Column: Breaking tough defenses a must for Eastern
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
January 28, 2019
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
Shooting well from the outside has been the men’s basketball team’s bread and butter this season. Three of Eastern’s players are on OVC leaderboards for two different three-point shooting categories, Ben Harvey, Kashawn Charles and Mack Smith, and Smith has Eastern’s record by making a three-point...
Notebook: Murray State, Belmont clash in important OVC week
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
January 22, 2019
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
The Eastern men’s basketball team earned an important victory over Austin Peay Saturday, showing that not only can the Panthers play with the tougher OVC teams, but that they are deserving of sitting in the top half of the conference. The OVC is split so far in two perfectly even halves. Six...
Column: Three takeaways from Eastern’s win over Austin Peay
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
January 21, 2019
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
The Eastern men’s basketball team is now 4-2 in conference play and 11-8 overall, after losing to Murray State Thursday and defeating Austin Peay Saturday. Hosting those two teams back-to-back on one day’s rest was going to be one of the toughest challenges the team will face this season. ...
Column: Threes are fine, but inside scoring is necessary for victory
January 15, 2019
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
The most telling statistic for the Eastern men’s basketball team is its three-point shooting. Points from beyond the mark have been the Panthers’ best friend at times, and its worst friend at times. Whichever case it is, the three-point shot will be the narrator in the team’s story of this...
Column: Eastern women’s basketball team far from out of race after bad week
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
January 14, 2019
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
Last week Wednesday I wrote a column illustrating how the Eastern women’s basketball team was no longer a rebuilding program and had finally arrived to be big players in the conference tournament. It has been six days, and that article, admittedly, already has not aged well. The Panthers were 7-6 (1-1 in OVC) and winners...
Column: Women’s basketball team no longer rebuilding program, they’re here for real
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
January 9, 2019
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
Not very many coaches in the Ohio Valley Conference had the Eastern women’s basketball team pegged as a conference tournament team prior to the season, slotting them in 11th place of 12 teams in the preseason poll, leaving them on the outside looking in at the conference tournament. Except, of course, for Eastern’s head coach Matt...
Column: Fontbonne exposed to exhilaration of D-I hoops
Tom O'Connor, Columnist
December 5, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
If there was one game that Fontbonne circled, underlined and highlighted on its schedule, it had to have been the one they played at Lantz Arena this past Tuesday. The matchup was more or less a litmus test for the 3-3 Griffins, one of 10 teams in the Division III St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic C...
Column: Zone defense could be helpful for Panthers
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
December 5, 2018
Eastern’s men’s basketball team has almost exclusively run man-to-man defense so far this season, and head coach Jay Spoonhour, along with some players, have identified two key problems defensively. Ever since Eastern’s scrimmage against the University of Missouri-St. Louis, before the preseason game ...
Column: Close road losses good sign for Panthers’ future
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
December 3, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
As the Eastern women’s basketball team’s comeback bid against Valparaiso fell short on Sunday night, the team’s road losing streak became longer. After dropping back-to-back road games to Valparaiso (62-60) and Bradley (67-64), the Panthers are now the owners of 17 straight road losses. But head co...
Column: Dameron’s removal puts period on ugly season
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 26, 2018
Filed under Columns, Football, Sports
With the nonrenewal of former Eastern head football coach Kim Dameron’s contract, the Eastern football team’s season was punctuated with a move that only felt fitting giving the bleakness of the team’s season as a whole.  It began with a four-game losing streak, one that saw the Panthers s...
Column: Eastern men’s basketball team will defeat Austin Peay if they meet again
Tom O'Connor, Basketball Reporter
November 14, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Columns, Sports
With 19.8 seconds left and Eastern ahead 40-26 in the quarter finals of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, Governors star Dayton Gumm, who was then a freshman, barreled into the lane, showed the pump fake and turned his body toward the left corner. But Gumm did not communicate with senior Treâ€...
Column: Men’s soccer team needs scoring down stretch
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
October 17, 2018
Filed under Columns, Soccer, Sports
Since the beginning of the men’s soccer season, the thing I have wanted to see from the Panthers is a productive offense. I wanted to see the Panthers be able to score on a consistent basis, and multiple times in a match on multiple occasions.           At the beginning of ...
