Category: Sports

  • Voices from the Crowd: Despite injuries, Cubs still favorites to win National League

    Despite injuries, Cubs still favorites to win National League Coming into the 2018 season, the Chicago Cubs had the most complete roster they may have ever bolstered. While they had lost notable pitching in starter Jake Arrieta and closer Wade Davis, the Cubs front office and Theo Epstein went out and signed a closer, Brandon…

  • Scots fight hard, come up short in doubleheader sweep

    Chloe Burdette Contributing Writer The Fighting Scots softball team played respectably but came up short in a pair of tightly contested North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) games against the Ohio Wesleyan (OWU) Battling Bishops. With chilly conditions putting runs at a premium, OWU won Game 1 by a 6-3 margin and capped the sweep with…

  • Men’s and women’s golf teams shine at NCAC Championships

    Sam Kuhn Senior Sports Writer This past weekend, the men’s and women’s golf teams traveled to the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championships, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University and Westbrook Country Club. After three rounds this weekend, the men finished sixth and the women finished fourth. For the men, Colin O’Hern ’21’s and Morgan Gronau…

  • North Face campaign highlights importance of wage gap in sports

    Recently, I was flipping through Time magazine when a cool North Face ad caught my eye. It shows Brazilian endurance runner Fernanda Maciel scaling the side of a mountain. While it always inspires me to see strong female athletes, this ad made me do a double take. Shown in black and white with black and…

  • Track and field preps for NCACs

    Anna Hartig Staff Writer The College of Wooster women’s and men’s track and field teams traveled to Granville, Ohio last weekend for the Denison Invitational on April 27. Throughout the weekend events, a select few student-athletes continued to compete at the two-day North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Decathlon/Heptathlon held in Oberlin, Ohio on April 28-29.…

  • Golf teams each take second in shortened tournament

    Anna Hartig Staff Writer The College of Wooster women’s and men’s golf teams earned second place in competitive tournaments this past weekend. The men’s team hosted the Nye Intercollegiate tournament at the par-72, 6,545-yard Wooster Country Club while the women competed in the Wooster Spring Invitational at the par-72, 5,803-yard Mohican Hills Golf Club in…