Sports

  • Baseball: Byerly breaks records with different style

    Switching positions in sports is not always the easiest thing to do. An individual switching the way he or she plays a sport is even more difficult. Butler junior pitcher Chase Byerly has done the latter for the baseball team this season by changing his throwing motion. During Byerly’s freshman season, Butler coach Steve Farley…

  • Professional racing: Butler grad Carpenter earns spot in IndyCar

    While it is difficult to know what each Butler graduate is doing with his or her life at this moment, it is unlikely that many are pursuing a career like that of 2003 graduate Ed Carpenter. As some car racing fans likely know, Carpenter competes in the IndyCar Series. In the series, 31-year-old Carpenter has…

  • Looking ahead: Teams face additions, subtractions

    As the spring sports season begins to wind down, many teams are already beginning to prepare for their next season. The football team had its annual blue and white scrimmage, the men’s soccer team had its spring exhibition matches, and five teams have announced additions to their rosters for next year. Let’s take a look…

  • Transfers: Student-athletes see struggles, benefits

    Transferring from one school to another midway through college can be exasperating. Add to the process the complications of being a full-time student-athlete, and individuals have an entirely new challenge on their hands. Butler student-athletes who have transferred from other schools can attest to this. Junior baseball first baseman Jimmy Risi referred to his transfer…

  • Track and field: Hudec, Cathey lead team at meets

    The Butler track and field team competed in two meets in two different states last weekend and recorded two new school records and multiple strong finishes. Two Butler records fell at Indiana University’s Polytan Invitational. Freshman Nicole Hudec broke her own school record in the triple jump again with a leap of 35-10—good for fifth…

  • Baseball: Team loses three close games

    The Butler baseball team put together one of its best strings of pitching so far this season. But Valparaiso threw even better and came away with a three-game series sweep over the weekend. On Sunday, the Bulldogs (19-21, 7-11) saw the Crusaders (18-20, 12-6) tally two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to…

  • Men’s golf: Wegeng leads team to 10th-place finish

    The men’s golf team placed 10th of 15 teams at the Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational Sunday. The event was hosted by Ball State. The Bulldogs finished with a three-round total of 1144 in the two-day tournament and were led by junior Andrew Wegeng, who shot a 5-over-par total of 215, good enough for sixth place individually.…

  • Tennis: Teams see different results

    The Butler women’s tennis team finished its regular season by beating Youngstown State 4-3 Sunday. The Bulldogs (8-14, 5-3) were led by senior Cam Thompson at No. 4 singles. Thompson defeated sophomore Gimena Puppo 6-1, 6-3 to get Butler rolling against the Penguins (1-17, 1-7). Bulldogs’ sophomores Angelina Qin and Laura Shull won their No.…

  • Intramural softball: ‘Love of competition’ drives players

    The intramural fields buzzed this weekend as the annual intramural softball tournaments began Sunday.