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Club Tennis Closes Year at Championships

By Katie Ehrhart / WRITER | April 22

Eleven members of the Auburn Club Tennis team represented Auburn at the recent U.S. Tennis Association National Campus Championship in Surprise, Ariz.The event, which took place April 15-17, was hosted at the Surprise Racket and Tennis Club by United States Tennis Association, NCCS, Intercollegiate Tennis Association and World Team Tennis.Sixty-four club teams from across the country competed after qualifying at their respective regional levels.

Spring Spurs Lackadaisical, Lively to Action

By Ben Bartley / COPY EDITOR | April 22

Fall, football and crisp afternoons give way to pools, sunscreen and new activities spring semester."I like to go to Chewacla and hike down to the waterfall and kind of rock climb around there and go swimming out in the lake," said Courtney Dryden, senior in communications, "because I'm not great at team sports, sports with balls."A popular ball-less spring activity is flinging frisbee around campus."I like it, but I can't throw anything in a straight line," Dyrden said.Jessica Anderson, freshman in pre-nursing, said she enjoys throwing frisbee to relax, but she has never played ultimate frisbee.In her youth, Anderson said she enjoyed playing pick-up basketball."I was a tomboy, so I played basketball with the boys in the neighborhood," Anderson said.

Waller is Baller

By Crystal Cole / STAFF REPORTER | April 22

Losing a senior athlete's leadership is always hard, but the men's basketball team is about to say goodbye to its MVP.Senior Tay Waller was named the Most Valuable Player at the 21st annual Auburn Basketball Awards Banquet Tuesday at the Hotel at Auburn University.Waller was also awarded Outstanding Offensive Player and won an award for most three-pointers made in the SEC.Waller made 3.4 three pointers a game and was ranked fourth nationally.Waller said playing basketball runs in the family and looked up to his father as a great basketball player."My older brother always had a lot of friends over, and they were always playing basketball," Waller said.

Bathing Suits, Bikes, Blisters

By Bethany Donaldson / WRITER | April 22

The Auburn Triathletes placed 22nd Saturday after battling inclement weather at the National Triathlon Meet at Buffalo Springs Lake in Lubbock, Texas.This was the third year the triathletes competed in the Collegiate National Championship.The race consisted of a 10-kilometer run, a 25-mile bike and a 750-meter swim."This was my second triathlon ever," said Robert Bedsole, graduate student in mechanical engineering.

Men Close Season With Win at Alabama

By Katie Erhart / WRITER | April 22

The No. 39 Auburn Men's Tennis team celebrated Saturday after it defeated the No. 29 Crimson Tide in the Tigers' last regular season match.Freshmen doubles team, Tim Hewitt and Lucas Lopasso, started the Tigers off well, defeating Jarryd Both and Trey Walston of Alabama, 8-5.Following Hewitt and Lopasso, freshmen Andreas Mies and Alexander Sajonz squared off against Alabama's Ricky Doverspike and Michael Thompson, who gave Alabama an 8-4 win."We won the doubles point, which was nice to see," said coach Eric Shore of the 8-4 Auburn win in the final doubles match between junior Tim Puetz and sophomore Alex Stamchev of Auburn and Michael Davis and Saketh Myneni of Alabama.Alabama took the first and second singles victory with Botha besting Lopasso in two sets, 6-1, 6-0, followed by Myneni beating Puetz in their two sets, 6-1, 6-4.

Women Lose Final Season Match to Alabama

By Nick Van Der Linden / WRITER | April 22

After a 6-1 victory against the Bulldogs, the No. 52 Auburn Women's Tennis team (9-10) looked to close out the season in style, but came up short against No.

Men's Golf In The Rough

By Patrick Dever / ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR | April 22

Auburn Men's Golf returns to the central time zone after a weekend at the SEC Championship at Sea Island, Ga.The Tigers finished seventh overall, with senior Cole Moreland finishing tied for 12th individually."Overall, it was probably our worst ball-striking week of the year," said Auburn coach Nick Clinard.

Ryal Rocks The 'Stache

By Jennifer Beckett / WRITER | April 22

In his second year as assistant softball coach, Mark Ryal continues to contribute his Major League knowledge and experience to Auburn."I try to help the girls by sharing some of the knowledge that I accumulated over playing 16 years of professional baseball," Ryal said.

Hunt Seat Earns Second Place at Nationals

By Abby Albright / Sports Editor | April 22

After defeating No. 10-seed Kansas State, 7-1, and No. 3-seed South Carolina, 6-2, the No. 2-seed Auburn Equestrian team fell to the No.

Baseball struggles in weekend series against Vanderbilt

By Ashlee Wood / WRITER | April 19

After a riveting three-game series in Nashville, the Auburn baseball team finally lost to Vanderbilt at Hawkins Field Sunday afternoon.

A-Day showcases new players, reserves

By Patrick Dever / ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR | April 17

It was a hot day on The Plains as the Auburn football team walked through the tunnel of Jordan-Hare Stadium."I thought it was a productive day," said coach Gene Chizik. "We had good reps on both sides of the ball and tried to stay vanilla today."

Auburn Wins Home Series Over LS-Who

By Ashlee Wood / WRITER | April 15

Auburn University welcomed the defending national champion and No. 3 Louisiana State University to Plainsman Park last weekend for a successful three game baseball series."In every inning I never thought any lead was safe," said coach John Pawlowski. "We would have one and then they would have one so that was tough."After battling through the first game Friday night, Auburn fell four runs short to LSU, 14-10.Although the team suffered defeat, players had success at the plate.

Barbee Seeks To Reignite Program

By Abby Albright / Sports Editor | April 15

The Auburn Men's Basketball new head coach, Tony Barbee, is finally getting acquainted with The Plains."Today (Wednesday) was the first time I was able to get out on campus, it's unbelievable," Barbee said.

Dingers Lift Tigers

By Blake Hamilton / ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR | April 15

It was homer after homer as the Auburn softball team shut out Mercer 4-0 Tuesday night. Junior infielder Kyndall White and sophomore catcher Elizabeth Eisterhold brought in two runs each with their hits, single-handedly bringing about the win for the Tigers."We got our job done," said coach Tina Deese.

Women's Lacrosse Ends Season With Win

By Patrick Dever / ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR | April 15

The Auburn Women's Lacrosse club (5-6) concluded its season this past weekend with its 18-10 thrashing of the Samford University Bulldogs.Senior center Liz Boyd said the game didn't have a normal outcome for a women's lacrosse game."It was a very high scoring game," Boyd said.

East Alabama's Field Of Dreams

By Nick Van Der Liden / WRITER | April 15

During the week, the Billy Hitchcock Miracle Field is just another baseball complex, but Sunday afternoons, to many, it becomes much more."The Miracle League is designed to give special needs individuals the opportunity to play baseball," said chairman Rob Cox.The league meets every Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.

Tiger Heads To Championship

By Crystal Cole / STAFF REPORTER | April 15

After two days of anticipation, junior gymnast Rachel Inniss was selected to compete at the National Championship at the University of Florida April 22.Inniss was in a seven-way tie for first in the floor exercise at regionals with a score of 9.9.Inniss said she will probably not do much differently to train for nationals."We're going to stick with the same routine, I mean, it's what got me there," Inniss said.

Men's Tennis Falls, Prepares For Bama

By Blake Hamilton / ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR | April 15

Last weekend was a long one for the No. 39 Auburn Men's Tennis team, as it dropped its 11th match this season 5-2 to Mississippi State in Starkville Sunday afternoon.The Tigers struggled from the beginning in doubles play as redshirt junior Nick Maurillo and junior Michel Montiero fell to Bulldogs Louis Cant and Chris Doerr 8-4.