Sports

  • Tennis: Women Wrap Up Regular Season, Men Seek First Conferene Win

    MITCH RIPORTELLA | Staff Reporter The Butler women’s tennis team wrapped up its final regular season matches at home over the weekend, taking on Saint Louis University Friday and IUPUI on Saturday. The Bulldogs fell flat in their first contest Friday, suffering a 0-4 loss at the hands of the Billikens. Saint Louis dominated both…

  • Student-athletes Band Together for a Good Cause

    MARKO TOMICH | Contributing Reporter With renovations in Hinkle Fieldhouse going on, the Student Athlete Advisor Committee was unable to set up their second inaugural formal. The SAAC’s original idea for the all-athletic formal was to bring together Butler’s athletes and to celebrate its success as well as deliver awards given out at the event.…

  • Track & Field Schedule Altered

    JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter The Butler track and field team will be split up this weekend. Some members of the Butler track and field team will head to Walnut, Calif., this weekend for the Mt. Sac Relays. The rest of the team will stay in Indy after the meet they were scheduled to compete…

  • Andrew Eiler – From Walk-On to Winner

    BRENDAN KING | Staff Reporter After waking up to sounds of shouting and horns at Culver Military Academy for four years, Butler golfer Andrew Eiler is ready for early morning tee times. Eiler is a junior on the men’s golf team. When he joined the team as a freshman, he was just a walk-on player.…

  • Baseball – Bulldogs Look Ahead to Musketeers

    JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter The Butler baseball team will play a three-game series against Xavier starting Thursday. The series will be the Bulldogs’ third against a Big East opponent after winning the series against Seton Hall two weeks ago and being swept by St. John’s last weekend. Butler now stands 14-21 after an extra-inning…

  • Four players transferring from women’s basketball program

    Four women’s basketball players are transferring from the program. Redshirt sophomore Haley Howard, freshman Ashton Feldhaus, junior Taylor Schippers and junior Liz Stratman will be leaving the university, according to a statement from Butler University athletic department. Howard has been in the program for three years and has played for two, after suffering an injury…

  • Basketball Transfers Continue

    BEN SIECK | Sports Editor The Butler men’s basketball team is adding a transferring student-athlete for a change. Former North Carolina State point guard Tyler Lewis made the decision to  transfer to Butler last Friday. Lewis is a sophomore who will be forced to sit out for one year based on the NCAA transfer rules.…

  • Bulldogs Compete from East to West

    JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter The Butler track and field team is coming off two successful meets over the weekend. A small part of the team went to California and competed in the Stanford Invitational, while the rest of the team competed at Miami of Ohio University. Seniors Kirsty Legg and Tom Anderson, juniors Tom…

  • Fans Will See Modern Hinkle Fieldhouse

    RHYAN HENSON | Multimedia Editor The Butler community will experience a different Hinkle Fieldhouse starting this fall. One of the new amenities for the fans will be a scoreboard that is twice as large as the current one. The scoreboard will also have video capabilities. Associate Athletic Director Ken LaRose said the athletics department would…