by Mckenzi Harris | Mar 1, 2020 | News Slider, Sports
The Lady Bisons started with a lead but lost it to Liberty right before halftime eventually costing them the game 70 to 79 on senior day. “We were expecting to compete,” said head coach Lauren Sumski. “We were expecting to play a little bit smarter in the sense of taking care of the ball, but everything else was about what we expected. I thought our young ladies shot the ball well and played hard.” Even trailing late in the fourth quarter, the Lady Bisons fought until the end. Casey Collier fouled out with 1:04 left in the 4th quarter. And the team was fouling back and forth from 1:04 to the end. “At the end, were just a team that doesn’t quit and just tries to find opportunities,” said Sumski. The Bisons scored at least 20 in the first, third, and fourth quarters, but only seven in the second quarter. The Liberty Flames gained their lead in the middle of the second quarter and the Bisons didn’t gain their lead back after that. Carleigh Short was injured during the game and walked off the court. “I just know she got hurt and walked off the court,” said Sumski. “Carleigh is probably my physically and mentally toughest player so I knew when she walked off the court, she was done. So I’m gonna see what we can do to get her back by this weekend.” The Lady Bisons finished the regular season with a record of 7-22 (4-12) including this loss and Liberty improves to 17-11 (10-5). The Lady Bisons will play FGCU in the first round of the ASUN...
by Grant Ledgister | Jan 26, 2020 | News Slider, Sports
An afternoon of loose shooting and scoring runs given up proved to be the downfall of the Lipscomb Lady Bisons against the UNF Ospreys with a deceptively close final score of 68-60. It was looking like this game may be a low-scoring, close game in the beginning stages, as the first quarter ended with the Ospreys ahead 15-12. The first quarter was a defensive battle, with each team forcing four turnovers. The Ospreys also had three blocked shots. Carleigh Short scored the first basket of the second quarter to pull the Lady Bisons to within one at 15-14. It would be several minutes before the Lady Bisons made another basket. The Ospreys went on a 13-0 run that lasted until 2:29 in the quarter and gave the team a 30-18 lead. Poor shooting hurt Lipscomb the most in this quarter. The Lady Bisons shot 5-14 in and were 0-4 from beyond the three-point line. At halftime, UNF’s Jazz Bond had eight points, six rebounds, and two blocks Lipscomb struggled to keep up with the faster, more physical playstyle of UNF. This gave the Ospreys several fastbreaks and points scored from the paint and played a part in the Ospreys out-rebounding the Lady Bisons 22 to 14 in the half. The Lady Bisons scored the game’s next four baskets to shrink UNF’s lead to 30-24 at the beginning of the third quarter. The teams would go scoreless over the next two minutes due to good defense and missed shots. The teams went basket-for-basket with each other until the Ospreys set off on another run with just under four minutes to...
by Taylor McKnight | Jan 25, 2020 | News Slider, Sports
The men’s basketball team faced off against Jacksonville in Allen Arena with hopes to pull out a win to end their 3-game losing streak. The Bisons fell short to the Dolphins in overtime 89-85, their record now 7-13 being 8th in the ASUN Conference. Despite the hard loss, Coach Lennie Acuff had nothing but positive words for his team. “It was a tough loss,” said Acuff. “I thought they played really really well, you have to tip your hat to them. They played with great energy and effort, I thought our guys played hard too they [Jacksonville University] made a few more plays.” Click to read the full story from Taylor...
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 Mckenzi Harris | Dec 4, 2019 | Galleries, News Slider, Sports
The Bisons took another hard loss to the Bruins in the second installment of the Battle of the Boulevard this season. The final from the Curb Event Center was 80-75. “We’re sitting at 3 in 6 and that’s not where we wanna be,” Head Coach Lennie Acuff said. “But there’s probably not many people at our level playing the schedule we play, and so we just need to keep getting better.” The team won two road games over the last week and a half against Navy and Tennessee Tech, and they also hung in for the majority of the Xavier game, despite being without three of their starters. Michaell Buckland, Jake Wolfe and Greg Jones have sat the bench until tonight, due to injuries suffered in the first matchup against Belmont last month. “It helped getting a couple of guys back tonight that have been out for a couple of weeks,” Coach Acuff said. This, the 146th installment of the Battle of the Boulevard, was a Battle as always. The score stayed tight until the middle of the second half when the Bruins began to knock down shot after shot gaining a 13 point lead on the Bisons. Belmont’s freshman guard Adam Kunkel got on a hot streak shooting and got the Bruins score up to 71-58 on the Bisons with 2:42 left in the second half. “The thing I think he’s gotten better at is, he’s not a catch-and-shoot guy. He’s obviously a really good shooter, but he’s got game, he can put it down… he’s much more athletic than you think.” Coach Acuff said about Adam Kunkel....
