Butler men’s tennis did not fare well in its last match of the fall season at the Louisville Winter Invitational last weekend. Junior Chris Herron dropped his first-round singles match on Friday to Louisville’s Arren Carter, 7-5, 6-1, while the team of senior David Dolins and freshman Brad DiCarlo fell 8-0 to Louisville junior Adam…
Bulldogs hold on to first with road victory
With four different Bulldogs tallying double digit kills, Butler’s team effort was just enough to beat Wright State in five sets on the road last Friday. The Bulldogs’ (15-7, 10-1 HL) victory ran their winning streak up to six games. After a shaky start to the season, Butler is 11-1 in its last 12 matches.…
Butler to host women’s Horizon tourney
Butler head women’s soccer coach Tari St. John said she and her staff knew all along that there was something special about this year’s squad. The Bulldogs (8-10, 6-2 HL) proved their coaches right when they clinched the Horizon League regular season championship on Sunday. The Butler women’s soccer team will host the Horizon League…
Bulldogs top Ramblers, remain unbeaten
The Butler men’s soccer team will look to stay undefeated when it travels to Bloomington, Ind., to face Indiana tonight. Head coach Kelly Findley said he is ready to face the challenge the Hoosiers (8-4-2) pose. “We’re playing very well,” Findley said. “We’re not planning on doing anything different than we’ve already done; just going…
Football allows field goal in closing seconds, loses homecoming contest
It seemed the Butler football team had their homecoming tilt against Morehead State wrapped up with less than a minute remaining in the game. Instead, the Bulldogs (3-5, 1-4 PFL) will spend the next few days before Oct. 30’s conference game against Valparaiso wondering how they managed to drop another Pioneer Football League contest. Butler…
Big hits not worthy of big punishments
The intense reaction of the National Football League office to “big hits” is an overreaction. A recent increase in the number of head-to-head hits and other injury-causing tackles has led the NFL office to adjust the new standard for these hits: a personal foul penalty, game ejection, heavy fine and short suspension. I often support…
Lester makes transition from basketball to volleyball
Susan Lester walked off the basketball court at the end of Butler’s first-round loss in last year’s Women’s National Invitation Tournament as one of the most accomplished players in Bulldog history. She had just been named the 2010 Horizon League Sixth Player of the Year and was named to the 2010 Horizon League All-Tournament Team.…
Pitching still matters in the playoffs
If any readers out there ever own a Major League Baseball team and want to make the playoffs, build your team around great pitching. Don’t get reeled in by some guy who can hit the long ball. Be boring. Get some great pitchers. Sure, I have grown up watching steroids era baseball and have seen…
PK keeps soccer undefeated
The Butler men’s soccer team protected its flawless record Saturday when senior captain Ben Sippola netted a penalty kick in overtime versus UIC. The dramatic ending gave the Bulldogs (10-0, 4-0 HL) a 2-1 win over the Flames (3-7, 1-3 HL), now down to eighth in the league. The dramatic ending was a fitting one…
Women’s soccer hands Panthers rare home loss
The Butler women’s soccer team accomplished something on Sunday that no Horizon League team has been able to in nearly 12 years: beat the Milwaukee Panthers on their own turf. The Bulldogs (5-9, 3-1 HL) snapped Milwaukee’s 37-game unbeaten home streak against league opponents and handed the Panthers (8-4-2, 3-1 HL) their first conference loss…