by Parker O'Neal | Feb 26, 2022 | News Slider, Sports
NASHVILLE – The Lipscomb baseball team defeated the Bradley Braves 14-0 Friday afternoon at Dugan Field in a one-game conference matchup. Pitcher Kaleb Kantola, a native of Monmouth, Oregon, improved to 2-0 on the season as the starting pitcher on the win. In five innings pitched, Kantola earned 10 strikeouts to total 15 strikeouts on the year. Kantola had a perfect game through three innings pitched; however, the Bisons were also able to take advantage of five walked batters in the second inning to score five runs in back-to-back innings. Senior third baseman Malik Williams had two hits for three at-bats to tally six RBIs. Williams earned two RBIs off a triple and hit his third home run of the season in the fifth inning to stretch Lipscomb’s lead to 14 runs. Maddux Houghton, a senior from Dalton, Georgia, had a game-high three runs on the day and converted on a double in the second inning to continue the lights-out performance by the Bisons early in the game. After Lipscomb’s blazing start in the second and third innings, the Braves could not recover. The Bisons finished with six runs and zero errors on the day. The game ended in the seventh inning with a mutual agreement. Last weekend, Lipscomb won the series 2-1 against the Akron Zips. With the win today, the Bisons improve to 3-1 on the season and will play the Pittsburgh Panthers from the ACC in a two-game series. The Bisons and Panthers will square off in game one of the series 3 p.m. Saturday at Dugan Field. The game will also be broadcast on the Lipscomb Bisons...
by Kathryn Farris | Feb 25, 2022 | News, News Slider
At the beginning of her tenure as Lipscomb’s President, Dr. Candice McQueen mapped out three goals for her first semester: Get to know the community, discover where gaps lie in the university and start dreaming about what’s possible. “I will tell you when I started, I began a listening process,” McQueen told Lumination. “I learned some things that I didn’t already know. And then some things were affirmed that I felt like were areas that we needed to focus on or have a strategic attention to. What I have loved is hearing feedback that does now create patterns or themes that you can act on.” In tackling her initial goals, McQueen said she has discovered a few patterns in comments from the Lipscomb community. “In terms of what I’ve heard, there are things that are student-life focused,” she said. “I’ve heard some things that are focused on academics, things are focused on how we work with our community and external folks outside of the institution. “So all of those have created things that we can start executing on now. And then many will be built into a longer-term strategic plan process.” The Lipscomb Impact 360 planning process was launched in the fall, and McQueen said she plans to complete and distribute a visioning document in May 2022. The process is being conducted by a planning committee of around 50 key university leaders, faculty of various ranks, students and other key constituencies such as alumni, according to the university website. “We are beginning on that work built on the [faculty, staff and student] survey, focus group listening sessions that I’ve had and now we’re...
by Danny Kotula | Feb 25, 2022 | News Slider, Sports
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – For almost every team across all sports and levels, no matter how successful it may be, there is a distinguishable low point. In the Lipscomb women’s basketball team’s case, it’s hard not to argue that their low point just arrived after a 20-point loss to Bellarmine Thursday night. The Knights’ were 3-23 overall and a winless 0-14 in the ASUN Conference leading up to their 68-48 win at historic Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. Giving a team their first conference win of the season is disappointing enough, but according to assistant coach Chris Sumski, the biggest issue on the night was a lack of effort. “I don’t know if we didn’t take them seriously, [and] there’s no such thing as an easy conference win, but we just didn’t have it today,” Sumski said. “It was unacceptable.” “It better [change Saturday versus Central Arkansas], or it’s going to be an embarrassing finish to the season,” Sumski said. Presley Brown paced the Knights with 17 points, one of five players who scored in double figures for the home team. Baylee Harney, Claire Knies, Mackenzie Keelin, and Katherine Scott also scored 10-plus points for Bellarmine. Second-year freshman guard Jordan Peete and sophomore wing Jalyn Holcomb scored 11 points each to lead the Bisons, who failed to score 50 points for only the third time this season. Peete shot 4-5 from the field but committed six of Lipscomb’s 17 turnovers on the night. Holcomb added four rebounds and two assists. The first quarter saw the Bisons shoot just 2-12 from the field on offense, scoring their lowest point total in...
by Shelby Talbert | Feb 24, 2022 | News, News Slider
Lipscomb’s engineering college ended its Day of Giving with the second annual Rocket Car Rally. The first rally was in 2007, but the event took an extended hiatus, before reemerging last year. The tournament consisted of nine teams with 18 students participating. The event was put on by the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering and was spearheaded by Dr. Fort Gwinn Jr., associate dean. It was Gwinn who revitalized the event last year. “This year worked great,” Gwinn said, after this year’s Feb. 22 event, held in a parking garage. “It usually works better outside, but it was still good!” Originally meant to take place out front of the Fields Engineering Center, the event was moved under the cover of the nearby parking garage because of inclement weather. “The timing device made a big difference,” he said. “It eliminates any disputes, and it really made all the difference in the world.” Teams were instructed to pick team names and then begin making and decorating small cars to race during the rally that was a part of the Day of Giving celebration. The tournament worked through a bracket system until one car was awarded the grand prize. The event started strong as the eight teams went up against each other, and a surprising underdog arose in the form of Team Vector. Katie Kirby and Emilia Hook, both mechanical engineering majors, came out on top, winning their first bracket. “Well, we won our first round and we were not expecting to,” Hook said. “Usually the lighter car wins and ours is pretty heavy, but luckily that was not the deciding...
by Danny Kotula | Feb 24, 2022 | News Slider, Sports
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – The Lipscomb men’s basketball team lost a 76-73 decision to the Bellarmine Knights Wednesday night at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. After trailing by nine points at halftime, a missed three-pointer as time expired from junior Greg Jones kept Lipscomb from forcing overtime against the Knights. “We didn’t quit,” Lipscomb head coach Lennie Acuff said. “I thought we showed a strong chin, you know: we got [the lead] down to two and just had four bad possessions at the end.” Second-year freshman guard Will Pruitt led the Bisons with 18 points on 5-9 shooting from the floor. The Mt. Juliet, Tennessee-born point guard made three first-half three-pointers en route to a 3-5 mark from beyond the arc on the day. “Will played really well,” Acuff said. “He’s had a great year. Tonight was just kind of indicative of the way he’s played all year; he’s a great player and a winning player.” Junior center Ahsan Asadullah scored eight points, adding six rebounds and six assists to lead the Bisons in both categories. After leaking points all over the floor to an effective Bellarmine offense, Lipscomb found its way defensively in the second half. The Bisons allowed 6-12 shooting from deep by the home team in the first half, but held Bellarmine to just 1-9 from three in the second half. However, points in the paint were troublesome for Lipscomb throughout. The Knights knocked in 48 points in the paint across the game, doubling Lipscomb’s total of 24. Leading the charge inside for the home side was Dylan Penn, who went 8-10 on field goals and scored...
by Parker O'Neal | Feb 21, 2022 | News Slider, Sports
NASHVILLE–The Lipscomb women’s tennis team lost to the UAB Blazers 5-2 Saturday afternoon in their last competition of the indoor season at Ensworth High School. The Bisons played matches in back-to-back days for the first time this season after defeating in-city rival Belmont 4-3 the day before. Despite senior Maddux Brandy and sophomore Sasha Dobranos’ commanding 6-1 win in the doubles round, the Bisons fell behind 0-1 to start as they were unable to win the other two doubles matches. “We showed some good things [but] we really just blew the doubles point which really changed the trajectory…it was just one of those days where we had to be a little bit tougher,” assistant coach Dwight Dale said. The Bison’s performances in the singles matches did not reflect the final score as there were four tiebreakers that occurred throughout the tight matches. Dobranos won her first competitive set with a tiebreaker win and finished with a 6-4 win in her second set. Courtside to Dobranos’ match, Kate Popova, hailing from Donetsk, Ukraine, fought valiantly as she faced three tiebreaker sets in a row, winning the match in the final two sets. Beginning in March, the Bisons will play three matches in a span of five days. “Our girls know that we are going to be playing against really good competition,” Dale said, “[but] we’re capable of doing it. It’s just a matter of going out and taking care of business.” Lipscomb’s record sits at 3-4 after the weekend slate and will now play on campus at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center for the remaining scheduled home games. The Bisons will...
