Sports

Hannah Greene | Sports Editor Western Oregon offers a variety of club sports, some being Tier I — competitive play with seasons and multiple games/tournaments — and Tier II which do not normally compete and are more of a gathering of people with similar interests....

Paul F. Davis | Managing Editor Four Western baseball players, center Jared McDonald and pitchers Alex Roth, Austin Crowson and Koty Fallon, made history on June 3-5 by becoming the largest class of Western baseball players to be signed in a single MLB draft. Jared...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief Soccer Co-Rec, Tuesday-Thursday Evenings Look ma, no hands! (6-0) Los Linguistas (5-1) Dunder Mifflin (4-3) Your Goalie’s Nightmare (3-2) Head Game Strong (3-4) Grace & The Funky Bunch (1-6) Team World (0-6)   Softball Co-Rec...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief Each athlete below was chosen for a number of different reasons, including their stats for this season, their stats for their entire career at Western and the records they made while here. Take a look at the trading cards below for the...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief This year proved to be a successful one for Club Sports — each team had something to be proud of, and each had players worth recognizing. The coaches of each sport were asked to nominate their top player and their top rookie of the year;...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief On the weekend of May 25-27, three Western Oregon Rugby All-Stars headed to Houston, Texas to battle it out and see which regional team would come out on top. A week prior to this game, the men were already aware that seniors Alex Treat...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief This year, first-year lacrosse player Jonathan Williams, an exercise science major, was named 3rd Team All American under the MCLA. This is the first time since 2015 that a player has achieved an All-American ranking; a feat that Williams...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief On April 26, 2017, The Western Journal published a story titled “The Motown Throwdown,” written by our then Sports Editor, Burke De Boer. The story delved into the tradition that occurred each Spring at Western, then called Oregon College...

Paul F. Davis | Managing Editor While most students were in class thinking about what they wanted to do the upcoming weekend instead of listening to their professors, Western Oregon’s Softball team was making history. The Wolves’s Softball team tied Western’s all-time...

Caity Healy | Editor-in-Chief This spring, Haley Fabian, a senior business major, took her final year at Western as an opportunity to prove herself on the field as a fierce competitor. She earned First Team All-GNAC accolades, and she was a D2CCA All-West Region...