By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Wolves softball traveled to Las Vegas for their first taste of competition in 2017. The season started hit-and-miss, and after three days of gameplay the Wolves are now at 2-3. The first day was the hardest, as the Wolves suffered two...
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Get amped for baseball
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Wolves were ranked second in the GNAC preseason poll, and pitcher Brady Miller was named an All-American as high hopes were extended to Western Oregon Baseball. The college baseball season is upon us. It would already be here, but...
Record-setting weekend for indoor track
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Wolves track and field team was named the GNAC team of the week after an incredible showing at the University of Washington Invitational. The indoor track event saw Western Oregon break two conference records and five school...
Dispatches from the sports desk
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Washington Wizards opened the year terribly, going 2-8 but turned things around and have the best record in the east over the last two months. Just last week, they dressed in all-black to put their rivalry with the Celtics to rest....
Defensive skills not enough
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...
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...
