by Riley Hoag | Dec 2, 2019 | Galleries, News Slider, Sports
Coming off two straight losses during the ASUN-MAAC challenge last weekend, Lipscomb was looking to bounce back at home against the Eastern Illinois Panthers Sunday afternoon. Without starting sophomore center Dorie Harrison and starting junior guard Sydney Shelton — the Bisons had quite a challenge.giving their leading scorer, freshman guard Jalyn Holcomb, a supporting cast. Much of the first half was controlled by the Panthers’ disruptive offense in the paint, behind 6’1” sophomore center Abby Wahl’s 12 first-half points. For the Bisons, junior forward Taylor Clark and senior forward Emily Kmec both got into early foul trouble, which aided in EIU’s success down low....
by Erika Plunkett | Dec 2, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
Coming off two straight losses during the ASUN-MAAC challenge last weekend, Lipscomb was looking to bounce back at home against the Eastern Illinois Panthers Sunday afternoon. Without starting sophomore center Dorie Harrison and starting junior guard Sydney Shelton, the Bisons had quite a challenge.giving their leading scorer, freshman guard Jalyn Holcomb, a supporting cast. Much of the first half was controlled by the Panthers’ disruptive offense in the paint, behind 6’1” sophomore center Abby Wahl’s 12 first-half points. For the Bisons, junior forward Taylor Clark and senior forward Emily Kmec both got into early foul trouble, which aided in EIU’s success down low. “We’ve faced adversity all season, so it’s nothing new,” Lipscomb head coach Lauren Sumski said. “But we need to be smarter. We need to execute better. We can’t turn the ball over 22 times.” The Bisons ended the first half and began the first half on a 24-13 run to cut the Panthers lead to 4, but fouls and turnovers ended the Bisons’ hopes of completing the comeback The Panthers capitalized by scoring 22 points on Lipscomb’s 22 turnovers. Combined the two teams finished with 49 fouls, including 30 in the second half. After her 17 second-half points, sophomore guard Jordyn Hughes finished the day as the leading scorer for Eastern Illinois, and for the Bisons, Holcomb scored 18 points. “We left young ladies open in transition and they knocked down shots,” Sumski said. For this squad, their focus is on using these non-conference games to grow before conference play begins in January. “We just need to lock in and focus and getting better at finishing possessions,...
by Erika Plunkett | Dec 1, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
For the third consecutive game, the Bisons were on the road and without three of their starters. Senior guard Michael Buckland, sophomore guard Greg Jones, and sophomore guard Jake Wolfe, sat out, leaving a smaller and younger roster to face off against the five upperclassmen starters for the Xavier Musketeers, who were all 6’4” or taller. Saturday afternoon, Lipscomb traveled north to Cincinnati where they fell to No. 25 Xavier 87-62. “We were without three guys that are really key to our team, so I thought we got tired in several instances in both halves and that’s when they went on runs,” Lipscomb head coach Lennie Acuff said. With their speed, the undersized Lipscomb roster was able to disrupt Xavier’s offense for the first ten minutes of the game, but once the Musketeers got into a rhythm in the paint, the Bisons couldn’t find an answer. On both the offense and defense, Lipscomb struggled to get rebounds, allowing Xavier to score 24 second-chance points. “We have to be a little more physical. We need to turn freshman into sophomores and juniors – that would help. They had grown men out there. But we are going to be fine; we just need to keep working.” It was not all bad news for Lipscomb though. Freshman guard KJ Johnson finished with a career-high 25 points and sophomore center Ahsan Asadullah came up just one rebound short of a double-double with 18 points and 9 rebounds. “I was proud of how hard our guys fought,” Acuff said. “It was a one-point game with eight or nine minutes left in the first half,...
by Spencer Boehme | Nov 30, 2019 | News Slider, Radio, Sports
Bison fans worldwide can tune into the Lipscomb-Xavier game on Lipscomb’s online student radio station, The Bison. Spencer Boehme will call play-by-play, while Erika Plunkett will handle color duties. Saturday’s live stream will begin at approximately 10:50 a.m. CT for pregame coverage live from Cintas Arena. The Bison streams several Lipscomb games throughout the year. Upcoming games include the second Battle of the Boulevard on Tuesday night. You can tune in live at thebisonradio.com or on the new iPhone app. Lipscomb is 3-4, while the Musketeers are 6-1 (No. 25...
by Grant Bricker | Nov 22, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
It has been quite the journey for Lipscomb Academy as they have gone from not winning more than five games last season to finishing 5-5 and making it to the semifinals of the playoffs. However, it doesn’t get any easier for them as must now face district rival CPA away from home. The Mustangs played the Lions earlier in the season and lost by a score of 28-7. They also had multiple turnovers the last time they faced the Lions, most of them being interceptions. For CPA, they only finished the season with a 4-6 record, but are no easy foe despite that. The four wins that they got were all against district opponents while the losses came to opponents that were outside of the district. While it won’t necessarily be easier for the Mustangs this time around, Dilfer feels good about how much his team has improved since then. He also knows that they are going to have to play some of their best football to come out with a victory. “We are super excited for the challenge ahead of us Friday night vs CPA,” Dilfer said. “They are a really well-coached and a very physical football team. Our boys have gotten better since the last time we played them, but it will take our best ball to come out of The Den with a win.” Both CPA coach Trent Dilfer of Lipscomb Academy and Ingle Martin of CPA are former NFL quarterbacks — the two will once again face off at playoffs. Dilfer played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, and Seattle Seahawks before finishing off...
by Kailey Schuyler | Nov 21, 2019 | Galleries, News Slider, Sports
The first meeting of the season between Belmont and Lipscomb was everything fans could expect and more between the closest rivalry in NCAA Division I basketball. The energy was electric in Allen Arena during the hard-fought battle, but Lipscomb came up just short losing 73-67 to the Bruins. “We didn’t get the result we wanted, but we sure played hard,” says head coach Lennie Acuff. “We got down pretty good in the second half and was short-handed the last 10 minutes, but our guys kept fighting, clawing and scraping their way to stay in it,”. This was the first time Casey Alexander returned to Allen Arena for a game after taking the head coach position at Belmont. Alexander was the head coach at Lipscomb for six seasons leading the team to an NCAA Tournament appearance and an NIT Finals appearance just last year. “Belmont is a good team and they’ve been playing fantastic, but we had a chance tonight and that’s all we wanted at the end. I was really, really proud of our guy,” says Acuff. Lipscomb entered halftime up by one, 33-32, after going on a 10-0 and a 12-5 run at the end of the first half. The Bruins came out of halftime looking for revenge. The bruins had a 12-0 run at the beginning of the second half. Once Belmont took the lead, they never looked back. “We have the ball twice down four in the last minute and we didn’t get very good shots,” says Acuff. “I have to do a better job of getting us organized down the stretch. We just got a...
