Gabe Newman, Assistant Sports Editor
• February 11, 2025
Josh Oakley has left Eastern’s men’s soccer program after two years as head coach, athletic director Tom Michael said.
Oakley said he felt frustrated with a lack of funding and support...
Eastern Illinois University lost to the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons 3-0 at Lakeside Field Thursday.
The game was scoreless for over 70 minutes until the Mastodons took advantage of a mistake by...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 13, 2023
Eastern men’s soccer showed an improvement in Head Coach Josh Oakley’s second season with the team.
They improved from 1-12-3 to 4-10-5, which is their best since 2019, and their conference...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 8, 2023
Eastern men’s soccer season ends with a 1-0 loss to the Incarnate Word Cardinals.
The Cardinals’ lone goal came from sophomore forward Sello Diphoko off of an assist from junior defender Will...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 7, 2023
Eastern men's soccer will be playing in the second round of a conference tournament for the first time since 2007.
“Preseason polls, everyone’s saying, ‘Oh we’re not supposed to be here,...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 5, 2023
Eastern men’s soccer won a game in a conference tournament for the first time since 2007 where it beat Drake University in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.
The Panthers won 3-1 on penalties...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 1, 2023
The Eastern men’s soccer team will be playing in a conference tournament for the first time since 2018 when it was in the Summit League.
“Our biggest objective of the year was to play in November,”...
The first Panther of the Week is going to Maxwell Allen from the men’s soccer team.
The fifth-year defender from Indianapolis scored the lone goal to give the Panthers a win over the Southern Indiana...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• October 26, 2023
The Panthers pulled off another last-minute win to beat the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 1-0.
Eastern's goal came going into the 87th minute when senior forward Sam Eccles took the ball to...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• October 25, 2023
The Panthers are in the middle of a close race to make the Ohio Valley Conference championship tournament.
Eastern is sixth out of eight in the OVC with eight points but is tied with Chicago State....
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• October 15, 2023
The Panthers posted a shutout for the first time since their first game on August 28 against Governors State where they won 1-0, except this time they tied 0-0 against the Chicago State University...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• October 12, 2023
The Panthers allowed four goals in their third straight game in a 4-0 loss to the Liberty University Flames.
“We’re still stuck in Texas,” Head Coach Josh Oakley said. “Allow[ing] a goal...
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