2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
The ETSU softball team received strong efforts from Ashley Boyd (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Darci Gilbert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) in the circle and the Lady Bucs as a team provided some explosive offense en route to its sixth sweep of the season over Wednesday afternoon from Metro-Kiwanis Park.
Top-seeded and 37th-ranked ETSU Bucs tennis team dropped the 56th-ranked Stetson Hatters, 4-0 on Sunday afternoon in route to their second consecutive Atlantic Sun conference title and NCAA berth. The Bucs improve to 23-3 overall while the Hatters fall to 21-5.
In a match that came down to the two ETSU seniors the Lady Bucs fell, 4-2 in a heartbreaker to Jacksonville in the Atlantic Sun championship match. The end their season at 14-11 while the Dolphins clinch the NCAA berth for the second consecutive season. Jacksonville claimed the doubles point in the No.
ETSU senior Gareth Shaw (Lisburn, Northern Ireland) and freshman Rhys Enoch (Cornwall, England) battled at the top of the individual leaderboard and ultimately finished first and second, respectively, but those exceptional efforts were not enough to lift the Buccaneers' men's golf team to their second straight team championship Wednesday in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships at Chateau Elan's Woodlands Course.
The ETSU baseball team put on a clinic for the?youth from Kingsport on Monday night in Kingsport at Hunter Wright Stadium. The Bucs teamed up with the Kingsport Parks and Recreation to put on this clinic where the kids learned the fundamentals of fielding, hitting and base running.