Category: Sports

Anna Hartig Staff Writer The College of Wooster swimming and diving teams are traveling this Wednesday to Denison University for the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championships. The event, starting at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 14, will last four days until Feb. 17. After a successful last meet held at the University of Mount Union…

In exciting news from the world of college basketball, three DI college basketball teams from Ohio are ranked in the top 16 in the Associated Press poll for the week. The DI men’s basketball committee gave a sneak peek of its top 16 teams as of Sunday, Feb. 11. Xavier is in the third spot,…

Sam Kuhn Senior Sportswriter On Saturday, Feb. 10, the men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Westerville, Ohio to compete in the All-Ohio Championships. To highlight the meet, the Scots compiled three top-five finishes and five top-eight finishes on the day. Jack Petrecca ’19 won the high jump with a personal best of…

Ashley Ferguson Sports Editor Just three points separated both the winning men’s and women’s basketball teams from conference rival Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) on Saturday, Feb. 10 at Timken Gymnasium. Early in the afternoon, the women overcame a 14-point deficit in the final quarter to best OWU 68-65. Then, the men topped the Battling Bishops…

Going into the 2017-18 NBA season, I was very optimistic about the Cleveland Cavaliers. Even after trading star point guard Kyrie Irving to Boston in August, I felt that the team had enough pieces to compete for the NBA Championship in June. Although the team was old and lacked chemistry, I was confident that LeBron…

Roger An Contributing Writer The Wooster Fighting Scots hosted a thriller versus the Denison Big Red this past Saturday as the Conference rivals battled it out in Wooster’s Timken Gymnasium. France native Alex Baptiste ’18 started out the game with a layup to give the Scots the lead in the opening minutes. After a Denison…