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          <title>SZVETITZ COLUMN: Nothing beats the fun on the 4th</title>
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DISCLAIMER: The following column is written by a professional. Please do not attempt this at home. Or, on the road. Especially on the road.           ]]></description>
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          <title>AU SWIMMING &amp;amp; DIVING: Three Tigers head to World University Games</title>
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Auburn rising seniors Ava Ohlgren, Kelly Marx and Dan Mazzaferro are preparing for competition in the 25th World University Games, to be held today-Friday in Belgrade, Serbia.
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          <title>DIXIE ROUNDUP: Opelika rolls to easy victory</title>
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; The Opelika Dixie Jr. Boys (13) opened up the District tournament with a resounding win over East Montgomery on Friday night at Crump Park.
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          <title>LAKE REPORT: Keep on catching those bass</title>
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In early spring we talked about bass removal at the lake. I do not mean to be repetitive, but continuous bass removal at this time is imperative to sustain a healthy, well-balanced fishery. 
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          <title>DIXIE YOUTH: Smiths Station wins sub&#45;district title</title>
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VALLEY &#8212; The third time was a charm for Smiths Station in more ways than one in the Dixie Youth AAA (9-10) All-Star District 10 Sub-District 3 finals Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>DIXIE YOUTH: Arnold leads Opelika National to Sub&#45;District title</title>
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Forget the three batters he just walked in the final inning, Doss Arnold wasn&#8217;t coming off the mound.
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          <title>DIXIE YOUTH: Auburn Blue stays alive</title>
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VALLEY &#8212; Needing a win against Smiths Station to force another game, Auburn Blue came out swinging in the first inning Wednesday at the Valley Sportsplex.
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          <title>DIXIE ROUNDUP: Auburn 15&#45;16s win</title>
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The Auburn Dixie Majors (15-16) All-Stars claimed the district title with wins over Opelika and Southeastern Montgomery on Wednesday.
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          <title>AU ATHLETICS: Tigers land 63 athletes on SEC Academic Honor Roll</title>
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A total of 63 Auburn student-athletes have been named to the 2009 Southeastern Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll, it was announced Wednesday by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive.
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          <title>DIXIE ALL&#45;STARS: Beauregard 11&#45;12s force rubber match with Opelika National</title>
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After being remarkably solid all night, both Beauregard pitcher Hank Scott and the defense behind him started to crack in the sixth inning against Opelika National on Tuesday.
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          <title>DIXIE ALL&#45;STAR ROUNDUP: Auburn Orange wins sub&#45;district title</title>
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TUSKEGEE &#8212; Rowdey Jordan and Trey Woodham were each 3-for-3 as Auburn Orange beat Reeltown, 13-3, in four innings to win the Dixie AAA (9-10) All-Star District 10 Sub-District 1 championship Tuesday.
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          <title>DIXIE ALL&#45;STARS: Beulah&#8217;s AAAs hold off Dadeville</title>
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Smiths Station-Opelika National game not complete at press time.           ]]></description>
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UNION SPRINGS &#8212; Nathan Johnson got it done at the plate and on the pitcher&#8217;s mound Monday night as the Opelika American Dixie AAA (9-10) All-Star team beat Russell County, 16-1, in the District 10 Sub-District 2 tournament.
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          <title>AU FOOTBALL 2009 OPPONENT PREVIEWS: Bayou Bengals stronger at quarterback</title>
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Think of last year&#8217;s version of LSU as a mirror image of Auburn&#8217;s, but with just a tad more success from its two fledgling quarterbacks.
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          <title>DIXIE ROUNDUP: Auburn 14s pick up big win</title>
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; Auburn cruised to an 11-1 win over Montgomery Suburban in the Dixie Boys (14) Sub-District tournament at AUM on Sunday.
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          <title>AU ATHLETICS: AD Jacobs talks finances, football, future</title>
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When you&#8217;re the athletic director of one of the country&#8217;s largest athletic departments, there is no such thing as an offseason.           ]]></description>
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          <title>DIXIE LEAGUE: Auburn Orange AAA shuts out Beauregard, advances to semis</title>
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TUSKEGEE &#8212; Andrew Naismith went all six innings, striking out 12 and allowing just one hit, in the Auburn Orange AAA (9-10) All-Star team&#8217;s 3-0 victory over Beauregard in the second round of the District 10 Sub-District 1 tournament Saturday night.           ]]></description>
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          <title>AU TRACK &amp;amp; FIELD: Rowland claims national title</title>
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EUGENE, Ore. &#8212; Auburn rising sophomore Marcus Rowland won the 100-meter dash Friday at the U.S. Junior Outdoor Championships.
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          <title>DIXIE YOUTH: Opelika National cruises to AAA win over Dadeville</title>
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VALLEY - The hitters on Opelika National showed something Friday night at the Valley Sportsplex that will help them not only throughout their baseball careers, but throughout their entire lives.
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Beauregard starting pitcher Austin Mitchell worked quickly Friday night.
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By the time Opelika National relief pitcher Gage Young entered the game in the third inning, his team was already leading by 10 runs.
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Auburn Blue struck early and often to coast into the second round of the Dixie AAA (9-10) District 10 Sub-District 3 double-elimination tournament at the Valley Sportsplex.
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VALLEY - Smith Stations&#8217; Garrett Barr went the distance Friday, allowing just two hits and striking out six to help his team to a 12-2 victory over Beulah in an opening-round game at the DIxie AAA (9-10) District 10 Sub-District 3 double-elimination tournament.
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Beulah&#8217;s Kyler Fender and Trevon Brown combined to no-hit Valley in a 13-0 opening-round win of the Dixie Youth Major (11-12) District 10, Sub-District 3 All-Star tournament at West Ridge Park.
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Beauregard claimed an 11-0 win over Alexander City on Friday night in the Dixie Angels (9-10) District 5 tournament.
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          <title>LAKE REPORT: Starting the day can seem like a race</title>
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Doug Corley and Stan Richards, old friends of mine from my hometown of Phenix City, were at the gate the other morning when we opened. 
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          <title>AU ATHLETICS: Nominations sought for Sheffield Award</title>
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Nominations are being accepted through June 30 for the 2009 Pamela Wells Sheffield Award, which is presented annually to a woman who best embodies selfless service and commitment to Auburn University and the Auburn family.
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          <title>Locals fare well at Kids Golf event</title>
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COLUMBUS, Ga. &#8212; The U.S. Kids Golf Tour rolled on Thursday at the Bull Greek Golf Course East Course, as several local golfers turned in strong finishes.
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          <title>DIXIE YOUTH: Sub&#45;district tournaments start tonight</title>
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The boys and girls of summer are back and in full swing this weekend as All-Star Dixie baseball and softball tournaments begin.
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The Auburn Angels All-Stars got off to a rough start in the District 5 Tournament on Thursday night at Felton Little Park.
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Three members of the 2008 signing class are off the Auburn football team and will not return, associate athletic director of media relations Kirk Sampson confirmed Thursday.
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          <title>Herring, others give back to community through free football camp</title>
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For Will Herring, the task of organizing his now-annual free football camp in his native Opelika has been anything but arduous.
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Another stellar pitching performance.

Another Auburn Blue win.           ]]></description>
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SMITHS STATION &#8212; The Beauregard Machine Pitch All-Stars forced a decisive subdistrict championship game with two wins Wednesday night.
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Auburn and West Virginia are headed back to the primetime national spotlight.
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Chase Storm rained on any chance Auburn Orange had to clinch the Dixie Youth Major (11-12) All-Star district championship series Tuesday night.           ]]></description>
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Auburn landed its eighth commitment for the 2010 class late Monday night when three-star cornerback Jonathan Mincy announced his pledge to the Tigers.           ]]></description>
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In the second part of Opelika-Auburn News Auburn beat writer Andrew Gribble&#8217;s interview with Trooper Taylor, the Auburn assistant head coach/wide receivers coach discusses how his family helps on the recruiting trail, more on his recruiting philosophies and an outlook of sorts for the 2009 season.           ]]></description>
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Even before Kentucky senior defensive end Jeremy Jarmon&#8217;s career was ended by testing positive for a banned substance, the defensive-minded Wildcats had a glaring weakness to fill on the opposite end of the line.
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Eight-year veteran Nick Clinard, who led Central Florida to a top-10 finish in the 2009 NCAA Championship, has been named head men&#8217;s golf coach at Auburn, Athletics Director Jay Jacobs announced Sunday.
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Trooper Taylor&#8217;s office in the Auburn Athletic Complex serves as a gathering place for the masses.
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Over the past 15 years, Virgil Bolton has watched his grandson, Jacob Harper, grow into one of the best golfers in the state, literally from his back porch.
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VALLEY &#8212; Beauregard&#8217;s 9-10-year-old Angels All-Stars got off to a good start in their sub-district tourrnament, winning their first two games.
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Rowdy Gaines doesn&#8217;t have any of the three gold medals he won during the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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Auburn and Jacksonville State are set to play each other at Jordan-Hare Stadium sometime in the near future, according to a report in Friday&#8217;s Anniston Star.
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The Auburn equestrian team&#8217;s 2009-10 schedule was released Friday, and the Tigers will open the season Sept. 18 in a home doubleheader against TCU and SMU.
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While riding around on the golf cart the other day, I noticed Mama making a fool of herself on the front porch of the bait house. 
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Auburn is expected to see a 6-7 percent decline in revenue generated from 2009 season tickets, executive associate athletics director Tim Jackson said Wednesday.
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; Alabama&#8217;s summer conditioning program rolls on as football coach Nick Saban takes care of the last of the summer camps before a brief retreat to his summer place in Georgia.
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Sometimes, it&#8217;s just refreshing to feel humbled. 
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I ran cross country and track for four years in high school.&nbsp;  &nbsp;   
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Stephen Kohlscheen has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball for Auburn beginning in the 2010 season, Auburn head coach John Pawlowski announced. 
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Former Auburn women&#8217;s basketball players DeWanna Bonner and Le&#8217;Coe Willingham are coming off a big week as the pair helped the WNBA&#8217;s Phoenix Mercury to a 4-1 overall record and first place in the Western Conference.
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There&#8217;s a method behind Jeff Grimes&#8217; lack of madness.
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The University of Alabama, which turned itself in to the NCAA for widespread violations in its textbook distribution program, will appeal the sanctions that resulted from the case.
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Auburn has been awarded a grant of $26,400 from the NCAA to aid in the marketing of women&#8217;s basketball for the 2009-10 season. 
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Former Auburn third baseman Joseph Sanders inked a deal with the Rockies sometime this week, the club announced on its official Web site Wednesday.
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Before you go ahead and hand Tiger Woods his fourth U.S. Open trophy, indulge me for a second.
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Auburn offensive line coach Jeff Grimes knows from experience.           ]]></description>
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Aairon Savage, who missed the entire 2008 season with a nasty knee injury, sustained an unknown injury during a recent summer workout, coach Gene Chizik said in an ambiguous statement Tuesday.
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Former All-Americans Aaron Ciarla and Carrie McCambridge have been promoted to assistant coaches in the Auburn swimming and diving program, announced head coach Brett Hawke on Tuesday.
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Hayden Hillyer hit .478 and had a .623 on-base percentage to be named the Opelika-Auburn News&#8217; Hitter of the Year.           ]]></description>
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As one of only four seniors on Auburn High&#8217;s baseball team, Reid Carter was expected to carry a lot of weight during this past season, both on the field and in the leadership department.
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Auburn High&#8217;s state championship run was a special one for coach Matt Cimo.           ]]></description>
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The 2009 Opelika-Auburn News All-Area Baseball Team            ]]></description>
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Glenwood&#8217;s Ollivia McLemore and Central&#8217;s Erin Tyson grew up playing softball together.
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Peyton DeLong has fallen just short of her personal goals during her first two years playing softball at Beauregard.
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When he learned he had been named AISA softball Coach of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association on June 5, Dusty Perdue kept it under his hat.
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With Auburn entrenched in turmoil just days following Tony Franklin&#8217;s firing, Arkansas came to Jordan-Hare Stadium in 2008 and played like a legitimate team on the rise.
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Former Auburn golfer Jason Dufner (-11) tied for seventh at the St. Jude Classic after jumping seven spots on Sunday, closing out the event with a 5-under 65.&nbsp; 
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Chuck Furlow sat in his office at Auburn High School, surrounded by reminders of a career well spent.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &#8211; Auburn sophomore Joanna Atkins won a national championship in the 400 meters to highlight the final day of the NCAA Championships for the Tigers.
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Almost three months after he felt his team was slighted in missing the NCAA tournament, Jeff Lebo hasn&#8217;t had a change of heart.
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Brandon Jacobs may not be on his way to the big leagues after all.
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; The NCAA hit Alabama&#8217;s football program where it hurts &#8212; the Tide&#8217;s famed history.
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Early Thursday morning, Billy Horne came to the lake pulling his boat.&nbsp; It&#8217;s common to see Billy on the lake, sometimes alone. 
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As of 6:43 last night, Auburn Junior High school had a new ISS teacher.
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The Richard Quick Memorial Fund has been established by his family for those who choose to honor his life by making a donation. 
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; The NCAA placed Alabama&#8217;s football program and 15 other of the school&#8217;s athletic teams on three years probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks.
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Auburn men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s head swimming and diving coach Richard Quick, who was diagnosed with an inoperable cancerous brain tumor in December, passed away Wednesday at the age of 66. 
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Joseph Sanders spent the past four weeks away from Auburn, the place where he morphed from a proficient hitter for average to a bona fide slugger with the same reliable swing.
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Recent Beauregard graduate Kaley Glover, who finished 11th at the AHSAA Class 5A state cross country meet last fall, will join the University of Montevallo&#8217;s cross country team this fall, Montevallo cross country coach Michael Marquardt announced Wednesday.
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In Auburn high jumper Raevan Harris&#8217; head, there is no such thing as a hometown discount.           ]]></description>
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More than two months after assistant John Cooper left Auburn for the head coaching position at Tennessee State, Tigers coach Jeff Lebo found his new right-hand man Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s one thing Auburn baseball coach John Pawlowski has learned about the Major League Baseball amateur draft and the subsequent effect it has on his team.           ]]></description>
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Brady Newman, who graduated from Reeltown High School this year, played in the finals of the East-West All-Star tournament in Birmingham on May 29 and 30.
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Edgard da Gama e Silva Filho, who spent last season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Auburn volleyball team, has been promoted to assistant coach, head coach Wade Benson announced Monday.           ]]></description>
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Just in case you&#8217;ve forgotten &#8212; and you probably have &#8212; there&#8217;s more to Tennessee&#8217;s football team than Lane Kiffin.
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Auburn High and Beauregard&#8217;s baseball teams each enjoyed historic seasons this past spring.
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The first return of Big Cat Weekend and Tiger Prowl was felt Friday when the state&#8217;s top wide receiver committed to the Tigers.
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Dusty Perdue is not one to mince words.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. &#8212; Auburn junior Candace Schepperle carded a 2-over-par 74 to finish in a tie for 110th Friday after the second round of the LPGA&#8217;s State Farm Classic.
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There are several topics that need to be covered this week, therefore in the interest of space the normal article which usually accompanies the Lake Report will not be in this report, but will resume next week.
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