by Jayme Foltz | Feb 12, 2022 | News, News Slider
The Black Student Union (BSU) hosted a hair show in honor of Black History Month. The officers of the club put together an event featuring celebrity barber Shawna Harrison to educate students on the history of Black hair and its different styles. Dorie Harrison, a senior marketing major from Nashville and BSU president, said the timing of the event was intentional since this year’s theme for Black History Month is Health and Wellness. “We wanted to have an event that celebrates all Black hair,” Dorie Harrison said. “Natural. Extensions. Wigs. Braids. All those things. “You know, because there are certain ways we protect our hair and certain ways we care for it that are different, and I think those ways should be highlighted and encouraged. Because everyone deserves to feel beautiful.” The event, which was held in Zebbies Lounge, was an opportunity for students to build community and show off their most confident hairstyles. Daniel Harvey, a sophomore computer engineering major, was one of the students to take to the stage for the demonstration. He said that he usually is indecisive when it comes to choosing cuts at a barbershop, but Harrison took time to educate him about different styles. “I usually just say cut it low, or high, or whatever,” Harvey said. “She (Harrison) went through the process with me. Telling me the professional terms for what I wanted beforehand. I feel like now I know exactly what I want if I were to walk into a barbershop.” Shawna Harrison also shared with the students some of her personal story and how she ventured into the world of...
by Spencer Boehme | Mar 12, 2021 | News Slider, Sports
By many metrics, this was a good season for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons basketball team. For a program that had won four combined conference games in the past two seasons, Lipscomb improved with a winning record in ASUN play and an undefeated home record. That successful season came to a close with a 59-44 loss against the No. 1 seeded FGCU Eagles on Friday afternoon. 13 points from center Dorie Harrison and 11 from senior Taylor Clark were the highlights, as Lipscomb played close multiple times but could never really sustain momentum. Surprisingly, the troublemaker for FGCU was not sophomore transfer Kiersten Bell, who came in with nearly 25 points a game. She managed nine points on 3-of-17 from the floor. Rather, it was Aaliyah Stanley, whose 25 points led the way for the Eagles. Lipscomb went 16-of-57 from the floor, while FGCU went 16-of-58. But FGCU made 11 three-pointers as opposed to just four for the Lady Bisons, and Lipscomb struggled from the charity stripe (8-of-14). The game started out with a major stalemate, with neither team scoring until the 6:31 mark in the first quarter off a layup from Bell. Lipscomb used an 11-0 run to take a lead of 18-15 with 6:06 left in the second but got shut out going into halftime with a 26-18 deficit. The third quarter wasn’t much better, with Lipscomb down 39-25 after a Stanley triple with just under three minutes left. Lipscomb used an 8-0 run early in the fourth to narrow the deficit to just nine with 6:48 left in the fourth. That was the closest the Lady Bisons would...
by Erika Plunkett | Mar 12, 2021 | News, News Slider, Sports
Despite trailing for most of the game, Lipscomb was able to defeat Stetson 50-47 after forcing overtime late in the 4th quarter. Junior guard Jane Deason came out strong in the first quarter putting six points in the book for the Bisons in the first five minutes, but as has been the story for much of Lipscomb’s season, scoring droughts quieted the Lady Bisons for several minutes at a time, the longest of which occurred in the second and third quarters where Lipscomb had no points for 6 minutes, giving the Hatters their biggest lead of the afternoon at 10, 36-26. Luckily for the Bisons, although Stetson was able to take the lead for most of the game, scoring droughts of their own, as well as foul trouble from key contributors, kept the game low scoring. In the fourth quarter, Lipscomb slowly got into more of a rhythm and chipped away at the Lady Hatters lead. Junior Dorie Harrison and freshman Jordan Peete made several crucial free throws and layups to bring the game to one-possession before Deason’s three-pointer with one minute remaining in regulation forced overtime. Harrison, who finished the day as Lipscomb’s leading scorer with 18 points, kept her scoring going into the overtime period, getting all seven of the Bisons’ overtime points, and clinching the victory. The Lady Bisons will be in action again tomorrow at 1 PM against the reigning ASUN champion FGCU Eagles. Lipscomb is looking for their first-ever win against the Eagles and a spot in the ASUN championship game on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Lipscomb...
by Spencer Boehme | Feb 14, 2021 | News Slider, Newscast, Sports
Coming into Saturday afternoon, Lipscomb’s women’s basketball team had not won three straight conference games since the 2017-18 season. Come to think of it, Lipscomb hadn’t won more than four conference games in a season since that year. That all changed Saturday afternoon, as the Lady Bisons took down a floundering, bottom-feeding Jacksonville squad 66-55 and improved to 8-0 at home this season. Lipscomb is now 8-7 and 5-4 in the conference, a marked difference from a squad that has won six total conference games the past two seasons combined. The final scoreline was deceptive, as Lipscomb dominated defensively until late in the game. The Lady Bisons held leads as large as 24 on Saturday afternoon. Redshirt junior center Dorie Harrison dialed in 18 points to lead the way for the Lady Bisons, while redshirt junior guard Sydney Shelton and senior forward Taylor Clark had 10 points apiece. Shelton had a team-high nine rebounds. Jacksonville’s Makayla Edwards brought in 18 points, but Jacksonville struggled to produce any significant offensive output until a 12-2 run to close the game in garbage time. To make matters worse, the Dolphins (3-11, 1-8 ASUN) went 9-of-21 from the free throw line. Much like Lipscomb’s previous game against Stetson, it took a minute for the Lady Bisons to get on the board. But with 6:19 left in the first quarter and Lipscomb down 5-0, the Lady Bisons went on an 8-0 run. Jacksonville tied the game at 11 less than two minutes into the second quarter on a three-ball from Ashley Malone, a freshman guard and local of Nashville. That scoreline would be the...
by Erika Plunkett | Dec 29, 2020 | News Slider, Sports
It was a homecoming on Rocky Top Monday night when former Tennessee Lady Vols Lauren Sumski and Ariel Massengale returned to the Summitt leading their Lipscomb Lady Bisons against Tennessee. However, it was the hometown Lady Vols who won this matchup 77-52. Early turnovers kept the game scoreless until Tennessee finally got a jumper to go with eight minutes left in the first quarter. Lipscomb was able to respond with a shot down low from junior center Dorie Harrison, but it was the Lady Vols who went into the media break with a 10-2 lead. Coming back from the break Lipscomb was able to get back into the game off of three-pointers from sophomore guard Jalyn Holcomb and freshman guard Jordan Peete, but Tennessee’s size allowed them to regain control of the game leading at the end of the first quarter 26-11, while out-rebounding the Lady Bisons 15-5. Lipscomb’s scoring drought a free-throw broke from Holcomb and a three-pointer by Peete — meanwhile, the Lady Bisons’ defense held Tennessee to their own scoring drought lasting for over 5 minutes. Still, Tennessee took a 36-19 lead into the second half. Senior forward Taylor Clark started the second half off with a three-pointer, but the Lady Vols went on an 11-0 run to take control of the game. The Bisons biggest loss was not on the scoreboard after the final whistle, but during the third quarter when Harrison went down after being hit in the head by a Lady Vol shoulder. Tennessee led by as many as 33 in the fourth quarter clearing their bench and getting the big non-conference win...
