Sports

Spring season over, quarterback competition in full swing

BY BRENDAN KING | STAFF REPORTER | baking@butler.edu Fall football is right around the corner for the Butler University football team after it competed in the annual spring game last week. Although the spring season is ending, the level of competition for the players has not. There are still many competitions for starting jobs on…
OVERTIME: Shiltz should get the nod at starting QB

COLUMN BY BRENDAN KING | STAFF REPORTER | baking@butler.edu Perhaps one of the most entertaining competitions in sports is the position battle for starting quarterback on a football team. Sports fans have seen great quarterback battles in the past few years, such as in the San Francisco 49ers between Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick, and…
OVERTIME: NBA playoffs at a glance

BY WESLEY BRYANT | STAFF REPORTER | wdbryant@butler.edu The NBA regular season came to an end last night and all the playoff matchups have been set. 16 teams will begin their journey for the Larry O’ Brien trophy starting tomorrow, April 18. The hometown Indiana Pacers dropped out of the eighth and final playoff spot in…
Softball pushes win streak to three

BY GRAYSON PRATHER | STAFF REPORTER | gprather@butler.edu The Butler Softball team extended its win streak today, defeating Eastern Illinois University 8-5 at home. The Panthers scored early with an RBI single from Bailey O’Dell, scoring April Markowski in the top of the 1st. The Bulldogs responded quickly, though, with a grand slam from Freshman…
Women’s golf team tees of at Big East Championships

BY AUSTIN MILLER | ASST. SPORTS EDITOR | armille3@butler.edu Tomorrow, Butler University’s women’s golf team will begin competition in the 2015 Big East Championship at LPGA International Golf Course in Daytona, Florida. The Bulldogs will look for a ticket to their first NCAA Regional since joining the Big East after winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic…
Managers: the men behind the Bulldogs

ERIC ROBINSON | STAFF REPORTER | ecrobins@butler.edu The Butler men’s basketball team surprised many when it played its way into the NCAA Tournament this season. Names such as Barlow and Dunham became commonplace in the heads and the hearts of all Butler fans. But they were not the only ones who worked hard to get…
Softball team opens homestand today

BY GRAYSON PRATHER | STAFF REPORTER | gprather@butler.com The Butler University softball team hosts Eastern Illinois University today at 4 p.m. in search of its third straight win. The Bulldogs (17-22) beat Ball State University last night in Muncie 6-4 in 11 innings. Junior Kristin Gutierrez earned her ninth win for the Bulldogs, throwing the…
QB competition taking center stage at spring game

BY BRENDAN KING | STAFF REPORTER | baking@butler.edu When you think of college football, you think of the fall and temperatures dropping. But for the Butler University football team, they are hard at work this spring preparing for the blue versus white spring game this Saturday. In this game, the team will split into two and…
Haviland, women’s tennis team gearing up for final stretch of season

The Butler University women’s tennis team has a big weekend ahead with its final two matches of the regular season at home against Creighton University Friday and Xavier University Sunday. The Bulldogs split a pair of conference games last weekend with a 5-2 win over Providence College Sunday and a 6-1 loss against DePaul University…