Sports

By GUY PERRIN Freelancer The women’s basketball team hosted the Alaskan schools this past weekend and came up just short in both games. The Wolves encountered the No. 7 ranked team in the country, Alaska Anchorage University, Thursday, Jan. 8, without forward Dana...

Kappa Sigma hosted the first annual 1st Responders Charity Basketball game Thursday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. in the New PE building. Polk County Fire District played against the Monmouth and Independence Police Departments. The event was held to raise money for local...

BY RACHEL SHELLEY SPORTS EDITOR The women’s basketball team stayed busy this winter break playing six games since Dec. 4, 2014, including three conference match-ups and sweeping the competition during the Las Vegas Challenge on Dec. 17-18. The Wolves finished up 3-3...

  The Western Oregon University men’s basketball team brought in the New Year with a bang as they concluded a nine-game winning streak. Scoring more than 100 points in their last two games and breaking a single game 3-point record (20), the Wolves were looking...

ESPN lost a legend on Sunday, Jan. 4. Stuart Scott was 49 years old and was diagnosed with cancer in 2007. He was the catalysis to the new century of the way sports was broadcasted, and one of the most memorable and inspiring faces on television. Scott was not only an...

I am an avid connoisseur of sports. College, professional, intermural, I even catch myself stopping on the World Series of Poker when it’s on TV; I have always just been attracted to competition in any form. That being said, being a life-long fan and athlete myself, I...

Rachel Shelley Sports Editor The men’s basketball team is currently on a four-game win streak, beating their most recent opponent, Academy of Art University (AAU) in San Francisco, Calif. 83-73 on Nov. 29. The match-up between the Urban Knights concluded a three-game...

Jacob Hansen Staff Writer The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Billings, Mont. Saturday, Nov. 29, to close out their season. It was the NCAA West Regional’s held at Amend Park, where the Wolves women’s team finished 16th overall and the men’s 19th....

Jacob Hansen Freelancer Western’s football team hit the road for one final trip last Saturday where they were greeted with below zero temperatures in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Wolves defeated the South Dakota Mines in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC)...

By Rachel Shelley Sports Editor Wolves’ volleyball finished off their season with two home games, a 3-0 victory over Seattle Pacific on Nov. 13 and a 0-3 loss against Montana State Billings on Nov. 15. The Wolves finished their sweep against the Falcons with 41 kills....