Auburn lands graduate transfer at cornerback
Cornerback Marshall Taylor, who is eligible to play this season after spending the previous four years at the University of Miami in Ohio, committed to Auburn at his official visit Sunday.
Cornerback Marshall Taylor, who is eligible to play this season after spending the previous four years at the University of Miami in Ohio, committed to Auburn at his official visit Sunday.
The Auburn Tigers defeated No. 14 LSU in Game One of a doubleheader, 8-5, and dropped Game Two, 8-6, Saturday at Plainsman Park.
Auburn advanced to the NCAA Championship with a tie for first in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, regional, earning the fifth trip to nationals in school history.
Yarbrough Tennis Center saw another pair of victories from the No. 55 Auburn men's tennis team (11-9) over Alabama A&M Saturday with a 4-0 score in both matches.
Pole vaulter Jessie Johnson bested her own school record with a vault of 14 feet, 5.25 inches, while Valentina Muzaric won the shot put with a throw of 55 feet, 9.75 inches.
John Franklin III displayed better ball security in Auburn's second scrimmage of the spring Saturday.
Carlson needed just 61 pitches to dispatch Kentucky in five innings, and allowed just two hits as the Tigers easily trounced the Wildcats Friday night.
“This class had as big a challenge, if not a bigger challenge in front of it," Graba said. "Last year’s class was great because we were able to break all of those records. With this year’s group, the repeat is often difficult, and then they’ve also done some things that have never been done before. Beating Alabama was a big deal, beating Georgia at Georgia is a big deal. So this class is going to go down as one of the most successful classes that we could have had.”
Blake Logan broke the game open with a 3-run home run in the first inning, and Grier tacked on his SEC-leading seventh homer of the year in the fourth inning to salt the game away for the Tigers.
The Tigers hit the field for the first time after the Saturday scrimmage, and the media was allowed 20 minutes of viewing.
It was an ordinary fall practice for Auburn softball. The Tigers, coming off the best season in school history, knew they had the talent and experience to repeat its success and perhaps even surpass it.
Auburn senior Jade Rhodes has been named SEC Softball Player of the Week after her strong play helped the Tigers go 4-0, including a sweep of SEC foe South Carolina.
Owens, who played for the Tigers from 1969-72, was suffering from a myriad of health problems.
The Tigers dropped the final game of the Arkansas series on Sunday, March 27th, by a score of 3-1.
Auburn, which was the lowest seed in the four-team tournament, defeated Alabama in the first round but fell to Vanderbilt in the championship at the FarmLinks Golf Club in Sylacauga.
Auburn dropped its second game against the 18th-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday, March 26th.
Auburn wrapped up the NCAA Swimming and Diving championships on Saturday, March 26th. The Tigers finished with three top-8 finishes and ranked 10th overall as a team.
The No. 1 Tigers clinched the first-ever SEC Championship in program history Saturday with an 11-7 win over No. 2 Georgia.
Neither of No. 3 Auburn's performances against South Carolina in a Saturday double-header were as efficient as its 10-0 run-rule victory on Friday, but the Tigers were still too much for the Gamecocks to handle as they completed the sweep with a pair of victories.
Auburn held its first scrimmage on Saturday morning, marking the first time the quarterbacks have gone live in the team’s first eight spring practices.