Eastern faces tough SEMO team Thursday on road
JJ Bullock, Editor-In-Chief
February 26, 2020
The ticket to the OVC tournament has been punched for the Eastern women’s basketball team. The question remaining now for the team, however, is where will they be sitting, or seeded rather, when the tournament rolls around. The Panthers (11-5 OVC) are in control of their own seeding destiny with two...
Men’s basketball team can clinch tournament spot with win Thursday, travel to face SEMO
Blake Faith, Men's Basketball Reporter
February 26, 2020
The Eastern’s men’s basketball team’s journey to the OVC tournament has completely flipped from a week ago. After two underdog wins, the Panthers can clinch an OVC tournament spot as early as Thursday night if they defeat the Southeast Missouri Redhawks. Eastern is in sixth place in the OVC ...
Women’s soccer ties, loses in conference openers
Tom O'Connor, Women's Soccer Reporter
September 22, 2019
Removed from the diversions of exhibition matches and non-conference opponents, the Panthers have not always been particularly equipped at handling Tennessee-Martin, Southeast Missouri or any other Ohio Valley Conference team on the opening weekend of conference play. Each year Eastern plays its f...
Eastern loses third game in a row
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
January 27, 2019
The Eastern women’s basketball team shot just 39 percent from the field in a 72-57 loss to Southeast Missouri where the team’s leading scorer Karle Pace just could not get baskets to fall. In what was a battle between two of the better scoring sophomore guards in the Ohio Valley Conference in ...
Men’s basketball team falls to Redhawks on road
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
January 27, 2019
After the men’s basketball team’s 66-64 victory over Tennessee-Martin Thursday, head coach Jay Spoonhour told Mike Bradd and Jack Ashmore, Eastern’s sports commentators, that he did not think Eastern was much better than the OVC’s bottom teams. Spoonhour said that even though Eastern was among the top fiv...
Softball set for SEMO Invite
Sean Hastings, Spots Editor
March 9, 2017
Five out of the 10 wins the Eastern softball team has picked up this season have been by 10 runs or more. Despite two shutout losses to Lipscomb last weekend, Eastern has had little problems at the plate this season. Eastern has three of its starters hitting over .400 and one hitting .393. Freshman...
