Men's Basketball

With summer comes camps, and Mississippi State basketball coach Ben Howland is offering four different opportunities in June to get involved.

First on the docket is a team camp slated for June 2-3 at the cost of $225 for one day for $400 for both. Three divisions (Elite, Varsity and JV) will be offered and teams are guaranteed three games a day.

Next will be the Overnight Camp for kids in grades 6-12 June 18-20. The cost is $300 for overnight and $250 for commuter.

Then on June 26-29, MSU will offer both a Day Camp and Little Bulldog Camp.

The Day Camp is for kids in grades 3-12 and costs $250, while he Little Bulldog Camp is designed for kids grades K-2 and is $125.

All individual camps will consist of skill work in the morning, including ball handling, defensive fundamentals, shooting and passing. After lunch, campers will play in competitive 5-on-5 games.

Each camper must provide a current physical or signed physician's statement. They will also be required to fill out medical release forms.

The registration deadline is May 30 for team camp, and there will be a limit on the number of teams accepted, so please register as soon as possible.

The online registration deadline for individual camps are June 15 for Overnight Camp and June 22 for Day and Little Bulldog Camp.

Please note that there is a $30 walk up fee for all those that wish to register on the day of the camp.

For more information or to register, visit www.hailstate.com /camps.

Softball

AUBURN, Ala. – A seventh-inning rally from the No. 9 Auburn Tigers (42-8, 14-6 SEC) ended in a walk off for the home team, as the Mississippi State Bulldogs (34-17, 8-12 SEC) dropped a 6-2 contest Saturday night in Auburn.

Caroline Seitz and Bevia Robinson once again paced the MSU offense, along with Olivia Golden. Robinson topped the team with her fifth multi-hit showing in the last six games and team-leading 15th of the season, going 2-for-3 for the night. She is now 11-for-19 in her last six games and is riding a six-game hitting streak, one shy of her career high.

Golden and Seitz provided State's second and third home runs of the weekend, coming in the third and fourth frames. Reggie Harrison and Amanda Ivy also both turned in a hit, giving the Dogs a total of six for the game.

Just as they did Friday night, the Bulldogs opened up the scoring with a homer in the third, as Olivia Golden launched a solo shot to left field. Her fifth bomb of the year gave MSU an early 1-0 lead. Seitz followed in the fourth, smashing her second home run of the season with a solo blast of her own. She now has eight homers this season and 36 for her career. She is now one shy of former Bulldog All-American Iyhia McMichael (2001-04) for second place on State's alltime homers list.

That homer also bumped her career-high hitting streak up to 13-straight games.

MSU starter Alexis Silkwood kept the Tigers off the board for the first four frames. Auburn broke through in the fifth with an RBI single to cut State's lead down to 2-1. After going down in order in the sixth, Auburn began its rally in the seventh, starting with a leadoff home run to left to tie things up at 2-2. Back-to-back singles and a walk loaded the bases for the Tigers, who hit a walk-off grand slam to seal the 6-2 victory.

MSU and No. 9 Auburn will close out the series today with a 1 p.m. showdown on SEC Network +. Fans can catch the action online on WatchESPN.com or the ESPN app.

Track and Field

BATON ROUGE, La. – At the inaugural Southeastern Conference Relays, the Bulldogs captured five victories and accumulated 84 team points to finish fourth overall.

In an event designed to test the skills of the teams in the Southeastern Conference before the SEC Outdoor Championships, MSU passed the test and proved it belongs in the best track conference in the nation.

After Logan Boss picked up a high jump victory Friday, Saturday began with top collegiate javelin unit taking first and second. Nicolas Quijera won with a throw of 73.36 meters, and Curtis Thomspon finished just behind him at 70.58 meters.

The next squad to pick up a victory came when MSU's shuttle hurdle group of Willie Reed, Herbert Wise, JaQuarius Wilson and Ro'Derick Spears won with a time of 57.43.

MSU's DMR group continued with the hot streak they have been on throughout 2017, and picked up a victory Saturday with a time of 11:20.59 which is the third best time in program history.

Tiffany Flynn improved upon her school record in a triple jump victory, jumping 13.37 meters. Freshman Alexis Farley also improved upon her program freshman record and grabbed fourth, jumping 12.95 meters which is the second best mark in school history.

Freshman Stephen Jones ran the best time of any newcomer in the 1500 meters, running 4:01.16 to finish eighth overall.