Category: Sports

  • Women’s golf swings sixth at tourney

    Aleksi Pelkonen Sports Editor The College of Wooster Fighting Scots women’s golf team took home a sixth-place finish at the Allegheny College Women’s Invitational on last Sunday and Monday. The Scots finished sixth out of 12 teams, and finished ahead of conference rival Allegheny College. Fellow NCAC competitors Wittenberg University and Denison University finished second…

  • NFL coaches are abysmal at math

    It kills me to spend hours every Sunday watching a game where players sacrifice so much only for coaches to hurt their own chances of winning by failing to understand basic arithmetic. In the 2015 NFL season, point(s)-after-touchdown attempts (P.A.T.s) were set up to incentivize teams going for two. Instead of extra point attempts being…

  • Wooster’s longtime diving coach inducted into Hall of Fame

    Megan Zerrer Sports Editor Rich Blough, The College of Wooster’s current assistant diving coach, was inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame last Friday, Sept. 23 at a ceremony in Atlanta, Ga., He was the lone diver to be inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame this class. Blough attended Hiram…

  • Men’s frisbee team opens season at Air Strike tournament

    Ashley Ferguson Contributing Writer Wooster’s RamJam ultimate frisbee team competed in its first tournament of the season last weekend at Wright State University in Versailles, Oh. The two teams placed 5th and 15th in the Air Strike men’s ultimate competition among a field of bigger schools. RamJam’s Team X and Team Y were two of…

  • Women’s cross country team earns tenth out of nineteen

    Shelley Grostefon Senior Sports Writer Last Saturday, Sept. 17, the women’s cross country team had a strong showing at the Otterbein Invitational in Westerville, Oh. The women’s team placed 10th out of 19 teams competing, composed of a pool of undeniably tough DI, II and III schools. Kayla Zboran ’17 led the Scots in the…

  • Men’s soccer comes up short against Earlham in the second half

    Megan Zerrer Sports Editor The Fighting Scots men’s soccer team came out strong in their first home match of the season against Earlham College. The Scots took the lead against the Quakers when Manny Burton ’20 found Mouhamet Ndiaye ’18 open on the left flank. Ndiaye cut in toward the box and placed the ball…