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Frierson Delivers Game-Winner As Auburn Downs Georgia, 1-0, For Crucial SEC Win

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Katy Frierson enhanced her SEC Freshman of the Year candidacy on Thursday night while the backline stifled a Georgia team that had run off four straight wins prior to the match as Auburn won, 1-0, in a crucial Southeastern Conference match at the Turner Soccer Complex. With the win Auburn improved to 9-7-2, 5-3-1 SEC and pulled to within three points of SEC West leader LSU with two matches remaining.


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Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA. With more than 23,000 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state, and according to U.S. News & World Report, has a selectivity rating of "more selective." Auburn was chartered on February 1, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college was donated to the state of Alabama in 1872, when it became the state's public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899. In 1960, its name was officially changed to Auburn University, as it had long been popularly known. Auburn is one of only 13 American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center.

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