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Veterans Memorial Stadium gets audio-visual upgrades

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Megan Phillips Staff Writer  This year, fans watching Trojan football will enjoy an entirely new and improved audio-visual experience, as Troy University unveiled its brand new Daktronics projects for the 2014 season. Daktronics was founded in 1968 and manufactures large-format LED video displays for locations around the globe. Among these projects is a new video board located in the southeast corner of Veterans Memorial Stadium that will measure 23 feet high by 54 feet wide. This board will feature a 15HD pixel layout that provides viewers with a clearer image…

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Softball falls to Rajun’ Cajuns in doubleheader

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Megan Phillips Staff Writer  Saturday, April 19, was not a good day for the Troy softball team, now 2-10 in the Sun Belt Conference, as they dropped both games in a doubleheader against the Ragin’ Cajuns of Louisiana-Lafayette at home. Due to rain, game one and two of the series was canceled on Friday, April 18, and the Trojans only played the Ragin’ Cajuns in one doubleheader on Saturday instead. The first game, at noon, saw a 5-0 loss for the Trojans as they simply were not able to work…

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Softball burns Blazers and Mavericks

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Megan Phillips  Staff Writer  Last Thursday night, April 10, the softball team traveled to Birmingham where they faced off against Sun Belt rival the UAB Blazers in a single-game battle for the victory and then headed to Texas to take on UT Arlington. The UAB game showed both teams to be evenly matched, with Troy taking an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. In the first, Troy loaded the bases with one out when sophomore outfielder Amanda Winters came to the plate, hitting a single to…

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ULM sweeps softball team

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Megan Phillips  Staff Writer    Trojan softball hit the road once again as they traveled to Monroe, La. to face Louisiana-Monroe University in conference play last weekend. Saturday, April 5, saw a double header for the teams as they met on the field at 2 p.m. to face one another toe to toe for nine long innings. This game was clearly a battle of the pitchers as the Trojan’s junior Jaycee Affeldt held the Warhawks to only three hits in over eight innings of play. Unfortunately, the Warhawks’ redshirt senior…

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Softball breaks eight game losing streak

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Megan Phillips Staff Writer    The Troy softball team returned to its home field in order to face the Georgia State Panthers, playing a doubleheader on Saturday, March 29 and finishing up the series on Sunday, March 30. In game one on Saturday, the Trojans were slow to start, going without a score for the first six innings, and allowing the Panthers to take a 6-0 lead. However, when all hope seemed lost, Troy showed up to the game with an amazing rally, which hinged largely on a home run…

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