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	Chattanooga stuns Eagles in title bout MT. PLEASANT, S.C. —Heading into Saturday, Georgia Southern’s softball team was sitting pretty. The second-seeded Eagles were perched in the winner’s bracket of the Southern Conference tournament, needing just one win over Chattanooga to lock up the crown and the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. But top-seeded Mocs rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh to take game one, 3-2, and force a deciding matchup, which they ran away with by exploding for nine runs and eight hits — all with two outs — in the fifth inning. It was ... Read Article »
	GSU softball's SoCon title hopes put on hold MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – Georgia Southern’s Southern Conference title hopes were put on hold Saturday afternoon by a clutch-hitting Chattanooga team. The top-seeded Mocs plated the game-winning run with one out in the bottom seventh to down GSU 3-2 in the league tournament’s championship game, forcing a deciding matchup slated to begin around 3:40 p.m. Saturday. It was the ... Read Article »
	The Lady Eagles advance to the SoCon title game MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — SoCon Player of the Year Robyne Siliga belted a three-run home run to center field to give second-seeded Georgia Southern a 4-2 victory over fifth-seeded UNC Greensboro in game 11 of the 2008 Southern Conference Softball Championship at the Patriots Point Athletics Complex. Georgia Southern (37-28) advances to the championship round of the tournament with the first championship game to be played at 1:30 p.m. Saturday against either College of Charleston, Chattanooga or UNC Greensboro. UNCG (23-32) will face the winner of Friday’s College of Charleston/ Chattanooga game Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. with ... Read Article »
	Georgia Southern gets a huge win, blows away UNCG Believe it or not, the wind wasn’t blowing out of J.I. Clements Stadium in the first inning Friday night. But that didn’t stop Georgia Southern from launching three balls out of the park during the opening frame, providing a comfortable cushion for starter Kyle Kamppi, who was unshakeable on the mound as the Eagles cruised to a 14-2 Southern Conference series-opening win over UNC Greensboro. The Georgia Southern bats produced plenty of support for Kamppi, who turned in the best performance of his career, tossing seven shutout innings and lasting eight – his longest outing at GSU ... Read Article »
	Richardson goes from bench to beast David Richardson is the type of guy that if he’s going to do something, you know it’s going to be done right. That much is evident on the field where the Georgia Southern senior outfielder is hitting .382 with 42 RBIs and 35 runs scored this season, his first as an everyday player. Richardson’s batting average is good for third on the team and eighth in the Southern Conference. His work ethic is also obvious in the classroom where he sports a 3.9 GPA and was tabbed GSU’s male student-athlete of the year. ESPN The Magazine also ... Read Article »
	Eagles advance to semis MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — Megen Smith drove in three runs and ended a furious College of Charleston rally in the final inning to earn the save as Georgia Southern advanced 6-5 in game eight of the 2008 Southern Conference Softball Championship at the Patriots Point Athletics Complex. With Georgia Southern holding a commanding 6-1 lead entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Charleston wasted little time in mounting a comeback. Christal Kotchman doubled down the left field line and was followed by a Tiffany Harmon single and an RBI double by Kristi Woodall. With no outs and two ... Read Article »
	Eagle softball moves through round one MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — No. 2 seed Georgia Southern received home runs from sophomore Jenny Side (Loganville, Ga.) and Amanda Hall (Haddock, Ga.) to defeat No. 7 seed Appalachian State 4-2 in the first round of the Southern Conference Softball Tournament Wednesday afternoon at Patriots Point. The Eagles (35-28) move on to face the winner of College of Charleston-Furman today at 5 p.m. The opening-round win is the first for the program since head coach Natalie Poole’s first season in 2002. The last two years GSU has rebounded from a first-day loss to advance to the championship ... Read Article »
	FCS to expand playoff field Beginning in 2010, four more teams will be included in the Football Championship Subdivision postseason party. Coaches have been urging the NCAA to expand the FCS playoffs, and the current field of 16 will increase to 20 with two new spots going to at-large teams and two awarded to champions of the Big South and Northeastern Conferences. In total, there will be 10 automatic bids and 10 at-large invites. “It seems like every single meeting the No. 1 topic is playoff expansion,” said Elon coach Pete Lembo, who represents the Southern Conference on the FCS Coaches Executive ... Read Article »
	Foster shows consistency in first mini-camp Back at home following his first NFL rookie mini-camp this past weekend, Jayson Foster was happy with the way he performed and anxiously anticipating his next trip to Miami. The former Georgia Southern star and Walter Payton Award winner signed with the Dolphins as a free agent last month and hopes to make the team as a receiver and/or special teams player. He worked out with the Dolphins for the first ... Read Article »
	Georgia Southern hit with academic sanctions ATLANTA — Georgia Southern lost scholarships in football and men’s golf on Tuesday and Georgia State’s men’s basketball team was warned that it could face sanctions next year. The sanctions and results came in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Report. Among state schools, Kennesaw State’s men’s track team and Augusta State’s men’s golf team also lost scholarships after falling below the NCAA standards for academic progress. The APR is a point system based on scholarship athletes’ remaining eligible and in school. Georgia and Georgia Tech exceeded the standards in every sport. Georgia finished first in ... Read Article »
	Softball Eagles begin tourney play Wednesday The quest for the 2008 Southern Conference Tournament championship starts today when the Eagles take on Appalachian State in the first round. The tournament will be held at the Patriots Point Athletic Complex in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. Georgia Southern (34-28, 11-7) earned the second seed with a win on Sunday, the program’s highest seed since 2002. “I feel like we’re playing well,” said head coach Natalie Poole. “I think that offensively we’re not getting bogged down with too many things mentally at the plate. We’re trying to keep clear minds at the plate and hack away ... Read Article »
	10 Mercer pitchers quiet Eagles Ten Mercer pitchers combined to defeat Georgia Southern 6-4 on Monday afternoon at J.I. Clements Stadium. Jeremiah Parker (Carrollton/Carrollton) homered and David Richardson (Dahlonega/Lumpkin County) extended his hitting streak to 14 games, but the Eagles fell to 28-20 overall. GSU had won five of the last six against the Bears. Mercer (20-28) loaded the bases off Burt Barto (Columbus/Columbus) thanks to a double, walk and single to start the game. One run came on a passed ball then another came home on Mike Armstrong’s RBI groundout. Barto got two more groundouts to end the threat. GS got ... Read Article »
	Eagles squeeze by Citadel When Richard Jones’ three-run shot sailed out of the park to knot the game at 5-5 in the top of the ninth, no one in the Eagle dugout seemed too worried. “I knew there was no way we were going to 10 (innings),” said Georgia Southern right-hander starter Andy Moye, who pitched brilliantly Sunday. Moye was right, and Eagle first baseman Jeremiah Parker drove in Ty Wright for the game and series-winning run with one out in the bottom of the ninth to lift GSU to a 6-5 victory over The Citadel at J.I. Clements Stadium. ... Read Article »
	Eagles dig big hole, can't talon way back Heading into this weekend, the notion of The Citadel out-slugging Georgia Southern seemed improbable. The Bulldog offense came to Statesboro ranked next-to-last in the league, while GSU boasted the most dangerous lineup in Southern Conference and one of the best in the country. But this interesting series took an unexpected turn Saturday when The Citadel slammed three home runs — including a pair of two-run bombs by Kyle Jordan and a Chris McGuiness grand slam — to down GSU 12-8 and tie the series at 1-1. The Bulldogs (24-22, 12-11) halted their five-game losing streak and ... Read Article »
	GSU's first pitch moved up to 5 p.m. Game two of the Georgia Southern/Citadel series has been moved to 5 p.m. today because of the threat of rain. Junior right-hander Kyle Kamppi will take the mound for the Eagles (27-18, 11-8), and junior righty Wes Wrenn will go for the Bulldogs (23-22, 11-11). The Southern Conference series will conclude Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Read Article »