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(06/15/14 10:20pm)
Seven Tigers earned All-American honors, including three first-team honors, while Auburn's men team finished tied for 24th at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
"I'm very pleased with the way this young group competed this year," Auburn head coach Ralph Spry said. "I feel like we got the right pieces of the puzzle in place because when you got freshmen that are qualifying for national championships and conference championships you can tell you got the right kind of talent that's going to be good for you the next three or four years."
True freshman Khalil Henderson (200m), senior Stephen Saenz (shot put) and senior DJ Smith (high jump) each received first-team honors.
Saenz finished fifth in the men's shot put with a best throw of 64-10.75/19.78m on the first day of the tournament and had a comeback season after missing most of the 2013 outdoor season with a torn pectoral muscle.
Henderson was the only freshman that advanced to the finals on the second day of the men's 200m after running a 20.77 and finishing third in his heat.
Smith finished sixth in the men's high jump with a season-best height of 7-2\0xBD (2.20m) on the third day.
Henderson finished with a personal-best time of 20.61, good enough for sixth place in the men's 200m sprint on the final day at the Championships.
"To do your personal-best any time is great, but to do it on that national stage is incredible for young athletes," Spry said.
His sixth-place finish was the best by an Auburn athlete in the 200m since 2012 and the fifth time in the last six years a Tiger has been in the finals of the event.
The men finished the meet with 10 points tying for 24th place overall, the program's 10th top 25 finish in the last 15 years.
"We got a lot of young talent and I just feel good about the direction things are going right now, Spry said."
Earning second-team All-America honors were Justin Carter, Rachel Dincoff, Valentina Muzaric, and Samantha Scarlett.
Carter finished 13th in the men's javelin with a mark of 215-8 (65.75m) on Saturday.
Muzaric and Dincoff missed advancing to the finals after finishing 10th and 14th in the women's shot put.
Inexperience has been a little bit of a setback for a young Auburn group, but Spry believes those are things they will be able to work through.
"A lot of success this year has been with our young athletes, freshman and sophomores. They got the experience now and are going to be leaders next year, Spry said."
(06/09/14 8:00pm)
For most siblings, after they grow into mature adults, their petty childhood rivalries stay in the past.
On the other hand, the competition will always be there for me with my younger sister Hope.
One of our favorite games to compete against each other in is H.O.R.S.E. For those who have not played the game, it is a basketball variation that requires more shooting skills than anything.
I cannot recall ever losing a game to her until she came to visit me in Auburn last week and beat me. I didn't take it well.
If you're like me, you probably take sports too seriously at times, especially when it involves your siblings.
Everyone has a different ego when competing. I can't stand to lose at anything.
A few hours after the tough loss, I eventually accepted that my little sister has grown into quite the athlete and started to act my age instead of my shoe size.
It's easy to get frustrated when you are losing, but there is more a person can gain from competing than winning or losing.
Learning sportsmanship teaches people how to deal with moments of truth in your daily life, and it should be carried beyond the field or court.
Sportsmanship, whether you like it or not, is a connection to your character off the field.
The outcome of sports is often uncertain, like life can be. Sports teach us how to react to things that are out of our control.
Being a "good sport" is holding yourself to a higher standard and enjoying the sport for the sake of playing the game and friendly competition.
Some things we can do to have better sportsmanship are treat others with respect, encourage and congratulate your opponent when they do something good, not gloat when you win, not pout when you lose, avoid making up with excuses, and be able to take criticism without taking it personally.
Your attitude is a big part of what makes you a good or bad sport and shows how mature you are as a person.
Your competitive spirit is going to get the best of you sometimes, but how your emotional reaction is what defines you.
If you're a bad sport you could end up giving others a bad reputation.
Aaron Hernandez's immaturity left a mark on the New England Patriots franchise even after the former tight end's involvement with the team was over when he was arrested on a charge of double murder in 2013.
Hernandez got the lowest score possible for "social maturity" during a pre-draft assessment in 2010, and there were members of the franchise that knew about his immaturity beforehand.
I'm not saying that anyone could have kept Hernandez out of prison, but who knows what might have happened if his behavior was taken more seriously by the Patriots organization or teammates in the locker room.
Monitor yourself, on and off the field, with these things and they can be life lessons as well as good sportsmanship and will make you a better person in the end.
(06/04/14 2:34am)
Auburn men's basketball will play a series against Xavier University at Auburn Arena this season as head coach Bruce Pearl continues to accomplish his mission of lining up one of the toughest schedules in years for the Tigers and turning around the program.
Xavier leads the series with Auburn 4-3, including a win at Auburn in the 2007-08 season and a win at Cintas Center in the 2008-09 season.
Pearl continues the challenge of finding opponents to make Auburn's schedule more attractive than it has been in recent past, while trying to help Auburn improve last season's 14-16 record.
He also wants to make SEC basketball stronger as a whole. Only three SEC teams advanced to the NCAA Tournament last season.
Xavier has proven itself as one of the country's premier college basketball programs.
Pearl and his No. 12 Tennessee men's basketball team defeated Xavier 82-75 in the 2007-08 season.
The series will start in Auburn and return to the Cintas Center in the 2015-16 season.
(05/27/14 3:54pm)
Auburn men's golf team did not advance to match play in its 19th NCAA Championships after placing 23rd Monday at Prarie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas.
"The first 27 holes we played great, we were at nine-under par, and the last 27 - it hurts," Auburn head coach Nick Clinard told auburntigers.com. "It stings a little bit. It's probably the worst 27 holes in my 13-year coaching career."
Play on the first day at Prairie Dunes was suspended for the Tigers after three rain delays, which delayed play by eight hours and ten minutes, and did not continue until Saturday morning.
Auburn came out of the first day tied with Kennesaw State in ninth place. The Tigers were one of the 15 teams to get on the course Friday and finished the first round at plus-two.
David Stringfellow was the only Auburn golfer to finish his first nine holes at plus-one and had two birdies. Jake Mondy, plus-two, and Will Long, even-par, both got through eight holes. Matt Gilchrest finished seven holes at even-par while Niclas Carlsson was plus-one.
Weather conditions improved Saturday and Gilchrest tied for second at the end of his first round and finished at three-under, 67.
At the end of first round Auburn was tied with Alabama for third place at six-under par.
Auburn finished the second round at plus-six in a tie for 11th place with Vanderbilt and Washington. Gilchrest sank a birdie putt on 18 to help Auburn stay in the top-15 and advance to Monday's third round.
The Tigers finished the tournament at 20-over-par and their best score came from Gilchrest who shot 67-73-74--214 (+4) to tie for 57th.
"They have a lot to learn. They have a lot of growing up to do maturity-wise as people and as golfers," Clinard said of his team that counted two freshmen (Gilchrest and Long) and a sophomore (Mondy) among its five players. "This is a good experience for them. They get to realize what they have to work on and what they have to do to improve."
Carlsson (68-73-76--217) and Long (68-73-76--217) finished tied for 83rd and Mondy (71-76-74--221) and Stringfellow (71-73-77--221) tied for 113th at plus-11.
The top eight teams advancing to match play to determine the 2014 champion are No. 3 Stanford (-13), No. 1 Alabama (-4), No. 16 LSU (-4), No. 2 Oklahoma State (E), No. 4 Georgia Tech (+1), No. 21 UCLA (+4), No. 28 SMU (+5) and No. 9 Illinois (+5).
Georgia Tech's Ollie Schniederjans and Stanford's Cameron Wilson tied for the individual lead at minus-6, with Wilson winning in a playoff.
(05/21/14 7:00pm)
Auburn's baseball team (28-28, 10-20 SEC) will be left out of the SEC Tournament this year after finishing the season with its worst conference record since 2007.
Sunny Golloway said his first season as the head baseball coach at Auburn did not end up like he envisioned earlier in the season when he stated the team's goal was to reach Omaha and the College World Series.
"We just didn't finish games late," said senior Damek Tomscha. "There were multiple SEC games where we were up in the late innings and we just found a way to lose."
Despite an even record in his first season at Auburn, Golloway's record at his previous coaching jobs, Oklahoma and Oral Roberts, was 681-337-1.
As head coach of Oklahoma's program, Golloway led the team to seven NCAA Regional berths, four NCAA Super Regionals and the 2010 College World Series.
Golloway's impressive resume did not help the Tigers win enough ballgames this season, but he said it is only the beginning.
"The foundation that we've built did not show up in the wins and losses," Golloway said. "So I understand that it's hard on the surface to see any kind of progress. But I know what we've done, and I know what we're building and how we're building it."
Auburn was left on the outside looking in at the SEC Tournament when the Tigers had their final series of the season against LSU (40-14-1, 17-11-1 SEC).
Their elimination was sealed when Auburn was knocked from contention from the SEC Tournament with the May 17th loss to LSU.
Even if Auburn had won, a place would not have been secured for the Tigers in Hoover because both Tennessee and Georgia earned victories on the final day of the season.
With the season finished, Golloway and his coaching staff will now have the chance to bring some of their own recruits on campus to build upon the foundation the program laid in 2014.
"Attention now has to turn to finishing recruiting and completing our roster for next year," Golloway said. "I was hired and brought here to help lead the Auburn Tigers to Omaha. That started with day one and that won't change as long as I'm here."
(05/08/14 5:20am)
Auburn's women's softball team defeated South Carolina with a final score of 7-5 in the first round of the SEC Tournament Wednesday in Columbia, S.C.
Auburn made good contact with the Gamecocks' pitching for most of the game.
Coach Clint Myers and his Tigers (39-16-1, 11-13 SEC) had a great offensive approach going into the game and executed it early on.
The winning pitcher was Lexi Davis. She allowed six hits, five earned runs and had two strikeouts.
Marcy Harper finished the game for Auburn in the final two innings, striking out two and only allowing one hit and no earned runs.
South Carolina took two of three from Auburn last weekend in the regular season, but Wednesday, the Tigers showed up to play.
Auburn started off hot in the first inning with a first-pitch homerun by Emily Carosone and then back-to-back doubles that resulted in a two-run lead.
In the third inning, Davis had two strikeouts and Auburn remained at a two-run lead.
Austyn West exploded on a hanging curveball for a homerun to lead off the fourth inning, giving the Tigers a 3-0 lead.
After 40 pitches and West's homerun, South Carolina replaced their pitcher, Julie Sarratt, with Nickie Blue in the fourth.
Auburn's fourth run scored in the fourth inning after a wild pitch from South Carolina.
The bottom of the fourth inning is when South Carolina got back in the game with an RBI double by Kristen Struett and a homerun by Victoria Williams.
South Carolina started to attack Davis' pitching in the fifth inning and tied it up after Ashlyn Master's solo home run.
Auburn was shut out in the fifth inning, but capitalized in the sixth inning when they scored two runs to lead 6-4.
Harper entered the game as pitcher after South Carolina hit a homerun in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Tigers' lead to 6-5.
Auburn extended their lead to two in the seventh inning and held on to beat South Carolina 7-5.
The Tigers will play Alabama tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m.