From a game-winning layup to seal a win for women's basketball to both men's and women's tennis recording their first wins of the season, here is what happened within Eastern's athletics this past...
Freshman tennis player Ludolph Wiggett started playing tennis around the age of 5.
The Melbourne, Australia, native attended Trinity Grammar School before committing to Eastern.
Wiggett competed...
The first Panther of the Week is going to William Hays from the tennis team.
The sophomore from Evansville, Indiana, won his doubles and singles matches against the University of Southern Indiana Screaming...
Luther Yoder, Assistant Sports Editor
• March 30, 2024
Eastern men’s tennis was able to win their second straight match as they beat the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 5-2.
The Panthers won the doubles point with No. 1 and No. 3 doubles...
Senior Gertjan De Wilder came to America from his hometown of Machelen, Belgium, not knowing any English and his goal was to change that.
That indeed happened when De Wilder started playing junior...
The month of February was not all too kind for the Eastern men’s tennis team and for the start of March, it has not started out promising either.
The Panthers have two matches this weekend, facing...
A promising start to the season has been quickly erased for the Eastern men’s tennis team over the last couple weeks, and it could be the right time for them to bounce back.
The Panthers have lost five...
Senior Freddie O’Brien has been a staple for the Eastern men’s tennis team in recent years and that earned him OVC Player of The Week for his efforts against Northern Kentucky and Northern Illinois.
O'Brien...
A three-match losing streak is never fun, but the Eastern men’s tennis team is not worrying.
The team had a similar stretch where it lost four matches in a row last season, but the Panthers bounced...
A 5-0 start to the season is now a distance memory for the Eastern men’s tennis team.
Eastern did not have multiple matches like the last couple weekends, having just one match against Oral Roberts...
The season is still young, but it can be said that the Eastern men’s tennis team has come back to reality.
Eastern started the year 5-0, its best start since 1983. The Panthers have lost 3 of...
After a week off, the Eastern men’s tennis team concluded its fall season schedule, and the extra time paid dividends.
The Panthers competed in two matches, splitting up the team at the Chattanooga...
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![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior tennis player Luisa Renovales Salazar hits the tennis ball with her racket at the Darling Courts at the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston, ILL.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tennis_01_O-1-e1741807434552-1200x670.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Conklin pitching in the Eastern Illinois University baseball team's intrasquad scrimmage at O'Brien Field in Charleston, Illinois on Jan. 31.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TC_01_O-e1741567955534-1200x669.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior, forward Macy McGlone finds an open teammate to pass the ball too during the game against the Tennessee State Tigers 69-49, in Groniger Arena on the Eastern Illinois University campus, Charleston Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WBB_02_O-1-e1741228987440-1200x692.jpg)
![E[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois softball freshman utility player Abbi Hatton deciding to throw the softball to home plate in a fielding drill during softball practice at the field house in Groniger arena on Tuesday Feb. 11.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SB_03_O-e1741208880750-1-e1741209739187-1200x815.jpg)
![The Weeklings lead guitarist John Merjave [Left] and guitarist Bob Burger [Right] perform "I Am the Walrus" at The Weeklings Beatles Bash concert in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Saturday.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WL_01_O-1200x900.jpg)
![The team listens as its captain Patience Cox [Number 25] lectures to them about what's appropriate to talk about through practice during "The Wolves" on Thursday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Doudna Fine Arts Center in Charleston, Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WolvesPre-12-1200x800.jpg)
