by Danny Kotula | Feb 28, 2021 | News Slider, Sports
NASHVILLE – The Lipscomb men’s soccer team lost its conference opener to Bellarmine 1-0 on Saturday afternoon at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. The Bisons were held scoreless for the first time this season despite registering eight shots and placing five of those on target. Costa Rica-born sophomore Alejandro Lopez led the team in the attack with his three shots, two of which were on frame. Lipscomb utilized the fewest players in a game all season long, as only two substitutes saw time for a total of thirteen players seeing action against the Knights. Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Michael Sibley was one of the starters to play all match long for the Bisons, and despite conceding a late goal, he finished with four saves and kept a clean sheet for the first 80 minutes of the match. Sibley was finally beaten at the 81-minute mark by Malaysian midfielder Haziq Zed, a sophomore hailing from Kuala Lumpur. Zed only appeared in 31 minutes for Bellarmine, and his goal was the only shot he produced. Fellow midfielder Micah Linscott provided the assist, adding two shots on goal to his attacking exploits. The Bellarmine back line remained virtually unchanged all match long, but in the midfield and the attack, Bellarmine utilized many more substitutions than the home side. It seemed to pay off with a late goal that gave the Knights their first Division I conference win. Their overall record improves to 1-2 after earlier losses to Xavier and Belmont. The Knights have not scored multiple goals in a match this season. Lipscomb drops its first decision all season, falling to 3-1-0 overall and...
by Camryn Given | Jan 8, 2021 | News, News Slider
2021 is off to an optimistic start in Nashville as the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is begins. The first phase of vaccinations includes essential health workers and first responders. Although vaccines are being distributed, COVID cases in Nashville aren’t dropping yet. In fact, on Jan. 6th the United States lost the most lives from the pandemic in a single day yet with Tennessee being a hot spot for cases. As of Jan. 7th, according to the Metro Public Health Department in Nashville, there are 6,767 active cases of the Coronavirus. There are currently 6,767 active cases of COVID-19 in Davidson County. Questions? The COVID-19 Information Hotline is operational until 7pm tonight. English: 615-862-7777 Spanish: 615-326-9986 DASHBOARD: https://t.co/QPEjrK2tyg pic.twitter.com/RKN8blUnA4 — NashvilleHealth (@NashvilleHealth) January 7, 2021 Davidson County’s reopening plan remains in stage three, as it has since Nov. 30, meaning that restaurants must operate at 50% capacity and must close at 10 p.m. Gatherings are also limited to eight people. More information can be found at https://www.asafenashville.org/roadmap-for-reopening-nashville-phase-3-guidance-and-resources/. Even though Davidson County’s regulations haven’t changed since students left last semester, Lipscomb has added new requirements such as required COVID testing prior to students’ return to campus and surveillance testing. Students were made aware of these changes in an email sent during the latter half of December. Other Nashville area schools, Belmont and Vanderbilt, are not requiring students to get tested before returning to campus but are strongly encouraging them to do so, according to each school’s Return to Campus webpages. Dr. Kevin Eidson, the director of Health and Wellness at Lipscomb, sent out an email to students with additional information about spring...
by Mckenzi Harris and Kathryn Farris | Oct 23, 2020 | Galleries, News, News Slider, Politics
Tonight, Belmont University will host the second and final presidential debate. As part of the increased security surrounding the debate, freshman students from several campus dorms were forced to leave and stay elsewhere. Affected freshmen were sent to Gaylord Opryland to make way for secret service. “A week after we moved into campus things started transforming completely…and about three weeks ago, my residence hall found out that we would have to be moved off campus to Opryland hotel,” Says Becca Pavelich, a freshman at Belmont University. “I wasn’t complaining, Opryland is a beautiful place to go. It was just definitely a shock that we found out so close to the debate that we’d be having to leave.” According to the Belmont Vision, The university provides students with transportation, meals and internet access during their predicted 30-hour stint at Opryland. Pavelich says “we’re honestly not sure what time we get to come back to campus, but we were happy to be able to go somewhere as nice as Opryland.” For Pavelich, the experience of a debate on campus has been a positive one, she says “It is just so surreal. I’ve been watching the other debates and paying attention and to the news but it’s just so cool to think that all of that has been happening on our campus,” “It’s happening tonight on our campus and at our event center that we walk by every day. I know it’s just a great opportunity for our school to be exposed and it’s just an honor to have the president and former vice president here on campus.” Lipscomb University campus security is...
by Spencer Boehme | Dec 8, 2019 | News Slider, Radio, Sports
Live radio coverage of Lipscomb basketball continues this week on the Bison. Fans of the Lipscomb men’s and women’s basketball teams can listen to Sunday’s and Wednesday’s games on The Bison. The games will be streamed live at thebisonradio.com and on the new iPhone app. The men’s team faces an old foe in Trevecca on Sunday at 4 p.m. CT. John Tomlinson will call play-by-play, while Spencer Boehme will handle color duties. The women’s team takes on crosstown rival Belmont on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. CT. Spencer Boehme will work play-by-play, while Micah Kennedy will serve as...
by Erika Plunkett | Nov 3, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
Arriving on the heels of one of the worst seasons in program history, new women’s basketball head coach Lauren Sumski is embracing the doubters as the motivation for her team. “We were excited,” Sumski said.“I was fired up when they [the ASUN preseason poll] picked us ninth.” This is just the response you would expect if you have spent any time with the young head coach. Her excitement, enthusiasm and can-do attitude are a breath of fresh air for a team that many times last season seemed defeated before they even took the court. “Usually, all of those preseason rankings are just based off of the former season, and that’s exactly where we finished,” Sumski said. “We don’t make any qualms about it; we never have.” But Sumski knows something that the poll voters do not: this is an entirely new team. “We have a lot of returners who I think have stepped up and improved in different ways,” she said. “We have some transfers that I think are going to add to us tremendously. And I think we have some young kids who are really going to be able to step up and help us really early as well.” One of those returners is junior guard Taylor Clark, who was voted as ASUN preseason player of the year. Clark, who missed parts of last season with injuries, was Lipscomb’s leading scorer last season and the only player who averaged double-digit points. Adding to the Lady Bisons’ roster is former Kentucky guard and redshirt sophomore transfer Dorie Harrison, who played all 32 games for the Wildcats and averaged 6.7...
