The Eastern Illinois softball team won its first ever Ohio Valley Conference softball championship Saturday afternoon at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala.
The Panthers defeated the SIUE Cougars in a...
Kate Stevens, Assistant Sports Editor
• March 27, 2023
The Eastern softball team will stay atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings after sweeping SIUE 1-0 and 5-2 in a doubleheader at its home opener Sunday afternoon at Williams Field.
The team moved...
Kate Stevens, Assistant Sports Editor
• February 11, 2023
Eastern’s women’s basketball team suffered its first conference loss of the season as SIUE defeated the Panthers 82-77 in Edwardsville Saturday afternoon.
The Panthers’ 17 turnovers were a major...
The use of bench players is the Eastern volleyball team’s biggest weapon going into conference play tomorrow evening against SIUE.
According to coach Sara Thomas, being able to utilize each player...
The OVC softball regular season is in its final 10 days. Five weekend conference series are set to be played this weekend, with teams looking to solidifying their seeding for the postseason.
First-place...
It took 11 innings, but the Eastern softball team snapped a nine-game losing streak against SIUE at home Wednesday. The 6-5 extra-inning win snapped the streak in the first game of a doubleheader against...
With three weekend series and a few midweek doubleheaders remaining for each team, the OVC softball season is coming down to the wire.
Murray State is still holding on to the top spot in the standings...
The Eastern softball team dropped a series for the first time in conference play, losing two of three games to Tennessee State after opening conference play with a sweep of Morehead State.
The Panthers...
Every OVC softball team is either winless or undefeated in conference play, as the first weekend of conference play wrapped up with sweeps up and down the standings.
Murray State, Tennessee-Martin, Belmont,...
Autumn Schulz, Assistant Sports Editor
• March 10, 2022
OVC baseball has entered Week 4 of Play with some of the top three teams in the conference already living up to their preseason picks.
Tennessee Tech was picked to finish eighth out of the nine...
Ryan Meyer, Men's Basketball Reporter
• February 21, 2022
The Eastern men’s basketball team lost their fourth game in a row, falling to Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 66-52 in a game in which the deficit grew to as much as 29.
With the loss, the Panthers...
Nearly every women’s basketball team in the OVC has surpassed the halfway point of the conference season.
The top seven teams seemed more or less poised to head to Evansville next month for the OVC...
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