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 ...
Column: Time for Eastern football team to step up is now
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
September 26, 2018
Filed under Columns, Football, Sports
I received an email this week from an Eastern football fan voicing his displeasure with the team’s performance following Eastern’s 41-40 loss to Tennessee State, in which they coughed up a 21-point lead and gave up 544 yards on defense. If there is one thing that email tells me, it is that the frustration...
Column: Eastern football team too talented to play as they did on Saturday
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
September 10, 2018
Filed under Columns, Football, Sports
To give the Eastern football team’s 48-10 loss to Illinois State the perfect summation, only one word is required: ugly. No matter how you dice the game up for Eastern, offensively, defensively, special teams, the game was downright heinous to watch. Last season the team was beat by Illinois State...
Column: Men’s soccer team needs more avenues to score
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
September 6, 2018
Filed under Columns, Soccer, Sports
Even though the Eastern men’s soccer team has already made good on some things it wanted to do well this year, the team could still improve on scoring through its build-up play. Defensively, head coach Kiki Lara has constantly stressed the need for defensive grit and all-around good play. On the...
Opponents confused by volleyball team’s offensive approach
Tom O'Connor, Volleyball Reporter
August 29, 2018
Filed under Columns, Sports, Volleyball
Approaching the action from the front row, redshirt freshman Kylie Michael leaned in toward the net, feet positioned parallel with Iona setter Emma Rose, who stood a mere two feet away. The force of her hands, swinging back and then swinging forward again, set up a chance for her to truly pulverize...
All-around depth will help men’s soccer team’s offense
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
August 29, 2018
Filed under Columns, Soccer, Sports
One big question facing Eastern’s men’s soccer team before the season was the team’s ability to score. Last year, the team scored ten goals for the entire season, had a seven-match scoreless streak and its leading scorer had only three goals. So this year, head coach Kiki Lara was looking...
Football team knows what to expect against Arkansas
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
August 29, 2018
Filed under Columns, Football, Sports
The players and coaches of the Eastern football team are not being naïve or vanilla about the team’s upcoming game against Arkansas. Everyone in the program knows what they are walking into on Saturday; a game against an SEC school, in an SEC atmosphere with NFL-level talent all over the field. ...
