Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA athletes fail to qualify
- UA’s Alexis Cooks wins discus with school-record throw
- Seven KSU baseball players earn All-MAC honors
- Marla Ridenour: From walk-on to champion: UA’s Alex McCune finds his niche
- KSU’s Jennifer Ha struggles to 79 in first round of NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
- Zips notebook: Quincy Diggs back in school; football player arrested
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 1: Flashes top Zips, get help from Bowling Green to win MAC title, earn top seed in tournament
- On the Record — May 18
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
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Football
I never would have guessed it after how the team has played this season, but the Zippers are in first place in the MAC East after beating Bowling Green 24-14.
Sure, BG was without its star quarterback Omar Jacobs (separated non-throwing shoulder), but Akron still played a solid game. Our football reporter Adam Ferrise, who was at the game at BG, says the game would have been much closer if Jacobs played. (Jacobs, by the way, was the first-overall pick in my fantasy college football draft.)
The Zips will finish the season with three winable games against Ball State, Ohio and Kent State. Win two and they are bowl eligible. Win three and they lock up the division.
Linebacker Jay Rohr (10 tackles and forced fumble at goalline) and running back Brett Biggs (159 yards, two touchdowns) get the game balls.
Just when we thought the men's soccer team had stolen the show, the football team steps it up. Congrats on a big win, Zips.
