2008 Woodie Awards
Sports Briefs
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: Sports
MT scores 13 straight in win over UT
Middle Tennessee scored 13-straight runs to beat Tennessee Tuesday 13-6.
The Blue Raiders (19-14-1) racked up 18 hits against the Volunteers (22-14), who went up 5-0 in the third inning on a grand slam by Cody Brown.
Middle Tennessee used four consecutive one-out doubles to cut into the Volunteers' lead in the bottom of the third. Rawley Bishop's double drove in one run, and two more runners crossed on a double by Zach Dean.
Blake McDade hit a two-run home run to put the Raiders up 9-5 in the bottom of the fifth.
Athletic Dept. inducts 10 into Honor Society
Middle Tennessee's athletic department inducted its fourth class into the Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society Seven of the 10 student-athletes were female. The women honored were Brandi Brown (basketball), Nenita Burgess (soccer), Leslie Clark (volleyball), Martha Davis (softball), Ashley Mead (volleyball), Jackie Pickel (basketball) and Leigh Wilkins (golf).
Three baseball players represent all of the men's honorees - redshirt sophomore Dillon Heath and redshirt sophomore Justin Jones and junior Brett Smalley.
Chi Alpha Sigma is a non-profit organization established to recognize college students who earn a varsity letter in at least one sport while maintaining a 3.4 or higher cumulative GPA throughout their junior and senior years. The goal of the organization is to recognize outstanding academic achievement by intercollegiate athletes.
Middle Tennessee has now inducted a total of 61 student-athletes into the society after just four years of eligibility. In 2005, the first year Blue Raider student-athletes could be inducted, a total of 26 were recognized.
Titans 2008 schedule released
A Monday night game against the Indianapolis Colts and a Thanksgiving date with the Detroit Lions highlight the 2008 Tennessee Titans schedule released Tuesday.
The Titans will host the Colts on Monday, Oct. 27, their first primetime home game since 2004. Tennessee will make its fifth appearance in franchise history on Thanksgiving at Detroit on Nov. 27.
The Titans schedule features home games against Cleveland, Green Bay, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Minnesota, the New York Jets and Pittsburgh.
Tennessee will travel to Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Kansas City.
The Titans open the season at home against the Jaguars on Sept. 7.
The Associated Press and MT Media Relations contributed to this article.
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