A last-minute academic casualty and previously hinted-at attrition will leave the Colorado State men’s basketball team with just seven scholarship players this season.
The school announced that spring signee Donte Poole, a 6-foot-2 guard from Las Vegas, is academically ineligible under NCAA guidelines. Additionally, the school confirmed senior guard Tyler Smith, a part-time starter last season, and freshman recruit Stephen Franklin, an all- state player at Aurora Central, will not join the team. Franklin was charged this summer with felony identification theft and will enroll at a Utah junior college. Smith did not attend summer school or offseason workouts.
First-year coach Tim Miles did not return calls.
– Natalie Meisler
CCU women’s soccer team falls in opener
The Colorado Christian University women’s soccer team fell to Northern State of Aberdeen, S.D., in its season opener 2-1 in double overtime.
Carly Nixon scored the lone goal for the Cougars, who were outshot 19-12 by Northern State.
DU gymnast Lopez to compete at Worlds
University of Denver gymnast Jessica Lopez will compete in the World Gymnastics Championships in Stutt- gart, Germany. Lopez will compete for Venezuela, her native country. Gymnasts competing in the tournament, which begins Sunday, will earn a spot on teams for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
