Honda Campus All-Star Challenge
The Honda Campus All-Star Challenge tournament will be held Monday, Sept. 21, through Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 6 p.m. in the Seby B. Jones Fine Arts Gallery. Staff members from the offices of Business and Finance and Institutional Advancement will play an exhibition game at 6 p.m. Wednesday. For more information, contact Dr. Sevealyn Smith at 919-516-4962, svsmith@st-aug.edu or Hermitage Building, Room 103.

Employee Giving kickoff event
The Office of Institutional Advancement and Development is pleased to announce the 2009 Employee Giving Campaign. Faculty and staff are encouraged to make a difference in the lives of our students by participating. Faculty and staff members are invited to attend a kickoff event on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the MLK Jr. Mall. In the event of rain, the kickoff will be in the MLK Jr. Building lobby. Employees who sign up on Oct. 1 will be entered into a prize drawing.

Director of White House HBCU Initiative to speak at convocation
Saint Augustine’s College will celebrate the official opening of the academic year during its 143rd Fall Convocation at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in the Martin Luther King Jr. Mall area. Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black College and Universities, will be the convocation speaker.

Office Max information session
The Office of Business and Finance, Auxiliary Services, is hosting a kickoff meeting with Office Max on Thursday, Sept. 29, in the MLK mini conference room. Office Max is the new vendor for office supplies. Catalogs will be issued to the staff along with gift bags for attendance. 

The session will take the staff through the new ordering process and provide online catalog search information. The meeting will be divided into a morning and afternoon session. Staff representatives only need to attend one session. RSVP to the Office of Procurement at 516-4064 for the morning or afternoon session. Details are listed below.
Morning session:  20 slots; 9-11 a.m.
Afternoon session: 20 slots; 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Join the Falcons in Charlotte
The Saint Augustine’s College Falcons will face the Bluefield College Rams at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 27, at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte. Tickets for the game are $30. Stay to see the Charlotte Bobcats play the Cleveland Cavaliers at 7 p.m. One $30 ticket gets you into both games. Tickets will be available in the Saint Augustine’s College cashier’s office in the Hunter Building. Tickets will also be available online. For more information, call 516-4343.

Costa named CIAA Coach of the Week
Head Coach Michael Costa was named CIAA Football Coach of the Week. Costa won after directing the Falcons to a 27-14 win over Virginia State over the weekend. The victory was the first for the Falcons this season.

This is the sixth time that Costa has been chosen as CIAA football coach of the week. He was named CIAA football coach of the year in 2003 and 2005.

Falcons trip VSU 27-14 for first victory
The Falcons snapped a three-game losing streak with a 27-14 victory over Virginia State University on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Broughton High School Stadium, but more importantly, the Falcons are 1-0 in the CIAA.

“It was a big game for us,” said tailback Walter Sanders (Jr./Baltimore, Md.), who led the Falcons with two rushing touchdowns. “Everybody came to play today.”

The Falcons (1-3 overall) overcame an early seven-point third-quarter deficit to stop the Trojans (2-2 overall, 0-1 CIAA). Sanders scored on a 10-yard run, and Adison Daniels (Jr./Raleigh, N.C.) kicked the extra point to tie the score at 14-14.

Tight end Jone’ Harris (Fairfield, Calif.) put the Falcons ahead 20-14 in the third quarter with a 61-yard touchdown catch from Joaquin Green (R-Fr./Pittsboro, N.C.). Harris made a beautiful one-handed grab on a short pass, sidestepped a couple of defenders and outraced the safety for the score.

Sanders scored the game-clinching touchdown with 9:43 in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard run. Daniels kicked the extra point for a 27-14 Falcons’ lead.

Saint Augustine’s College runs well at Wolfpack Invitational
Saint Augustine’s College finished fourth in the men’s race and fifth in the women’s race at the 2009 Wolfpack Invitational cross country meet at WakeMed Soccer Park on Friday, Sept. 18.

Johnny Shuping (Sr./Klerksdorp, South Africa) finished 13th with a time of 15:31 on the 5-kilometer course to lead the Falcon men, who scored 140 points. North Carolina State University was first with 24 points followed by the University of Maryland (45 points), and Winston-Salem State University (90). The Falcons beat North Carolina A&T State University (142), Shaw University (152), Barton College (174 points) and Saint Paul’s College (199).

The Lady Falcons scored 152 points to take fifth place. The University of Maryland won with 24 points, followed by North Carolina State University (38), North Carolina A&T State University (80), and Winston-Salem State University (123). The Lady Falcons beat Peace College (192), Barton College (199), Shaw University (204), Saint Paul’s College (235), and North Carolina Wesleyan (252).

Saint Augustine’s College will compete in the Greensboro Invitational in Greensboro, N.C., on Sept. 26.

This week’s games
Football
Saturday, Sept. 26 – Elizabeth City State University, 1:30 p.m., Broughton High School

Volleyball
Monday, Sept. 21 – Livingstone College, 6 p.m., Emery Gymnasium
Tuesday, Sept. 22 – Shaw University, 6 p.m., Emery Gymnasium
Thursday, Sept. 24 – Fayetteville State University, 6 p.m., Fayetteville, N.C.

Cross Country
Saturday, Sept. 26 – Greensboro Cross Country Invitational, Greensboro, N.C.