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Seawolves will throw an experienced defense at the Ducks

Stony Brook will bring an experienced defense into Autzen Stadium and will do their best to stand toe-to-toe with the Ducks.

Giving up just three points in a football game is no joke, no matter who you play, at either the FCS or FBS level.

In Stony Brook’s last contest, the Seawolves allowed Colgate a field goal on their opening possession and that’s it. For the next 53 minutes, the Raiders were held off the scoreboard in the 24-3 Stony Brook victory.

The Seawolves put out a defense filled with seniors and graduate seniors and it’s that same group that will try to hold their own against the No. 4 Oregon Ducks.

They’re led by linebacker Reidgee Dimanche, a fifth-year senior that was named second-team preseason All-Colonial Athletic Conference by Phil Steele. In 2019, Dimanche started all 12 games, and his 87 total tackles were the second-most on the team.

Dimanche isn’t the only experienced player on the Seawolves defense. Of the 11 starters, 10 are redshirt juniors or older. Redshirt freshman linebacker Tyler King is the only underclassman starting.

According to Stony Brook defensive coordinator Rob Noel, King used the extra practice time this past spring to his full advantage.

“He was injured for most of the spring, but Tyler prepared in a way to where he was ready to stand up and take his moment,” he told the Seawolves student media before the season began. “Since he’s done that, he’s been able to run with it.”

Stony Brook will present a hybrid of the 3-4 defense, something that might take Oregon a little time to get used to. Casey Williams, a 6-foot-2 fifth-year senior, plays a position the Seawolves call “Anchor.” It’s similar to what Kayvon Thibodeaux plays for the Ducks, a combination of defensive end and linebacker.

Williams started all 12 games in 2019 and collected 44 total tackles with 17 solo stops…Recorded at least one tackle in all 12 games with six games with at least four tackles. Against Colgate last week, Williams managed just three tackles, but he had 1.5 tackles for loss and a sack.

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Auburn softball hoping to turn season around against Texas A&M

Now 1-8 in conference play and 19-11 overall, the Tigers look to turn things around against a 25-9 Texas A&M squad on the road.

Auburn softball entered the month of March on top of the world. Eleven straight wins improved the Tigers record to 16-1 and saw the ladies rise all the way to No. 7 in the NCAA RPI.

Since then the Tigers have lost 10 games. In those 10 games:

  • four of the losses were shutouts
  • the Tigers allowed more than five runs in four of the losses
  • the Tigers scored fewer than three runs in nine of the ten losses

Now 1-8 in conference play and 19-11 overall, the Tigers look to turn things around against a 25-9 Texas A&M squad on the road.

They’ll have to find a spark offensively to escape College Station with a series victory. As of right now Makenna Dowell (junior) and Tyler King (senior) are the only two Auburn starters with batting averages over .300, meanwhile Texas A&M has five. The Tigers will most likely face off against Makinzy Herzog, Grace Uribe, and Kayla Poynter on the mound all of which have produced a combined 165 strikeouts for the Aggies.

Despite getting swept, the Aggies put up 16 total runs against No. 4 Alabama last weekend. Head coach Mickey Dean acknowledged their hot bats and emphasized, “it’s important we pitch smart, play good defense and score early. I think if we score early, we will kind of relax a little bit.”

Defensively Auburn will likely start freshman Shelby Lowe (0.88 ERA, 0.84 WHIP, 118 SO), freshman Maddie Penta (2.64 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 76 SO), and sophomore KK Dismukes (1.30 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 32 SO) on the mound.

Auburn head coach Mickey Dean recently detailed how he and this team are working together on making improvements:

“Before you can ever experience success, you are going to experience failure. You hope it doesn’t happen as a group, but sometimes it does. It’s not a physical battle. It’s a mental battle. As a coach, you can focus on the negative or focus on the positive. There has to be a mixture. If players are going to play well, they have to feel about what they are doing. If they don’t feel good about what they are doing, they’re not going to play well. A lot of that is what you say to them. You still want them to be positive going into a game even when they have things to work on.”

The Tigers’ series opener against Texas A&M begins at 6 p.m. CST Friday on SEC Network Plus.