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April 20, 2024
Auburn Undercover Auburn will host Penn State wide receiver KeAndre Lambert-Smith on an official visit Thursday through Saturday . . . There's a week off to break it up, but playing three straight road games against Georgia, Missouri, and Kentucky will dictate the season . . . While Auburn is working the portal, the focus for Freeze and his staff continues to be on high school recruiting. Bringing in a strong 2024 class and already off to a very good start in 2025, he said the goal is to continue to build from the ground up . . . Auburn head coach Butch Thompson continues to shuffle personnel and game plans around to best fit the needs of his team and says that he is thankful to have more time to make adjustments . . . Despite their poor SEC showing, Auburn has proven to be able to swing the sticks a bit. The top four hitters sport batting averages above .300. Outside of that quartet, things have been a real challenge. While there is not a lot of length in the Auburn batting order, they have some hitters in the top half who can do damage . . . To be able to compete in this series, the Tigers will need their freshmen to step up. Players like Cade Belyeu, Cale Strickland and Eric Guevara have proved they can contribute when needed . . . "Everyone in the country is about to see how good this kid is . . . This weekend, sophomore Dylan Watts, senior Tanner Bauman, and junior Carson Myers will get the call against the Mississippi State Bulldogs . . . It's an Auburn baseball team that at one point this season was ranked in the top 25 and now is fighting for a chance to maybe make the SEC Tournament . . . Monday's finale is also set for a 6 p.m. CT start time. In the weekly Mic'd Up Monday contest, Dean will be featured throughout the SEC Network broadcast . . . Horsemanship has been one of the pillars to Auburn's success this season, but they were outdone Thursday . . . Johnson, who entered the transfer portal March 26, announced his plans to transfer to George Mason . . . When the Tigers look to keep their recent run of success alive against Kentucky this weekend, it'll be "Shelby Lowe Weekend" — a weekend dedicated to celebrating Lowe as a senior . . . Previously, a horse-collar tackle within the tackle box was not a foul . . . The Tigers (9-5) are the No. 3 seed after coming off their sixth-straight Southeastern Conference title last month . . . Not many teams get an All-American back for a second season . . . The big man announced that he is returning to the Plains for a fifth season . . . It will be interesting to see if Coach Pearl will play both Broome and Dylan Cardwell, who recently announced his return, together with Broome as the power forward and Cardwell as the center. If Coach Pearl does this, he will need to go get a true center out of the transfer portal . . . The 5-foot-10, 167-pounder signed with Auburn as a four-star prospect out of Trussville . . . The 6-foot-10-inch, 240-pound rising senior averaged 16.5 points per game in the 2023-24 season en route to being named the MVP of the SEC Tournament. Broome averaged just under 25 minutes per game and shot 54.8% from the field in his second season at Auburn. He scored in double digits in the Tigers' last 26 games of the season . . . "I've been telling the team the whole year that with every match and everything we do, we're getting prepared for these postseason tournaments . . . With Broome back, Auburn could be positioned as a preseason top-10 team . . . It's the same way at Alabama and Auburn and most places. A small number of people are carrying the load. They are going to get tired of carrying it. They already are . . . Schofill earned her exemption back in August when she won the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur and is one of six amateurs in the field this week . . . |
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