By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Wolves lost 45-65 to Western Washington and 49-60 to Simon Fraser. Junior guard Shelby Snook put up 19 points against 15th-ranked Western Washington. Junior forward Savannah Heugly made her second start in a row, and put up 9 points...
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Pro women’s hockey fights for a future
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor It was only recently that women hockey players in this country began to be paid for their sport. Now the National Women’s Hockey League is midway through its second season and the Boston Pride tops the table. The three teams below them...
Men’s Basketball goes 3-1 on Road
By: TK Layman staff writer Western Oregon Wolves Men’s Basketball finished a two-week road trip with a pair of wins last week. The Wolves ended up edging out the Northwest NazareneCrusaders in a 69-67 victory. Ali Faruq-Bey totaled a team high 23 points that night,...
Baseball old timers make hall of fame
By: TK Layman Staff Writer The MLB Hall of Fame inducts the best players from years past, enshrining them forever as baseball’s greatest of all time. For a player to be elected to the Hall of Fame, they must receive 75 percent of the total votes from the Baseball...
Wolves rally over Northwest Nazarene
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Junior guard Sydney Azorr put up the first double-double of her collegiate career to snap a three-game losing skid. Last week’s action opened with a loss to Central Washington in a game where the women’s basketball team never had the...
Men’s basketball tested in Alaska
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Wolves had their most dominant win of the season in Fairbanks on Saturday, Jan. 21, and came away from a trip to Alaska with a win and a loss. Junior guard Demetrius Trammell impressed in both games in Alaska, first scoring a...
Super Bowl matchup settled
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor A pair of blowouts on Sunday set the stage for the biggest sporting event in the country. The Atlanta Falcons will face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI. The Falcons clobbered the Green Bay Packers 44-21 to claim the NFC title....
Back from the brink to leave it all on the rink
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Canada may very well be back in 2017. The 2016 National Hockey League season was characterized by an all-American playoff race. For the first time in 46 years, not a single Canadian team posted a good enough record to make it into the...
Men’s basketball fights hard through conference play
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Men’s basketball split a pair of home games last week: beating Simon Fraser then falling to Western Washington. JJ Chirnside broke the Western Oregon school record for blocked shots in a single game, a record that dated back to 1988, by...
High-scoring Snook not enough to sneak out win
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor It was a tough week on the road for the Wolves, who suffered losses visiting Concordia and Montana State Billings. A 30-point performance from Shelby Snook in Billings wasn’t enough for the Wolves to return to Monmouth with a win....