49ers' Roberts makes 2nd team freshman AA team

Charlotte pitcher Corey Roberts was named to Baseball America's freshman All-American second team.

Roberts, who played at Charlotte's Olympic High, led the 49ers with six victories and also led the Atlantic 10 with a 3.81 ERA and also made the league's all-freshman team.

49ers make staff changes

The Charlotte 49ers made some moves in the athletics department Friday:

-- Chris Thomasson was promoted to associate athletics director in charge of compliance and championships. Thomasson has been with the 49ers since 2005.

-- Hudson Jacobs has been named video coordinator for men's and women's basketball. He had been administrative assistant for the women's basketball and volleyball teams and is a former student manager for N.C. State's women's basketball team.

-- Scott Byrd was named assistant director of compliance. A North Carolina graduate, he's a former director of compliance at N.C. State and was a compliance specialist at Wake Forest.

-- Jesse Garber was named assistant ticket manager.

Goetschius wins bronze

Charlotte's Amanda Goetschius won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the NACACA Under-23 Championships at Miramar, Fla., today. Goetschius, a rising senior for the 49ers, had a time of 37:18.81 minutes. Goetschius was an All-American in the 5,000 meters for the 49ers last season.

Update: Nagy splits Palmer Cup matches

Former 49ers golfer Corey Nagy and Scott Langley lost to Europe's Henrik Norlander and Pontus Widegren 4 and 3 in this morning's four-ball at the Palmer Cup at Ireland's Royal Portrush Golf Club.

The competition is tied at 2-2 after the morning's matches. Nagy and Langley are playing Norlander and Widegreen in foursomes this afternoon.

UPDATE: Nagy and Langley beat Norlander and Widegreen in the foursomes, helping the U.S. take a 6-2 lead after the first day.

49ers' women open with Iona

The Charlotte 49ers' women's basketball team will open its season Nov.
13 with a Preseason WNIT game against Iona.

The winner of the 5 p.m. game will face the winner of the Florida-Central Florida game Nov. 15. That's a potential matchup with former 49ers coach Amanda Butler, who is at Florida.

49ers hire familiar name as men's tennis coach

Billy Boykin -- son of recently the recently retired Jim Boykin -- is the 49ers' new men's tennis coach.

Billy Boykin has been the tennis coach at Richmond the past two seasons and was previously men's and women's coach at College of Charleston. Before that, Boykin was an assistant at Davidson, where he played in college.

Boykin replaces his dad, who retired earlier this year after 17 seasons at Charlotte. The 49ers will begin construction on a new tennis center later this year. -- David Scott

49ers' Law makes Academic All-American

Charlotte's Darius Law, an NCAA indoor track all-America in 400 meters, has been named to ESPN The Magazine's academic All-American first team.

Law has a 4.0 GPA and is a business management major. He was named the Arthur Ashe National Scholar-Athlete of the Year and is a two-time Atlantic 10 Indoor and Outdoor student-athlete of the year.

Three other 49ers -- golf's Corey Nagy, men's soccer's Adam Gross and women's soccer's Hailey Beam -- have also been named to academic all-American teams.