ECU to donate bowl tickets

Military benefits from fans' gifts

East Carolina football fans are buying tickets to their team's bowl game in Hawaii, but they are donating them to military personnel who expect to spend time there during the Christmas holiday.

Assistant athletic director for ticketing and marketing Scott Wetherbee said ECU wants to be sure someone will sit in its seats for the Sheraton Aloha Bowl on Dec. 23 in Honolulu by buying tickets and donating them to active members of the service.

"We know were not going to take 5,000 fans to Hawaii," Wetherbee said.

Hawaii Bowl Executive Director Jim Donovan had contacts with all five branches of the armed services, Wetherbee said, and the idea was to give those stationed on the islands -- preferably those not from Hawaii -- a chance to request tickets to the game.

MORE FOOTBALL

GAMECOCKS PLAYER STABBED: South Carolina football player Jordin Lindsey had his neck slashed during a weekend altercation near the school campus, police said.

Lindsey, a defensive end for the Gamecocks who could not play this season because of low grades, was cut early Saturday morning by a man wielding a sharp object, possibly a broken bottle, a police report said. Lindsey was fighting with one of two attackers when his neck was cut, the report said.

Lindsey's father, Billy, said his son needed surgery but was to be released from the hospital Sunday, according to a report by The (Columbia, S.C.) State.

BASKETBALL

ASSISTS RECORD: David N. Arseneault shattered the NCAA assists record when he had 34 in Grinnell College's 151-112 win over North Central University of Minnesota in a Division III game Saturday.

The previous record of 26 was set in 1989 by Robert James of Division III Kean University. The Division I record is 22.

(The Associated Press)

TRACK AND FIELD

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT OPEN: St. Augustine's opened its men's and women's indoor track and field season with victories in 11 events Saturday.

Four Falcons won two events each: Sharif Nash (men's 60- and 200-meter dashes), Alvin Miles (men's 400, 4x400 relay), Chayce Smith (men's 3,000, 1-mile run) and Sharona Brown (women's 800, 4x400 relay).

(From St. Aug's News Release)