Austin Peay State University Governors sports coverage.

Austin Peay State University’s football team, the defending Ohio Valley Conference champion, will play five home games during an 11-game schedule in 2020, the athletics department announced today.

Austin Peay State University men’s tennis picked up a trio of singles wins against Wright State, but the Governors dropped a close match to the Raiders, 4-3, Saturday at the South Regency Tennis Center.

It was a perfect weekend on the road for the Austin Peay State University women’s tennis, as the Governors posted a pair of 7-0 sweeps against Dayton, Friday, and Wright State, Saturday, to improve their winning streak to five matches.

After a dominant performance Thursday night, Austin Peay State University women’s basketball was unable to put it all together again; as a slow start to the night on the offensive end doomed the Governors, who fell to Belmont, 69-46, Saturday in the Curb Event Center.

Two weeks ago Austin Peay State University women’s basketball dropped a heartbreaker to Belmont in the Dunn Center, Saturday the Governors will make the short trip down I-24 to Nashville for a 3 p.m. contest where they will look to return the favor to the Bruins at the Curb Event Center.

Austin Peay State University sophomore center fielder Garrett Spain, the 2019 Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, was named to the league’s preseason all-conference team, Friday.

In one month, Austin Peay State University’s beach volleyball team begins its fourth season as it prepares for the inaugural Ohio Valley Conference beach volleyball championship in a 26-match schedule released, Thursday.

It may not have been the biggest crowd Austin Peay State University women’s basketball has faced on the road this season, but it certainly was the loudest, as 3,100 students from the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools were in attendance at the Gentry Center to watch the Governors rout Tennessee State, 87-55, Thursday.