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November
2004 Football News Archive |
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Cardinals
Beat Central Florida 21-17 (11/13/2004) |
| UCF Leaves Muncie With
Losing Streak Intact.
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Ridgeway
Makes Final Three For Biletnikoff Award (11/16/2004) |
| Final Three - Dante Ridgeway
(Ball State), Braylon Edwards (Michigan), Taylor
Stubblefield (Purdue)
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FROM BALL
STATE SPORTS INFORMATION
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MUNCIE, Ind. -- Dante Ridgeway (Decatur,
Ill./Douglas MacArthur H.S.), a junior wide receiver
for the Ball State University football team, has been
selected as one three finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff
Award, which is presented annually to the nation’s
outstanding college football receiver by the Tallahassee
Quarterback Club Foundation.
Ridgeway ranks first in the NCAA in total
receiving yards (1,184), first in the country in
receptions per game (9.5) and second in the nation in
receiving yards per game (118.40). He has 95 catches this
season, which has set Ball State’s single-season record,
breaking the previous mark of 89, which he set last
season.
Among active receivers in the NCAA, Ridgeway
ranks first in receiving yards per game (82.8), first in
catches per game (6.7), fourth in receptions (228), sixth
in receiving yards (2,815) and tied for eighth in
touchdown receptions (21).
Ball State’s all-time receptions leader and career
receiving yards leader, Ridgeway become the only
player in Ball State history to manage two seasons with
1,000 receiving yards or more in a career after going over
the 1,000-yard mark earlier this season. He has had over
100 receiving yards in six of the last seven games. Ridgeway’s
228 career catches ranks fifth in the Mid-American
Conference record books, while his 2,815 career receiving
yards rank ninth in the MAC annals.
The other two finalists are Michigan’s Braylon
Edwards and Purdue’s Taylor Stubblefield. The winner of
the award will be announced Dec. 9 on the Home Depot
College Football Awards Show on ESPN. The annual awards
show is held at the Atlantic Dance Hall on "The
Boardwalk" at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., and
is hosted by Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso.
Ridgeway was selected as one of three finalists
from a list which also included David Anderson (Colorado
State), Mark Clayton (Oklahoma), Derek Hagan (Arizona
State), Chris Henry (West Virginia), Santonio Holmes (Ohio
State), Earvin Johnson (UNLV), Chad Owens (Hawaii) and
Troy Williamson (South Carolina).
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Football
Season Ends With 40-41 Loss To CMU (11/20/2004) |
| Cardinals squander 27 point
lead.
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Four Cardinals Named
First Team All MAC
(11/29/2004)
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FROM BALL STATE
SPORTS INFORMATION
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| Ball State senior safety Justin
Beriault (Indianapolis, Ind./Warren Central H.S.), senior punter
Reggie Hodges (Champaign, Ill./Centennial H.S.), junior wide
receiver Dante Ridgeway (Decatur, Ill./Douglas MacArthur H.S.)
and freshman tailback Adell Givens (Hamilton, Ohio/Hamilton H.S.)
were all named to the All-Mid-American Conference Football First Team,
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The four first-team selections for Ball
State mark the most for the Cardinals since the 1996 when BSU had
seven members selected.
Beriault, who was named to the second team in 2002, has been
selected to the first team for a second consecutive season after
leading the Cardinals in tackles with 125. He ranks second in the MAC
and 10th in the country in total tackles with only the bowl games
remaining in the 2004 season. Beriault, who started 45-of-46
games in his four-year career, also added five tackles for loss, one
interception, one pass breakup and one fumble recovery this season.
Hodges ranks second in the MAC and 26th in the nation in
punting with a 42.59 average. He had 73 punts for 3,109 yards and
pinned opponents inside the 20-yard line 25 times this season.
Hodges’ 3,109 punt yards in 2004 ranks as the second highest
single-season mark in Ball State history, while the 73 punts ranks as
the third highest single-season total. He set the Ball State career
record with 254 punts, while his 10,210 career punt yards rank second
in Ball State annals.
Ridgeway, who is one of three finalists for the Fred
Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s most outstanding receiver, leads the
country in receptions per game (9.55), receiving yards per game
(127.18) and total receiving yards (1,399). He set Ball State’s
single-season receptions record with 105, breaking the previous mark
of 89, which he set in 2003. Ridgeway also set the Ball State
single-season receiving yardage record, breaking the previous mark of
1,075 which he set in 2003. In addition, Ridgeway’s 105 catches
this year broke the MAC record of 103. Ridgeway, who will
attend the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on ESPN Dec. 9 when
the Biletnikoff Award winner is announced, currently ranks first among
active NCAA Division IA players in career receiving yards per game
(86.6) plus is second in career catches per game (6.9), fourth in
career catches (238), sixth in career receiving yards (3,030) and tied
for ninth in career touchdowns (22).
Givens, the first freshman named to the All-MAC First Team
since Marshall wide receiver Josh Davis in 2001, led the Cardinals and
ranks third in the conference with 96.3 rushing yards per game.
Givens rushed for 963 yards on 202 carries with six touchdowns in
2004. He ranks 28th in the nation in rushing and has the fourth
highest rushing average among the nation’s freshmen. Givens
became the first true freshman to start a game at tailback for the
Cardinals since Bernie Parmalee in 1987. Givens rushed for over
100 yards in each of the last five games in which he played in 2004.
With five 100-yard games, he is tied for sixth for most 100-yard games
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Adell Givens Named MAC
Freshman Of The Year
(11/30/2004)
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