105 athletes named to 2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
The 2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll included 105 Auburn student-athletes, the conference office announced Wednesday.
The 2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll included 105 Auburn student-athletes, the conference office announced Wednesday.
Auburn had 84 student-athletes from all 17 sports on this year’s First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll list, the conference office announced Thursday.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Last season, the Auburn softball team ended their WCWS taste test. The Tigers merely got to dabble in the full experience of Oklahoma City after being put out by Florida in game 11. This year, Auburn got their spoonful.
Auburn floated in game two of the WCWS championship round on a wave of adrenaline and walked off in a veil of victory.
Lexi Davis tossed a full game for the Tigers, her first complete game since April 6, when she became Auburn's most winningest pitcher.
Sunday night at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, history would not repeat itself. The Florida State Seminoles (55-9) and Auburn Tigers (56-10) battled for their ticket to the championship round of the WCWS.
No. 4 Auburn takes on No. 8 Florida State at 6 p.m. Sunday in the WCWS semifinals.
Auburn kicked off the contest with Tiffany Howard scoring on a sacrifice fly by Emily Carosone. Georgia wouldn't allow the Tigers to hold on to their 1-0 lead, responding with a double, sacrifice fly and single up the middle to score Alex Hugo. An Auburn pitching change brought in Rachael Walters and with her came another Georgia run.
No. 4 Auburn faces No. 16 Georgia at 6 p.m. CST on ESPN 2.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Inclement weather has forced changes to the WCWS schedule. Auburn will now face Georgia on Saturday, June 4, at 6 p.m.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A walk-off walk by Auburn that put UCLA out of the WCWS in 2015 would go unanswered in this year's contest.
No. 4 Auburn takes on UCLA at 1:45 p.m. in game two of the WCWS in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Fifty-eight student-athletes from 31 different institutions were selected to one of three 2016 NFCA Division I All-American teams, the Association announced on Wednesday afternoon. Auburn's Kasey Cooper earned the third baseman position on the first team for the second year in a row.
The SEC and espnW Player of the Year Kasey Cooper was named the ELITE 90 award winner by the NCAA at a reception on Tuesday that included all eight teams participating in this years’ Women’s College World Series. “I was really humbled,” Cooper said.
An Auburn dominated crowd dotted by the colors of Arizona faithful fanned its way through 88 degrees of sunshine, humidity and super regional softball on Sunday.
A big sixth inning for Arizona proved to be too much for the Tigers on Saturday as they dropped game one of the NCAA Super Regional.
Auburn tied the series with a 4-1 win in game one on Sunday, forcing the tiebreaker at 4 p.m.
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