Auburn’s quarterback competition continues
There’s no shortage of questions for Auburn’s football team and coach Gus Malzahn to answer this spring. One of the more pressing issues has to be the dilemma over who will play quarterback next season.
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There’s no shortage of questions for Auburn’s football team and coach Gus Malzahn to answer this spring. One of the more pressing issues has to be the dilemma over who will play quarterback next season.
Last year’s Auburn team struggled to get to the quarterback. The leader in sacks among defensive linemen, DeVonte Lambert, is gone along with Gabe Wright and Angelo Blackson.
Auburn’s women’s tennis team played the Ole Miss Rebels Sunday, March 15, in the Tigers’ fifth SEC match of the season.
The Auburn men’s tennis team took the court Sunday, March 15, against Mississippi State, just two days after losing to Alabama 4-1.
Auburn’s men’s tennis team took on in-state rival Alabama Friday in Auburn. The tigers, despite being ranked 39th to Alabama’s 66th rank, fell to the Crimson Tide 4-1.
The Auburn men’s tennis team traveled to Vanderbilt Sunday, March 8, to take on the 14th ranked Commodores.
The Auburn women’s tennis team faced Georgia Sunday, March 8, after beating Tennessee 4-0 on Friday, March 6.
Auburn faced Xavier on Sunday, March 8, in the final game of a weekend long series between the Tigers and the Musketeers. The Tigers won 10-6 to finish the series sweep over Xavier.
The No. 7 Auburn Tigers faced the No. 3 Baylor Bears Saturday in the last home match up of the season.
Auburn’s women’s tennis team defeated Tennessee Friday, March 6, in the Tigers’ first home SEC match of the season.
The Auburn Tigers took on the Jacksonville State Gamecocks on Sunday, March 1. The Tigers scored nine runs but ended up losing the game 10-9.
Auburn’s women’s tennis team headed to Columbia, SC Friday in hopes of winning their SEC opener against the No. 42 Gamecocks.
The Auburn men’s tennis team faced South Carolina on Thursday, Feb. 26 in Auburn, AL.
Auburn’s men’s tennis team was ranked 28th in the Feb. 24 release of the NCAA Men’s Division I rankings.
The Auburn men’s tennis team participated in the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic in Montgomery, AL this weekend.
The Tigers beat number 34th ranked Clemson 6-1 in their first big home match of the season Friday. The Tigers were able to secure a doubles point by winning both the first and second court doubles matches 6-4 and 6-1. Auburn's first through fifth courts finished victorious with the only loss going to sophomore Oliver Plaskett by way of 6-1 6-0. Senior Lukas Ollert defeated Clemson's first court player Hunter Harrington 7-6(9-7), 6-4. Auburn juniors Marko Krickovic and Joseph Van Dooren both won three set matches. Krickovic won by a score of 5-7, 6-3, 10-7 while Van Dooren bested his opponent 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2. Sophomore Dante Saleh won a close match as well, he won his three-setter 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. Maxime Hinnisdaels, auburn's third court singles player, had the least trouble with his opponent as he was able to win 6-1 6-1. Sunday, the Tigers defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 4-3 despite losing the doubles point. The Tigers changed up doubles pairs this match as Krickovic and Plaskett were defeated 6-4. The second doubles loss went to Ollert and Van Dooren by a score of 6-1. "We loss a doubles point to Georgia Tech, and they're known for being a very good doubles team," Ollert said. "We knew that it was going to be tough to win the doubles point, but we knew that our big strength is singles." The Tigers won four out of six singles matches to clinch. Ollert won his court one match 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 6-2. Auburn had two more three set singles matches including a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory by Saleh. After the match, Saleh told me that he felt he played pretty well and that he thought he was a couple key points away from dominating the match. "I think I played well overall," Saleh said. "In the first set I had some chances, I just didn't take advantage. I had a couple games where is was 40-love or 40-15, and I ended up losing the no add point. The second set I played more to the game plan." Hinnisdaels came out with the win on court three with a 7-5 6-4 win over Georgia Tech's Michael Kay. The Tigers now sit at 9-1 and will look to possibly move into the top 30 after this weekend's two big wins. The next scheduled appearance for the Tigers is set for February 20th as the team will be participating in the Blue Grey tournament in Montgomery.\0x200B
The Auburn women's tennis team finished their third match of the weekend Sunday, Feb. 15, against Troy. Saturday, the Tigers faced the Samford Bulldogs and the UAB Blazers. Auburn defeated the Samford Bulldogs without giving up a point before doing the same to the Blazers. In the first match of the day, Auburn was able to secure a doubles point despite the first court loss by senior Emily Flickenger and junior Pleun Burgmans 6-2. The team was able to clinch by winning singles for courts two through four all strangely enough by the score 6-2, 6-0. In the second match of the day, the Tigers stayed went unbeaten in doubles, Flickenger and junior Paula de Man won 6-1, while senior Jen Pfeifler and sophomore Reka Muller won 6-1 on court three. Freshman Andie Dikosavljevic won her court one singles match by score of 6-1, 6-1. Flickenger had the longest singles match, but was able to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to clinch. In the match against Troy, the Tigers won all seven matches. After the match, Dikosavljevic, who won 6-2, 6-1, said she felt she played well, and that after the first set, she knew she had the match where she wanted it. "I played really well," Dikosavljevic said. "I thought in the beginning it was a little close, but I was able to break her down in the middle of the first set, and I was able to carry that through the whole match." Flickenger once again had the longest match against the Trojans, but she won 7-6 (7-2), 5-7, 1-0 (10-4). Pfeifler said these types of matches can be some of the harder matches to prepare for mentally. "It's completely mental because you know what's expected of you, and you know that they are going to come out fighting," Pfeifler said. "You have to put yourself in the mind set that every point counts just like it will next weekend." Pfeifler refers to next weekend because the women's next scheduled match is against SEC opponent South Carolina. Head coach, Lauren Longbotham Meisner, said there is still work the Tigers need to fix before they get to SEC play, despite saying that she thought the team played well. "Courts four, five, and six I think did really well," Meisner said. "We struggled on two and three, so we need to maybe work on our attitude. We've got to work on some things before SEC play, but we've had a grueling road. We were on the road for 15 weekends. So we got some good time so that we can tweak some things before SEC." The Tigers now have 12 days on rest before their match against the Gamecocks in Columbia on Feb. 27.\0x200B
Auburn women's tennis team concluded their weekend trip to Houston, Texas, with a win against the 42nd ranked Washington Huskies. The Tigers bested the huskies by a score of 5-2. Junior Pleun Burgmans lost the first court singles match by a score of 6-3, 6-3, but she and senior Emily Flickenger were able to win the first court doubles match by a score of 6-2. In addition to Flickenger's doubles victory, she won her third court singles 1-6, 7-6, 6-4. Auburn's freshman Andie Dikosavljevic secured a second court singles point winning 6-7, 6-3, 6-3. Sophomore Reka Muller gave up the second and last point to the Huskies by losing 6-2, 7-6 in singles. Auburn's Paula de Man and Jen Pfeifler won their fifth and sixth court matches by scores of 6-1, 6-3 and 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 respectively. The Tigers are currently riding a four match win streak and have matchups against Samford and UAB in Birmingham on Feb. 14 before returning home to play Troy on Feb. 15.
The Auburn women's tennis team won two matches Saturday, Feb. 7, in Houston. The first match, which auburn won 6-1, was against the 52nd ranked Washington State Cougars. In the second match, the Tigers won 7-0 against Prairie View A&M. Junior Pleun Burgmans won her morning match 6-2, 7-6, but she and senior Emily Flickenger left the court at 5-5 after Auburn clinched the doubles point. Flickenger gave up the only point against Washington State in singles. She lost the second court match 6-1, 7-6. Reka Muller overcame her opponent in three sets by a score of 6-1, 5-7 (10-5). The sophomore won her doubles match with the help of senior Jen Pfeifler 6-3. Muller didn't play in the afternoon match, but freshman Mary Catherine Lewis filled in nicely, as she was able to win her doubles match with Pfeifler 6-2. Freshman Andie Dikosavljevic won her singles match 6-0, 6-2. She and her doubles partner Paula de Man won 6-2 in addition to de Man's 6-1, 6-1 singles win. The Tigers didn't drop a set to Prairie View in route to winning their sixth match of the season. Sunday, the Tigers take on the 42nd ranked Washington Huskies. The Tigers currently sit at 28th in the nation.\0x200B
Auburn's men's tennis team remains unbeaten at home after taking down the UAB Blazers twice Friday, Feb. 6. The Tigers won the first match-up 6-1 and the second 4-1. Despite the lopsided score, head coach Eric Shore said that he didn't see it that way. "The score was 6-1 in the morning match, but it was a lot closer than that," Shore said. "I thought we got lucky. I don't think we did a very good job in singles of competing like we need to." Junior Joseph Van Dooren won a three set match in the first meeting of the day by a score of 6-4, 6-7 (10-7). "In the first set, I got up pretty fast and the guy came back," Van Dooren said. "In the second set, I could serve for the match, but I didn't close it out. I started pretty slow." Despite what Van Dooren called slow, he was able to win his second singles match 6-2, 6-3. Sophomore Dante Saleh won all of his matches. He didn't participate in singles for the first match but won doubles with fellow sophomore Maxime Hinnisdaels 6-2. In singles, Saleh won 6-0, 6-3. "I had a good start, and I was serving well," Saleh said. "I wasn't in too much danger of losing my serve, and so I knew that. I broke at 4-3 and held for the set. It was a pretty textbook second set." The Tigers' next match is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 13, against Clemson. It is safe to say that this will be the biggest home test for the Tigers to this point. With Friday's wins over UAB, the team's record comes to 7-1.