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Belhaven Soccer

This Saturday the Belhaven men's soccer team will be playing their initial round in the national tournament on Riverside. Details from Dr. Parrott's blog:

They have earned a 2nd consecutive berth in the national tourney, and 8th in program history.

We are a 13 seed in the 32 team national field, and there are 4 SSAC schools in the tourney.

We finished the season 15-4-0, and ranked 18th nationally.

Belhaven will host Texas-Brownsville Saturday at 2:00 pm at Newell Field. When we win that and we go to the round of 16 at Orange Beach, Alabama, Nov. 28 – Dec. 3

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New Belhaven Coach

Joe Thrasher will be the new head football coach at Belhaven College. Joe was a solid student leader when at Belhaven, was assistant coach there for a while. Here is the story from the Clarion Ledger.

Joseph Thrasher, a former Belhaven College football player and assistant coach, was named the NAIA school's new head football coach on Thursday.

Thrasher spent the last three seasons as head coach and assistant athletic director at NAIA Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla.

The Warriors, 12-20 during Thrasher's tenure, went from 1-9 in 2006 to 7-4 in 2008.

Belhaven will formally introduce Thrasher at a press conference in Barber Auditorium on the campus Monday at 1 p.m.

Thrasher replaces Don Lee, who resigned last month to return to his alma mater, Olivet Nazarene. The Blazers went 2-9 last season, Lee's fourth as the head coach.

Thrasher was an assistant under Lee during Lee's first two seasons as BC's head coach and played for the Blazers from 1998-2000, the first three years of the program.

He coached at Mississippi School for the Deaf in Jackson from 2001-03. He led the school to three straight deaf school national championships and was named national coach of the year in 2001 and 2002.

And here is a little more information from the official Belhaven release.

Prior to his time at Bacone, Thrasher was an Assistant Coach and Assistant to the Athletics Director at Belhaven College from 2004-2006. Thrasher’s duties included working with the Blazer Quarterbacks, serving as Head Coach of the Blazer Junior Varsity team, fundraising, and serving as Ministry Coordinator for the Athletics department. Thrasher is also a former player and Alumnus of Belhaven College, having played three seasons as a Blazer from 1998-2000.

After Graduating from Belhaven, Thrasher spent his first three years as the head coach at the Mississippi School for the Deaf in Jackson. He led the school to three straight Deaf National Championships from 2001-2003 and was named National Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2002.

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Belhaven College's New Marching Band

The Angelic Band from Blazer Land

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Ole Miss Funny

Yohan and some others may like this funny post from a local blog. Ole Miss fans should not read it.

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Trinity 28 Millsaps 24

I've been very busy the past 7 weeks or so. But wanted to be sure y'all saw this from Saturday. Trinity beat Millsaps on a play involving 15 lateral passes for a touchdown.

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