 2 Life (Ga.) Mid-South 197 2 1 Grand View (Iowa) Heart 193 3 3 Southern Oregon Cascade 178 4 5 Menlo (Calif.) Cascade 157 5 4 Cumberlands (Ky.) Mid-South 139 6 6 Texas Wesleyan Sooner 129 7 11 Central Methodist (Mo.) Heart 123 8 7 Providence (Mont.) Cascade 121 9 10 Indiana Tech Mid-South 110 10 9 Iowa Wesleyan Heart 98 11 13 Missouri Baptist Sooner 95 12 12 Missouri Valley Heart 88 13 8 Campbellsville (Ky.) Mid-South 86 14 15 Eastern Oregon Cascade 75 15 14 Brewton-Parker (Ga.) Mid-South 64 16 RV Hastings (Neb.) Kansas Collegiate 48 17 17 Midland (Neb.) Kansas Collegiate 46 18 20 Baker (Kan.) Heart 44 19 16 Oklahoma City Sooner 39 20 18 Doane (Neb.) Kansas Collegiate 37 Dropped From Poll: Waldorf (Iowa) Receiving Votes: Saint Mary (Kan.) 31; Ottawa (Kan.) 28; Siena Heights (Mich.) 26; Jamestown (N.D.) 26; Wayland Baptist (Texas) 24; Waldorf (Iowa) 23; Friends (Kan.) 21; Lourdes (Ohio) 20; Jarvis Christian (Texas) 11; St. Andrews (N.C.) 11; Montreat (N.C.) 9; Avila (Mo.) 8; William Penn (Iowa) 5; Vanguard (Calif.) 3

Individual Rankings

Top-Ranked Individuals 101 – Ira Navarro, Providence (Mont.) 109 – Peyton Prussin, Life (Ga.) 116 – Ashley Gooman, Providence (Mont.) 123 – Carolina Moreno, Southern Oregon 130 – Lexie Basham, Texas Wesleyan 136 – Adaugo Nwachukwu, Iowa Wesleyan 143 – Alexis Gomez, Grand View (Iowa) 155 – Latifah McBryde, Life (Ga.) 170 – Dymond Guilford, Cumberlands (Ky.) 191 – Kelani Corbett, Missouri Valley