The Butler men’s soccer team heads into league play Friday ranked No. 17 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll. The Bulldogs moved up four spots in the poll after Saturday night, when sophomore forward Julian Cardona broke a 0-0 deadlock between the Grizzles (1-5) and the Bulldogs (5-0) by scoring just 12…
XC continues impressive runs at Intercollegiates
Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams have gotten off to promising starts this season, and neither team has even used their entire squad yet. On Sept. 17, at Purdue’s annual Indiana Intercollegiate Meet, the Butler men grabbed a fourth-place finish, while the Butler women finished second in a 20-team field. Leading the charge…
Women’s soccer clinches win in OT
The Butler women’s soccer team heads west this weekend after a week of competition at home. They will be looking to extend their two-game winning streak that began against Miami (Ohio) earlier this month and continued last Friday against the St. Louis Billikens. Butler (2-4) captured their second consecutive victory in an overtime win versus…
Soccer takes title with high scoring
Heading into Horizon League play a good showing in Kentucky was key. Goal-scoring came naturally to the Butler men’s soccer team last weekend when they went 2-0 to win Kentucky’s Wildcat Invitational in Lexington, Ky. The three-day event placed the Bulldogs (4-0) against the Houston Baptist Huskies and the Loyola Marymount Lions. Butler was able…
Football slips at Youngstown
After a tough road loss at Youngstown State bringing the team to 1-1, Butler looks forward to matching up against Taylor University in their first home game this Saturday, September 18th. Playing under the lights in front of a crowd of 18,025, the Bulldog football team lost to Youngstown State 31-7 Saturday. The Penguins offered…
Golf slow to start in the South
The Butler women’s golf team finished fifth at the Chris Bannister Golf Classic over the holiday weekend in Glencoe, Ala. The three-day event, which began Sunday, was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Silver Lakes. The Bulldogs got off to a slow start Sunday, but Mattingly said his team seemed to play…
Girls rule, boys drool: Katie Griswold named Horizon League Athlete of the Week
Last week, sophomore forward Katie Griswold garnered an award that isn’t often won by Butler women’s soccer players. On the heels of a 5-2 win over Miami (Ohio) in which Griswold scored the first hat trick of her career, she received honors as the Horizon League soccer player of the week. All three goals were…
Women’s tennis creates team dynamic in Greencastle, Ind.
Women’s tennis captured seven of eight singles flights and three of four doubles flights at DePauw’s Tiger Fall Invitational last weekend in Greencastle, Ind. Butler head coach Jason Suscha said he felt the Bulldog freshmen made his team the deepest and most talented at the invitational. Suscha said he was focused primarily on what his…
Volleyball has strong Invitational showing
The Butler women’s volleyball team will begin Horizon League play this week after hosting a four-team inviational last weekend. The pre-conference invitational was Butler’s first in four years. The team finished second in their tournament after two 3-0 wins over UNC-Wilmington and Army and a 3-2 loss to tournament champion Xavier. “It was great after…
Soccer wins duel against Musketeers
The Butler men’s soccer team still has zeros in two key statistical categories: goals against and losses. Most recently, the Bulldogs maintained these Sept. 4 at Xavier, where a goal by senior midfielder Kyle Pateros and a shutout by senior goalkeeper Fabian Knopfler led the charge. Pateros found some space in front of the goal…