Friday---June 10, 2011

I received an E-mail from Jason Cherry. He's going to hang up his cleats as kicker in professional indoor football. Jason played seven seasons for six different teams, including the Arizona Rattlers and the Columbus Destroyers. He ended up with 430 points and 32 tackles (a statistic, he says, kickers are not enthusiastic about). His totals included the first successful extra point drop kick in the AIFA league.

Jason is still tied for the most PAT in a post season game (seven against Georgia Southern 1998). He's third in all time UMass career field goal percentage (.681 15-22 1998-2000)

He and his wife welcomed Margaret Penrose Cherry (UMass class of 2023) into their life on April 19th, 2011. He says he's still a UMass fan and hopes to go to some of the MAC games when UMass plays Akron or Toledo.

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Eagles Blog "BC Interruption" adds UMass to his hate index.

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UMaine is concerned about future conference affiliation.

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The Charolette 49ers might end up in the CAA now that the Big South and the Southern Conference have turned down Charolette's bid to join those two leagues.

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Austin Lane, a 6-6 304 pd OL lineman for Syracuse picked the Orange over the Minutemen.

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