Friday night the Lady Buccaneers took on the Kennesaw State Owls in Brooks Gymnasium. The Lady Bucs are ahead of Kennesaw by only one spot in the A-Sun Conference as of Oct. 3, so it was possible that this could have been a tight game. The team proved there is a reason they are ahead in the rankings.
The Mountain States Health Alliance Buccaneer Sports Network will begin the 2008-09 season Thursday night with the first Inside Buc Sports radio show of the new year at 7 p.m. inside Fanatics restaurant at the Doubletree Hotel in Johnson City. The coaches show broadcast will launch an exciting new year for the MSHA Buccaneer Sports Network, a season that will include a combined 60 live radio broadcasts of ETSU men's basketball, women's basketball and baseball, over 80 live audio broadcasts of selected Buccaneer events at ETSUBucs.
For the second straight year, ETSU guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) is the preseason pick by both coaches and the media to be the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year. Meanwhile, Pigram and the Buccaneers were picked to finish second by the coaches and third by the media in preseason A-Sun voting released Wednesday by the conference office.
Coming off its first-ever Atlantic Sun regular season and tournament titles in program history, the ETSU women's basketball team will be counted on to defend the crown, as the Lady Buccaneers were selected first in both the conference coaches' and media polls on Wednesday.
Brinkman's goals lift ETSU women past USC Upstate, 2-1 Sophomore midfielder Kelly Brinkman (Clearwater, Fla.) scored a pair of goals in less than three minutes midway through the first half, lifting the ETSU women's soccer team to a 2-1 win over Atlantic Sun Conference foe USC Upstate Tuesday evening at County University Soccer Stadium.