by Tanner Allen | May 1, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
In the Lady Bisons last home series before conference tournament, Lipscomb struggled to get anything going offensively losing 9-1, 2-0 and 6-2. Things started off rough in game one for sophomore pitcher Mandy Jordan as she gave up a two-run homerun in the top of the first. Lipscomb scored one in the bottom of the second inning, but that is as close as the team would get. Jordan was pulled after three innings, after giving up five runs on six hits. It was the first time in 11 starts that she was unable to throw a complete game. Things weren’t much better for freshman relief pitcher Chloe Yeager. She gave up four runs in the last three innings and also walked four batters, as Kennesaw State went on to win game one of the doubleheader 9-1 after run-ruling the Lady Bisons in six innings. “Game one felt like every time we were turning around we were making some kind of mental mistake, whether it was an error defensively or miscues offensively,” head coach Kristin Ryman said. Game two was much more of a pitchers’ duel between Lipscomb’s McCarley Thomas and Kennesaw’s Abigail Green. After three innings the score was still 0-0, but Kennesaw State’s Courtney Sutter hit a solo home run to give them the lead. Sutter then had an RBI single in the fourth inning, and that was all Kennesaw would need as it went on to win game two of the double header 2-0. Sutter leads the ASUN in RBI’s (42) and home runs (11). “We knew Sutter was a great hitter,” Coach Ryman said. “This is...
by Tanner Allen | Apr 27, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
The city of Nashville has rallied around the local hockey team, the Nashville Predators. The Preds start their second-round series Wednesday night against the St. Louis Blues. Coming into the playoffs the Predators were the eighth-seed and scheduled to play against the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks. Going into the series no one gave the Predators a chance. ESPN polled their hockey analysts and every one of them predicted the Blackhawks to win the series, but the Predators proved them wrong. The Predators came out and swept the Blackhawks in four games to punch their ticket to the second-round. “Getting a chance to go to game three of the series and see the excitement in the arena was really incredible,” senior Chase Whiting said. The cheapest price for tickets in round two is $90 right now, but the Predators know that not everyone can justify or afford spending $90 on a single ticket. They have created a way to give these people a chance to go to a game. On the day of a home game on the NHL app, starting at 10 a.m., the first 50 people have a chance to buy $15 tickets. “We do this so that everyone has an opportunity to experience a game in Bridgestone Arena,” Predators CEO and President Sean Henry has said. Game one of the series against the Blues will be Wednesday night in St. Louis, but there still are ways to experience the excitement of the game. For every road game during the playoffs, the Predators will be hosting a watch party on the plaza at Bridgestone Arena, with entertainment starting 30 minutes before puck-drop. Plenty of...
by Tanner Allen | Apr 18, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
The Lady Bisons won their second straight conference series this weekend against North Florida. Lipscomb won the first game of the double header 8-1, then lost the middle game 5-0, before winning the series finale 2-1 on Saturday. The first game of the series started out much slower than the score might indicate. After the top of the 4th inning the score was still 0-0. Then in the bottom of the 4th freshman infielder Chloe Yeager got the scoring started by hitting a two-run home run just over the left field wall. That wasn’t the only long ball hit in the inning as junior infielder Caitlin Plocheck knocked a three-run home run just a few batters later. “We were doing some decent things early in game one, but we hadn’t quite figured it out yet,” Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman said. “Chloe hits the home run that just jump-started everything. Our confidence really began flowing after that.” Unfortunately for the Lady Bisons they were unable to carry their success over to game two of the series as they were shutout by the Ospreys 5-0. North Florida jumped out and scored four runs in the first inning after just the first seven hitters. After the first inning senior pitcher McCarley Thomas settled down and allowed just one run over the next six innings, but, with no help from the offense, the damage was already done. “We have talked to everybody on the team about mentally being able to rebound,” coach Ryman said after the game. “We don’t have time to pout or sulk about how performances went in these games. We...
by Tanner Allen | Apr 11, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
Lipscomb had its first home-conference weekend against North Florida, but Lipscomb’s bats didn’t get started until Sunday afternoon. In the first game of the series on Friday nothing seemed to be going Lipscomb’s way. The Bisons fell behind in the top first and were never able to battle back. Starting pitcher Brady Puckett had an unusually rough game. He allowed five runs through seven innings, and eventually Lipscomb went on to lose Friday’s contest 11-1. “This is not the way you want to start off any series,” Jeff Forehand, Lipscomb baseball head coach said. “We got off to a rough start and just couldn’t turn it around.” This game started much different for Lipscomb as they jumped out to a 4-1 lead by the end of the 3rd inning, but it wouldn’t last. UNF battled back and it was capped off by a 3-run 7th inning. “This was a tough loss, because we were leading for most of the game, and even after they came back and tied it we were still looking good,” Forehand said. “But it didn’t go our way. We were a hit or two away from it being a different story. This was just one of those games where they played better than we did.” UNF finished game two with double-digit hits for the third straight game. They went on to win game two, 7-5. The Bisons turned to junior pitcher Dayton Tripp to avoid a sweep by the Ospreys. Tripp was coming off a poor performance in his last start as he gave up seven runs in just .1 innings against USC Upstate last weekend. Tripp bounced back...
by Tanner Allen | Mar 14, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb Bisons were swept by No. 19 Michigan after losing 5-0 Sunday afternoon. After blowing a ninth nning lead on Friday night, Lipscomb was hoping they could bounce back Sunday, but they weren’t able to pull out a win against No. 19 Michigan. “They are just a solid team all around,” head coach Jeff Forehand said. “There’s a reason why they are the 19th ranked team in the nation, and I think we learned a lot from this.” Michigan had a 2-0 lead after the top of the first inning thanks to a ground ball that drove in a run and a solo homerun from Harrison Wenson. The Bisons were never able to get on the scoreboard as they struggled from the plate the entire game. They were able to manage just two hits and struck out nine times. “I give a lot of credit to Michigan’s pitching,” coach Forehand said. “From starters to relievers, all their guys pitched really well. We got beat by a better team today.” Lipscomb’s bats struggled for the entire series against Michigan as the team hit just .177 (17-for-96) over the three-game series. Lipscomb’s best chance to score came in the bottom of the fourth when the team trailed 3-0. The Bisons had runners on first and second with no outs, but after a strikeout by sophomore outfielder Tevin Symonette, a fly out by senior infielder Hunter Hanks and then a ground out by sophomore outfielder Von Watson, Lipscomb would never threaten Michigan again. The Bisons next game is Tuesday against Belmont at Rosa Park’s...
