month : 01/2019 27 results

Yellow Jackets Suffer Setback to No. 14 Findlay

by Tim Miller The Cedarville Yellow Jackets surrendered their first half lead to the No. 14 Findlay Oilers and never got it back, losing 81-68 on Thursday night. The Yellow Jackets' loss is a huge blow to their hopes of hosting the conference tournament, as they fall two games out of first place. Just six players scored for the Yellow Jackets (12-9, 9-4 G-MAC) in the loss. Cedarville was out-rebounded by three and lost the turnover margin by six. Sophomore Conner TenHove led the Yellow ...

Comeback Falls Short As Cedarville Cedes First Place

by Tim Miller A putrid first quarter led the Cedarville Lady Jackets to an insurmountable deficit on Thursday night, as Cedarville lost to Findlay 73-64. The loss is a huge blow, dropping Cedarville (16-4, 12-2 G-MAC) out of first place in the G-MAC and snapping its six-game winning streak. Senior guard Baylee Bennett was a huge part of the Lady Jackets' comeback, scoring 17 points on 5-11 shooting from deep. Senior guard Regina Hochstetler scored 16 points on 4-10 shooting from behind the ...

Preview: Cedarville Takes On G-MAC Leader Findlay

by Tim Miller After upsetting No. 9 ranked Findlay on Dec. 1, the Cedarville Yellow Jackets have an opportunity to sweep the Oilers this Thursday. Head coach Pat Estepp said Findlay hasn't implemented many changes in its scheme since their first meeting, so the challenge on Thursday will be beating a team for a second time that rarely loses twice to the same team in a season. Now the No. 14 team in the nation, Findlay is an impressive 16-3 and is tied for first in the ...

Preview: Lady Jackets Look to Sweep Findlay to Keep First Place

by Tim Miller The G-MAC leading Cedarville Lady Jackets have a date with the Findlay Oilers on Thursday, the second and final of the season. Cedarville outlasted Findlay 74-70 on Dec. 1. "We took care of the ball well and found the open player," head coach Kari Hoffman said of Cedarville's first win over Findlay.  "We made them uncomfortable offensively by switching up defenses and our press did good things for us." The Lady Jackets (16-3, 12-1 G-MAC) enter the game on a roll, with six ...

Play Preview: “Appointment with Death”

by Katie Milligan The Cedarville Theater Department will present their winter production, the Agatha Christie murder mystery-drama “Appointment with Death,” for the first time on Jan. 31, 2019. The play is based on a Christie mystery novel written in 1938. Christie herself later adapted the storyline into a play in 1945. Set in the 1940s, the play features a large cast of over 20 characters brought together in Jerusalem by fate. This assorted group includes: the English Dr. Sara ...

Opioid Crisis – National Town Hall coming to Cedarville University

By Benjamin Smid At 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30th, Cedarville University’s Dixon Ministry Center will be the venue for a national town hall on the opioid crisis. The opioid crisis is claiming hundreds of lives each day in the United States.  Over the past decade, opioid overdose deaths have skyrocketed due to increased availability of the drugs and unnecessary prescriptions.  In 2017, opioid overdoses killed almost 50,000 people, a nearly 100% increase in four years according to ...

‘Good Fences Make Good Neighbors’

A rhetorical analysis of Trump’s border wall by Alexandria Hentschel The seats of the Capitol Building were collecting dust. Government workers had stopped receiving paychecks. As of Jan. 12, the partial government shutdown had broken the record for the longest lapse in funding. The reason? An impasse over where lawmakers will find the funding in the budget for President Trump’s border wall. It turns out Mexico isn’t ringing the doorbell at 1 Pennsylvania Avenue to hand over a giant ...