Category: Sports

  • Volleyball team gets back on track at home

    It may be true, what some people say: history does like to repeat itself. For the second year in a row, the Wooster volleyball team found themselves struggling with the first few weeks of their season, posting a 2-6 record through last week. And for the second year in a row, they flipped a switch,…

  • Men win Sayre Invitation

    The College of Wooster Fighting Scots Cross Country team attended the first annual Ric Sayre Invitational that was hosted by Walsh University. Despite the rainy conditions, the men’s team finished in first while the women’s team placed third. Four teams compete in the men’s field. The Fighting Scots finished five runners in the top 10…

  • Men’s soccer team wins two in unpredictable year

    Looking back on the first six games of the 2008 men’s soccer season, the only word that comes to mind is unpredictability. Starting out, the team held immense expectations due primarily to the amount of veteran talent they possessed. After losing two in a row on the road to Aurora and Heidelberg, however, the early…

  • Women start 6-0 for first time in school’s history

    Coming off a dominant shutout victory over Marietta, the College of Wooster women’s soccer team entered the weekend looking to continue their defensive dominance and to extend their impressive 4-0 record. In Saturday’s match against Bethany College, the Scots matched a season-high four goals on a wet day in Wooster. The lone goal in the…

  • Rounding Third

    Five years ago I was 13 years old and the Chicago Cubs made their last postseason run. I watched every game and spent many a school night postponing homework to watch the Cubs play. I was so obsessed that during my own bar mitzvah celebration, I ended up asking people I knew with cell phones…

  • Field hockey wins 6-3

    During the season’s first two weekends, it was if two utterly different teams had taken the field for the Scots. In the team’s first two games, defense reigned supreme as the team picked up two early victories. The following weekend, the team allowed a total of 10 goals as the team lost a pair on…