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Cedarville leads the G-MAC after gritty win against Malone

By Emily Tuttle The Cedarville Yellow Jackets (14-5) defeated Malone University (9-10) 68-59 on Wednesday night. They improved to 8-1 in conference play and hold the top spot in the G-MAC. The Jackets struggled offensively all night. They couldn’t seem to buy a shot in a win where their defense came up large. They shot only 38.2% from the field despite creating some great looks. It just didn't seem to be their night, but they dug deep and figured out how to win. Jacob Drees’ ...

Maughmer’s triple-double extends Jackets’ winning streak to five

By Emily Tuttle The Cedarville men’s basketball team fought through a scrappy matchup and stoutly beat Wilberforce 98-70 on Wednesday night, January 17.  Wilberforce’s fast-paced nature forced the Jackets to push the ball and run the floor the entire game. The Jackets forced 19 turnovers and scored 24 points off of Wilberforce’s carelessness.  Cedarville played well as a team and moved the ball consistently. Although they shot only 31.7% from behind the arc, they ...

Cedarville Yellow Jackets weather the Lake Erie Storm in G-MAC showdown

By: Maggie Fipps The Cedarville Yellow Jackets defeated the Lake Erie Storm 92-86 on Saturday night. No, not the winter storm that raged outside, the storm brewing between these two G-MAC rivals.  Off the first tip, forward Jacob Drees scored, settling himself in as the offensive touchpoint of the game. He finished one assist shy of a triple double. “He's a catalyst to a lot of what we're doing,” said Cedarville Coach Pat Estepp. “He's starting to get back to where we knew ...

Brads’ Breakdown: 26 key stats for the NFL Playoffs

By Alan Brads Michigan, Pete Carroll, Nick Saban, Bill Belichick. What a week in football. But the fun has only just begun with wildcard weekend around the corner. The NFL’s format gives us enough consistency to find trends and stats to predict how things might go down between now and Super Bowl Sunday.  For example, before you pick Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce to usher in another Super Bowl era, did you know no team has won back-to-back Super Bowls since 2004? The ...

Plunge into Pickleball

By Maggie Fipps I could regurgitate facts about the year-over-year growth of the sport, or the thousands of courts installed across the country, including at Cedarville. But all you need to know is Tom Brady, Selena Gomez and even the Golden Bachelor himself, Gerry Turner, all play the game.  The sport blossomed in retirement communities in Arizona, but became the trendy sport for 20-somethings who left their high school tennis rackets behind but still want to wear that cute tennis ...

Cedarville legend Kirk Martin headed for Hall of Fame

By Alan Brads Kirk Martin, former head coach of Cedarville’s women’s basketball team, earned a nomination as an inductee to the Ohio basketball Hall of Fame. He will officailly join legendary Cedarville figures like Don Callan and Maryalyce Jeremiah as members of the Buckeye state’s hall of fame in April, 2024. Martin led the Lady Jackets from 2001-2016, but he had already made a name for himself at Southeastern High School, just 11 miles northeast of Cedarville. As a head ...

Born to Win: Addy Miller looks to continue impressive coaching career at Cedarville 

By Julia Swain  Before Addy Miller was an assistant coach for one of the top Division II teams in the country, before she went 90-30 in four seasons on the coaching staff at Pittsburg State, before she was named the Missouri Class Two player of the year, and before she was the state’s all-time leader in three pointers made (319), Miller was just a girl who loved basketball.  It just so happened that the game loved her back.  “I grew up playing, my parents coached me, ...

Army-Navy football game highlights a hundred year long tradition

By Janie Walenda It’s hard to not be a football fan in a football family.  Every fall my home is filled with the sounds of college football on television.  I don’t mind sitting in the living room while a game is on, and I love hearing my mom or my grandma reacting to the games, but there’s only one game I ever pay attention to.  Every year in early December, the football teams of the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy face off in the ...