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Daniel Locke · June 6

Auburn Advances To Third Super Regional In Five Years

The NCAA selected Auburn to host a regional in the 2022 NCAA Baseball Tournament. The Florida State Seminoles, UCLA Bruins and Southeast Louisiana Lions also were selected to compete in the Auburn Regional.

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Noah Phillips · May 22

No. 18 Auburn loses series to Kentucky to close out Regular season.

Losing the series means that Auburn will be playing Kentucky, again as the fifth seed in the First round of the SEC Tournament in Hoover. The winner of which will play LSU. "I could not stress anymore about trying to play a game up there with so many fans there and being so close to Auburn," head coach Butch Thompson said. "We need to put our best foot forward to win the first game and enter the double elimination portion of the tournament next week."

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Daniel Locke · May 18

No. 18 Auburn defeats Samford in final midweek game of the season

The Tigers have finished the season 12-1 in midweek games and 21-5 in non-conference play.

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Daniel Locke · May 18

No. 20 Auburn "Sweeps" Alabama in weekend series

Auburn will be back in action on Tuesday night as they travel up to Hoover, AL to take on the Samford Bulldogs. Then they travel up to Lexington. KY to take on the Kentucky Wildcats for the final three games of the 2022 regular season.

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Noah Phillips · May 11

ICYMI: No. 20 Auburn Trumps Troy 11-4

After losing a series to No. 3 Arkansas, the No. 20 Auburn Tigers (33-16) (13-11 SEC) traveled down to Riddle-Pace Field to gain some momentum against the Troy Trojans (29-18) (13-11 Sun Belt). The Tigers rode a fast start, and electric bats from the whole team to win 11-4.

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Daniel Locke · May 1

No. 19 Auburn wins final home series of the season

“It was encouraging to see the relief performance from Shelby Lowe," Auburn head coach Mickey Dean. “The efforts from Sam Yarbrough and Aspyn Godwin in the seventh inning on their senior day brought tears to my eyes.”

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Daniel Locke · May 1

Auburn wins second game, loses series in Knoxville

“Credit to our guys who didn't blink after Friday and pushed this series all the way to late Sunday to give us a chance to win,” said Auburn head coach Butch Thompson.

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Noah Phillips · April 27

ICYMI: No. 18 Auburn extends win streak against Jacksonville State 8-4.

The Tigers will be looking to carry the seven-game win streak momentum into their toughest challenge yet, the No. 1 team in the nation in Rocky Top.

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Noah Phillips · April 25

No. 18 Auburn Tigers Softball overcome game one loss to win series against Mississippi State

The Auburn Tigers will go on to play there last midweek game against Alabama State on Wednesday April 27, in Montgomery at 5 p.m. before wrapping up the season with two SEC Series in Georgia, and Tennessee, as the Tigers will look to gain momentum for the SEC Tournament which starts on May 10.

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Daniel Locke · April 24

Auburn Sweeps South Carolina in weekend series

“Most of the things went our way. We got behind yesterday and the guys showed a ton of resolve,” said head coach Butch Thompson.

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Daniel Locke · April 20

No. 19 Auburn defeats Kennesaw State 14-1 in midweek finale

“The last two games even though we won them we left 30 guys on-base, that third inning set us up pretty good," head coach Butch Thompson said.

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Noah Phillips · April 20

No. 18 Auburn Softball Beats Chattanooga 7-3 as Maddie Penta grabs 200th Strikeout

“She has been a workforce, I told her the last couple days I really appreciate what she is doing right now,” said head coach Mickey Dean on Penta reaching the milestone.

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Daniel Locke · April 20

No. 18 Auburn defeats Jacksonville State in fourth straight run rule win, 9-1

“It fired her up a little bit. She had a good game against them earlier in the season. It is difficult to pitch well against the same team twice."

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Griggs Blankenburg · April 19

Nate LaRue’s 10th Inning Walk Off RBI Single Lifts the Tigers over the Alabama State Hornets 6-5 In a Midweek Skirmish

“I’m thankful to get this one…but it’s gonna be one of those weeks where we knew going into it how big a week this is gonna be,” Thompson said when talking about tomorrow night’s matchup versus Kennesaw State and this weekend’s series with the South Carolina Gamecocks.

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Daniel Locke · April 16

No. 17 Auburn loses Starkville series 2-1

In the top of the eighth inning Brooks Carlson hit a double down the right field line and there was a fielding error that allowed Bobby Peirce to score and gave Auburn a 3-2 lead. Blake Burkhalter was able to nail down the save for Auburn in the bottom of the ninth inning to help the Tigers avoid the sweep.

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Griggs Blankenburg · April 16

Auburn Gymnastics Finishes Historic Season in 4th Place at the National Championship Meet

“Just really proud of the team. We are in an area that we have not been before…we proved some people wrong. I’m just really happy with our performance.” said Jeff Graba in his opening remarks to the press conference after the meet.

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Noah Phillips · April 16

Auburn Softball Dominates Niagara in Doubleheader

Auburn dominated the day winning the first game 8-0 in six innings and the second game 15-7 in five innings thanks to 26 total hits on the day, and riding fast starts to victory.

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Alex Husting · April 14

Auburn advances to National Championship behind third highest score in program history

Suni Lee led the Tigers with an all-around score of 39.6750 and won the individual beam national championship.

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Griggs Blankenburg · April 12

Auburn’s 17 Strikeouts along with a Bobby Peirce home run lead Tigers to a 4-1 Victory over Samford

“We found a way to play clean baseball defensively and scored three of the last four innings,” head coach Butch Thompson said.