With a volleyball in her hands and her sister's door in front of her, Erica Gerth was molded into a fearsome volleyball player.

Eastern softball will have a new assistant coach to help develop the nine newcomers to its roster in the 2004 season.

Instead of bringing in a new face for its vacant baseball assistant coach position, Eastern decided to promote a graduate assistant and former player.

The Eastern volleyball team will look to continue its winning ways as it travels to Indianapolis to take on Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Tuesday night.

For Ohio Valley Conference teams, the real season has just begun.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Eastern lost its fourth consecutive game to a winless Southeast Missouri squad in a contest between conference foes looking for confidence.

The Eastern volleyball team rolled over Tennessee State Saturday in four games (30-15, 30-26, 28-30, 30-19), winning its third consecutive conference match.

It was a difference of two halves for the Eastern women's soccer team Sunday against Tennessee Tech at Lakeside Field.

In his pregame speech to the team, Panthers' head coach Frank Graziano said "the Penn State game would be a struggle and well fought." He was right.

Eastern's cross country teams didn't come out on top this weekend, but, considering each teams' conditions, they pulled off some stunning performances.

Not since Oct. 18 of last year have the Panthers participated in a scoreless tie, but after 110 minutes at Lakeside Field on Sunday nothing was settled between Eastern and Vanderbilt.

To put it bluntly, Eastern was far too happy after its 30-17 loss to SEMO Saturday.