By: Burke De Boer sports editor As they prepared for the GNAC championships, the Western Oregon track and field team traveled to Corvallis to compete in the Oregon State High Performance, a two-day meet on April 28 and 29. Senior Aaron Whitaker set a new school record...
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Wolves on the cusp
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Sophomore pitcher Haley Fabian led Wolves softball to three victories over the weekend. The Wolves traveled north for a long weekend, playing four games against Western Washington and two against Simon Fraser, beginning on April 21. The...
Baseball splits series with Concordia
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Wolves went 2-2 across a pair of doubleheaders over the weekend facing Concordia. The matchup positioned the top of the GNAC Wolves against the conference’s bottom ranked team for a surprisingly even two days of competition. In the...
The Motown Throwdown
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor In the far-out year of 1975, a motley pack of punks set upon the Old PE Building to beat one another bloody. Hundreds of Western students, then called the Oregon College of Education students, came together to dig on the wild fist...
Softball sees success in Portland
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor A trip to Portland saw Wolves softball win three of four games against Concordia to continue their climb up the conference ladder. After an additional double header in Hillsboro, Western Oregon extended their win streak to the current...
Track and field competes in California
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Western Oregon track and field traveled to Southern California, where the team continued to find success in the face of Division I and II competition. Most Wolves competed in the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, where junior David...
The next big step
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor Mock drafts are often made into mockeries on draft day, which is now quickly approaching. The NFL draft begins on April 27, and college players from across the nation will look to make impacts on professional teams. Since 2000, the only...
Wolves go big on the road
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The baseball team went 6-1 on the week, facing Saint Martin’s and then taking a long road trip to play Montana State Billings. Western Oregon met the Saint Martin’s Saints on neutral ground in Newberg after the Monmouth home opener was...
Home weekend goes away
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor In what was slated to be the home opener, the weather chased Wolves softball away to Nampa for four games against Northwest Nazarene. The Wolves and Crusaders split the series, with two wins apiece. Sophomore Haley Fabian pitched the...
John Knight Twilight hosted at Western
By: Burke De Boer Sports Editor The windstorm that swept through Oregon April 7 and 8 left a lot of trouble in its wake, but nothing Wolves track and field couldn’t handle, and sophomore Olivia Woods was named the Women’s Track GNAC player of the week. The men’s team...









