Austin Peay State University Governors sports coverage.
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.
After two weeks at home, Austin Peay State University women’s basketball will head back on the road for an in-state, Ohio Valley Conference battle at 11 a.m., Thursday, against Tennessee State at the Gentry Center in Nashville.
With the spring tennis season underway, the Ohio Valley Conference has released its first set of weekly honors, with Austin Peay State University junior Fabienne Schmidt being named the OVC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.