For the second weekend in a row, the Auburn track and field team battled rainy conditions, but it didn’t prevent the Tigers from having another successful meet, as Auburn set or improved on 21 regional qualifying marks and won seven events Saturday at the Tiger Track Classic at Hutsell-Rosen Stadium.
For the second weekend in a row, the Auburn track and field team battled rainy conditions, but it didn’t prevent the Tigers from having another successful meet, as Auburn set or improved on 21 regional qualifying marks and won seven events Saturday at the Tiger Track Classic at Hutsell-Rosen Stadium.
Auburn sophomore Alana Dillette earned a spot on the Bahamas Olympic Team on Saturday as she clocked a 1:03.02 in the 100m backstroke preliminary at the Ohio Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio.
Brian Fletcher and Ryan Jenkins both went 2-for-4 with Fletcher scoring two runs and Jenkins driving in two but it was not enough to bring home a victory as Auburn fell at Arkansas, 5-4, on Saturday at Baum Stadium.
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Heavy rains have canceled Saturday’s softball double-header between Auburn and the South Carolina Gamecocks. The teams will now play two games Sunday.
Grant Dayton was nearly flawless on Friday night as the redshirt-freshman allowed just two runs in six innings as Auburn won the opening game of a three-game set at Arkansas on Friday night, 5-2. The win was the third straight Friday night win for Auburn and its’ first on a Friday night in Fayetteville since the 2000 season.
Auburn senior Alexei Puninski punched his ticket to the Olympics Friday night as the Croatia native finished third in the 100m butterfly with an Olympic A standard time of 52.61 at the Toyota Grand Prix at Ohio State University.
Senior Jacob Dunkleberger won the hammer throw with a nation-best mark on Friday to start competition at the Tiger Track Classic. The men’s hammer throw was the only event contested during the opening day, as the women’s hammer was delayed until 10 a.m. Saturday due to weather and the rest of the meet was already scheduled to take place on Saturday.
The No. 26 Auburn men’s tennis team dropped its first of three-straight road matches, 7-0, at No. 11 Florida on Friday at the Ring Tennis Complex in Gainesville.
The Auburn University women’s tennis team (13-6, 3-6 SEC) gave the No. 3 Florida Gators a run for their money Friday, winning three singles matches, but the Gators prevailed 4-3 over Auburn.
The 2008 minor league baseball season began on Thursday with 16 former Auburn baseball players on rosters throughout the country. Three former Tigers are playing in Triple-A and three are in Double-A to while six former Tigers began the season on MLB Rosters.
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Six Auburn swimmers were named to the 2008 SEC Swimming and Diving All-Freshman Team on Friday, following their performances last month at the SEC Championships.
Head coach Tommy Tuberville will join a host of other college football coaches on April 29 at the Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater at Reynolds Plantation, the nation’s premier head coach and celebrity golf event.
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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