by Cole Gray | Mar 30, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
McCarley Thomas mowed down Golden Eagle batters from the pitching circle all afternoon as Lipscomb softball (26-9) defeated Tennessee Tech 7-2 in a non-conference matchup at Draper Diamond on Wednesday. Thomas gave up three hits in seven innings to the boom-or-bust Golden Eagles hitters. Tennessee Tech (9-20) is batting just .218 as a team this season, but 41% of the Golden Eagles’ hits go for extra bases, including 34 home runs. “You certainly don’t want to stay on one plane and just go in-and-out to a team like that or they’re just going to tee off,” coach Kristin Ryman said. “She was a good matchup for them, being able to mix planes and speeds.” Golden Eagle leadoff batter Aalia Bivens led the game with a no-hop double to the wall in dead center and scored on a squeeze bunt later in the inning. Then Thomas faced 15 batters without giving up a hit until Bivens homered in the sixth. An infield single in the seventh and a pair of walks were the only other blemishes on Thomas’s eighth win of the season. Down 1-0 in the bottom of the first, the Bisons pushed across an unearned run on Caitlin Plocheck’s single to tie the game, then took over the lead in the second. Shortstop Peyton Ward singled, stole second, then scored on Abby Fenichel’s single. Then Lipscomb broke the game open—and chased Golden Eagles starter Kayla Hughes, who earned the loss—in the bottom of the fourth, a three-run inning capped by Plocheck’s two-run double, her second run-scoring hit of the day. The junior batted in three runs to bring...
by Lindsey Nance | Mar 30, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
Some nights nothing seems to work out as planned. This was the case for Lipscomb (14-9) as the team fell to Vanderbilt (17-9) 10-0 Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park. Zeke Dodson broke up the no hitter for Vanderbilt’s sophomore right-handed pitcher Chandler Day in the bottom of ninth with two outs. “Their guy pitched a fantastic game and I don’t want to take anything away from him, but on top of him holding us hit-less for eight innings, we did a lot of other things that aren’t typical for our team,” head coach Jeff Forehand said. “I wish Zeke’s hit wasn’t our only highlight but to keep fighting on that and to push through and not get a no-hitter is an accomplishment, but a small one at best.” One highlight that came for Lipscomb happened in the first inning as Michael Gigliotti made a top-10 catch to rob Julian Infante of a two-run home run. “Michael Gigliotti’s catch was probably one of the best plays I’ve seen in 25 years and I thought that would be a spark for us but the spark just tapered away,” Forehand said. The game was scoreless up until the third inning when Vanderbilt began to warm up. Stephen Scott got the offense moving with an RBI single to put the Commodores on the board 1-0. Vanderbilt’s bats stayed hot as the team tallied on three more runs in the next inning while Lipscomb struggled through a pitching change before escaping the inning 4-0. Lipscomb held the Commodores in the 6th inning but would give up six more runs before the game came to a close. Recent...
by Bethany Rowland | Mar 28, 2017 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
On Sunday in Allen Arena, social clubs Theta Psi and Delta Omega hosted their fourth-annual Full Moon Festival and raised over $5,000 for Ed Pack Global. Every year the two clubs host the event to raise money for a philanthropy of their choice while also raising awareness for issues relating to drug and alcohol abuse. This event is a benefit concert, and everyone on campus is invited to buy a ticket, wear their best ‘50s attire and enjoy live music put on by their fellow students. Junior Joel Clinger was one of the Executive Committee members of Full Moon Fest. After a grand total of $5,047 was raised, Clinger, as promised, shaved his head on stage, since the total raised exceeded their goal. “We provide a space for people to have a great time without the use of drugs and alcohol, while raising money for a good cause,” Clinger said. “This year we raised over $5,000 for Ed Pack Global which is four times as much as we’ve raised in the past.” “We have an incredible time listening to our own peers, some that play professionally, play covers of really popular songs,” Clinger said. “It’s a great concert that has both an exciting and clean environment.” Senior Zack Eccleston has played in the bands for Full Moon Fest every year, and he said that it is his favorite social club event. “It’s been so much fun getting to jam with the guys from my club and make music that lots of people can come rock out to, no matter what they do on campus,” Eccleston said. There is always a strong turnout from both students...
by Olivia Waldorf | Mar 28, 2017 | News Slider
Joining Lipscomb’s Gathering on March 28 was Bill Lee, one of Nashville Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEOs.” Lee began with pointing out that our parents’ mistakes and our own are the factors that shape us. We find ourselves through these trials, but those days are behind us. As college students, we are in a spot where our lives are in front of us. Lee was saved in college and lived most of his life in a dream-state. He had a beautiful family, a sprawling estate and a great job. He remembered and shared his wife’s reading a passage out of Job to him one day. In chapter 38, God tells Job, “I will take care of you.” One day Lee found his youngest daughter crying in the field. He immediately asked her if her mother was okay, but his daughter said no and continued crying. He found his wife had suffered an equestrian accident. She never recovered, which left Lee to take care of his four kids, himself and everything he worked to. “I had entered into the darkest season of my life,” said Lee. He then remembered chapter 38 in Job. “I opened up the Bible to that chapter in the hospital room,” Lee said. “God told me, ‘Your circumstances change, but I don’t.’” Lee saw God’s power through this time. Lee’s son attempted suicide shortly thereafter, but even so, Lee had the profound realization that God is in his life. He is in everything. “He will walk with you through everything,” said Lee. Even through the most bitter days in life, Lee said there is “a sweet bread of hope that weaves itself through those...
by Whitney Smith | Mar 27, 2017 | News Slider
For the fifth year in a row, Lipscomb students held the Relay for Life Fundraiser in Allen Arena from Friday night to Saturday morning, raising nearly $26,000 for the American Cancer Society. The all-night event drew social clubs, service groups and other campus organizations together for Zumba, lip-synch battles and a chance to remember those affected by cancer, and statistically, there are plenty to remember. “My grandmother had breast cancer when I was a baby and she was about 60,” said Lipscomb senior and Relay for Life chair Angela Sullivan. “When she was about 73 it came back in her leg. It’s been just over 11 years since she passed away. “Relay is kind of the way I can find reason in that. It’s the place to put all the hatred I have for this disease and feel like I’m doing something useful for that.” According to a study by the American Cancer Society, the number of those affected by cancer will grow in 2017, with over an estimated 1 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the United States alone. Approximately 39.6 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetimes. The funds raised by this year’s Relay will be used to combat those statistics through cancer research and patient programs, which Sullivan says can be life-changing. This is why she participates in the Relay. “When you see the kind of effect it can have on a person when they’re going through such a crappy time, it’s almost like a nonstarter. It was never a question. They’ve been an organization...
by Eric Ansett | Mar 27, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
Lipscomb’s six-game winning streak came to a screeching halt on Sunday due to a sub-par pitching performance and the opportunistic hitting of Evansville. The Aces scored seven runs in the fifth frame to break a 3-3 tie and cruised to a 10-5 victory at Ken Dugan field to avoid being swept by the Bisons. Junior pitcher Dayton Tripp suffered his first loss of the season on the mound, allowing six runs on 10 hits in four innings of work. Tripp pitched in the fifth inning but did not record an out as Evansville quickly loaded the bases before he was taken out of the game. The Bisons could not seem to get out of the inning as they went through four pitchers (Tripp, Dallas Gibson, Alex Dorso and Adam Stewart) and slowly lost control as Evansville belted the ball all over the field. “I always tell our team that in a college baseball game someone is always going to crack,” skipper Jeff Forehand said after the game. “After they got runners on base, that’s when you need to put the fire out and only give up 2 or 3 instead of 7. All the momentum and energy was on their side, and that big inning was what killed us.” The loss brought a six-game win streak to an end and moved the Bisons to 14-9 on the season. After falling behind 1-0, left-fielder Lee Solomon drove in catcher Jeffrey Crisan on a groundout to get the Bisons on the board. First baseman Cade Sorrels then drove in Von Watson with a double down the left-field line to give the...
