Cory Luckie gets the starting nod for Auburn in Tuesday’s second annual Capital City Classic between Auburn and Alabama at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery. Auburn won the inaugural contest, 8-7, behind a two-run ninth inning and captured three of four games from Alabama during the 2009 campaign.
Former Tiger Chuck Person will be Auburn’s Southeastern Conference Legend at the 2010 basketball tournament in Nashville. His recoginition will be at halftime of Auburn’s 6:30 p.m. CT (SEC Network) game against Florida in the first-round game Thursday.
The Auburn men’s swimming team hosted the James E. Martin Invitational last chance meet on Sunday at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center Sunday.
A pair of nationally-ranked SEC men’s tennis teams in No. 56 Auburn and No. 11 Georgia met on a warm Sunday afternoon at the City of Auburn/Auburn University Yarbrough Tennis Center, seeing the Bulldogs top the Tigers 6-1.
The No. 36 Auburn women’s tennis team nearly knocked off the No. 17 Georgia Bulldogs, but No. 4 singles proved to be the difference as the Bulldogs defeated the Tigers 4-3 at Dan Magill Tennis Complex Sunday afternoon.
The Auburn softball team rallied twice in extra innings to defeat Valparaiso 6-3 in nine innings Sunday in the final game of the War Eagle Classic.
The third-ranked Auburn women’s golf tallied its first win of the 2009-10 season as the Tigers claimed the top spot in the one-day Auburn Invitational, carding a 6-over par 294 team total.
Hunter Morris collected four hits, including a home run, for the second straight day and Cole Nelson continued to baffle opposing hitters as Auburn defeated Miami (Ohio), 5-4, on Sunday afternoon to sweep a three-game series and improve to 9-2 on the season. Auburn built a 5-2 lead after seven but had to hold off a late Miami rally to win its sixth straight game.
McCurdy’s tie for third marks the second time in as many events the Fort Payne, Ala., native has placed in the top-three while Moreland has posted back-to-back top-10 finishes.
Auburn sophomores Kyle Kopsick (72-215) and Will McCurdy (73-216) placed second and third, leading the Tigers to a fifth-place finish Saturday at the Border Olympics in Laredo, Texas. Senior Cole Moreland (74-218) also provided a top-10 finish, placing seventh at the Laredo Country Club.
The Auburn bats pounced on the Miami (Ohio) pitching from the get-go, scoring seven runs on nine hits over the first three innings and rode the arms of Grant Dayton and Stephen Kohlscheen to a series-clinching 13-5 win on Saturday afternoon at Plainsman Park. The win extended Auburn’s winning streak to five games and moved Auburn’s record to 8-2 on the year.
Four members of the Auburn track and field teams were in action this weekend at Last Chance Qualifying meets, attempting to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
The No. 2 Auburn equestrian team defeated conference rival and No. 1 Georgia 12-6 Saturday at the Auburn Equestrian Center. The Tigers improved to 11-2 while the Bulldogs fell to 9-2.
Tay Waller scored 22 points and DeWayne Reed added17 but Alabama defeated Auburn 73-61 in the regular season finale at Coleman Coliseum on Saturday. Waller became the first player since All-America Wesley Person in 1994 to score 20 or more points in five straight games.
The No. 3 Auburn women’s golf team is set to host the one-day Auburn Invitational Sunday at the Auburn University Club, welcoming three other SEC opponents to The Plains.
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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