Pease and Kelly headline Volleyball All-Conference awards

Pease and Kelly headline Volleyball All-Conference awards

by | Nov 16, 2010 | News Slider, Sports

MACON, Ga. – Following a perfect run through the Atlantic Sun Conference volleyball season for the second-straight season, the Lipscomb Lady Bisons place two student-athletes on the A-Sun All-Conference First Team as the league’s coaches tabbed Stefine “Jake” Pease and Alex Kelly as unanimous selections to the team. Pease picked up Player of the Year honors, an award that Kelly earned the past two seasons. Kelly became only the fourth in A-Sun history to earn First-Team honors all four years, and the first since Belmont’s Colleen Nilson (2004-07).  Lipscomb became the third A-Sun school to produce three straight Players of the Year, joining UCF, whose Emily Queisser, Renata Menchikova  and Tyra Harper won from 1995 through 1997 and Florida A&M, whose Kim Funchess won the award in 1986, 1987 and 1988. Kennesaw State’s Karen Weatherington grabbed the Coach of the Year honor after guiding the Owls to a 9-1 conference mark and the second seed in the A-Sun Championship later this week. During the season, she guided the Owls to a program-best eight game win streak during the regular season and has already matched last year’s win count, 17, enter the A-Sun Championship Sabrita Gulley joined Pease and Kelly on the first team as the senior outside hitter totaled 367 kills with a .279 hitting percentage, ninth in the conference. Two other outside hitters accompanied Gulley as Belmont’s Kayla Albritton and Jacksonville’ Aidan Yeager earned nods for their season performances. Albritton ranked second in the league in service aces with 46 along with her 386 kills, while Yeager totaled 331.5 points mostly coming from her 259 kills and 30 service...

Basketball defeats Stillman College in home opener

by | Nov 15, 2010 | News Slider, Sports

The Bisons got scoring from everywhere on Tuesday night.Lipscomb had five players reach double digits when Stillman visited Allen Arena. In double figures were Brandon Brown with 10, Justin Glenn with 11, Josh Slater with 18, Adnan Hodzic with 19, and freshman Robert Boyd lead the Bisons in scoring with 20. The final score was 103-78 With Hodzic’s 19 points, the Lipscomb big man continued his streak to 59 consecutive games with 10 points or more. Boyd continues to impress Lipsomb fans with his play. The Knoxville native tallied 13 points against North Carolina in his first career game. Tonight, in addition to his 20 points, Boyd went 10-10 from the free throw line, had four assists and five steals. Senior guard Josh Slater lead the Bisons in rebounding with 10. Slater was the first Bison to record a double-double this season. Stillman was lead by Riley Lee, who had 21 points. The Bisons outrebounded Stillman 57-33. With the win, the Bisons improved to 1-1 on the season. The Bisons play host to Austin Peay this Thursday before heading to Waco, Texas to play...

Bison runners excel at A-Sun Conference race, strive for more

by | Nov 15, 2010 | News Slider, Sports

Lipscomb cross-country runners say their work this season really paid off at the Atlantic Sun championships, but that they want to do even better in the future. Sophomore marketing major Priya Pappu expressed the team’s constant forward-thinking after its highest finish ever in the conference championship races in Spartanburg, S.C. “No matter how great we do individually or as a team, being the kind of people we are, we will never be completely satisfied,” Pappu said. Lipscomb placed second out of 11 teams. A fourth-place finish in 2008 was the highest previous finish for the Lipscomb team. The LU runners were: freshmen Alex Newby, Danielle Walker, Tessa Hoefle and Cortney Thomas; sophomores Shelby Marvel, Pappu, Ashton Fisher, Isaiah Greer, Tim Muller, Mike Yang, and Geoff Musick;  and juniors Ashley Lehman, Louisa Van Batavia, Cathrine Beals, Hunter Hethcoat and Benton Reed. The A-Sun field included Belmont University, Campbell University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University. “We constantly critique ourselves instead of simply being happy with our performance,” Pappu said.”We have an outstanding team that gives their all 100 percent of the time. Our season is not over; I just know that we will have our best race of the season at regionals this weekend.” Muller said that this wasn’t the boys’ best race. “It wasn’t the guys’ team’s day,” Muller said. “Bad races are just that–bad races. You can’t prevent them and you can’t change them. “Moving on and realizing what you have to change to be a better competitor is what makes a real...

Volleyball goes 10-0 in A-Sun for second consecutive season

by | Nov 10, 2010 | News Slider, Sports

From LipscombSports.com — Don’t think badly of the Lipscomb Lady Bisons, but they don’t like to share– at least when it is a regular season championship. “We didn’t want to share anything,” said senior middle blocker Alex Kelly. When the Lady Bisons put the finishing touches on a 3-1 match win over the Belmont Bruins Tuesday night at Allen Arena this edition of the “Battle of the Boulevard” meant more than just another win. The victory gave the Lady Bisons a 10-0 conference record, marking the second season they have finished unbeaten in Atlantic Sun games. Last season under the double-round robin format and in the A-Sun Tournament they finished 22-0 in conference matches. It also extended their conference regular season winning streak to 35 games, second only to Hawaii. They are fourth nationally in home wins in a row with 26. “With all the parity in the conference this season it is tremendous for us to go undefeated,” Rosenthal said. “And we did it in style. “The single round-robin is tough. A 22-0 record might sound better than a 10-0 record. But the 10-0 was much more pressure-packed than 22-0. Our girls have done some awesome stuff.” By finishing without a loss it also guaranteed the Lady Bisons sole possession of the regular season championship. With Kennesaw State sitting in second at 8-1 there was a possibility of having to share the title which they had clinched at least a share of last weekend on the road in Florida. “I credit the girls,” Rosenthal said. “To go undefeated in back-to-back years is really hard to do. It is...

Old rivalry to be renewed after 10-year break

by | Nov 4, 2010 | News Slider, Sports

For the first time in 10 years, Lipscomb will be taking on former rival Trevecca Nazarene in an exhibition game Thursday night at Allen Arena. With so much time having passed since the last time these two teams matched up, some people say this installment might not match up to the storied games of yesteryear.  Former star player and current athletic director Philip Hutchinson thinks differently. “A lot of people who go to school in Nashville stay in Nashville,” said Hutchinson. “There [are] a lot of loyalties to both schools. A lot of Lipscomb and Trevecca fans in Nashville were around whenever the rivalry was at its peak; this game should be a lot of fun.” Mark McGee, Lipscomb instructor and sports information director, who covered the games for Lipscomb when the rivalry was at its peak and Hutchinson both described the battles as “intense.” “It was every bit of the Belmont rivalry we have today and then some,” said Hutchinson. “A lot of the players grew up playing against each other, so bragging rights were always at stake each time we faced them.” “The fans were not ugly,” said McGee. “But it would get so loud that you couldn’t hear yourself think. The Lipscomb-Trevecca rivalry was edgier and grittier back then in some ways than Belmont games get today.” Andy Lane, who broadcast the Lipscomb basketball games during the 1980s, proclaims the meeting between these two schools was  “The Game.” “Back when the games were played in McQuiddy, each time Trevecca would come to our place it would get packed,” Lane said. “It was a hot, loud, crowded atmosphere. The games would be...