Yellow Jackets Sweep G-MAC Championship
by Tabitha DeHart
The Cedarville Men’s Cross Country team won the G-MAC Championships for the second year in a row on their home course this past Saturday, Oct. 26. Cedarville won the first five spots, gaining a perfect score of 15 points to create a large gap between the Jackets and the second-place finisher, Trevecca Nazarene (55 points) and third-place Davis and Elkins (81 points).
Matt Brooker repeated as individual meet champion, claiming the G-MAC Men’s Cross Country Runner of the ...
Lady Jackets Repeat as G-MAC Champions
The Lady Jackets won the G-MAC championships on their home course for the second year in a row Oct. 26. They won the meet with 41 points, narrowly beating Trevecca Nazarene, the runner-up with 47 points. Ursuline took third with 72 points.
The women’s head coach Jeff Bolender said that the Lady Jackets passed so many competitors in the last 100 meters of the race that Cedarville would not have won the meet had the race been 100 meters shorter.
Despite the less-than-ideal conditions - wind ...
Cedarville Wins in Frigid Temperatures
The Cedarville University men’s soccer team won its 11th game of the season on Thursday night 2-0 against opponent Trevecca Nazarene. With game temperatures starting at 40 degrees, it was Cedarville’s coldest game of the season.
Scoring was slow, and it did not come easy against Trevecca Nazarene. Both goals were scored by sophomore Connor Gilmour in the second half of the game. Cedarville and Trevecca Nazarene played staunch defense during the first half of the contest. It took a while ...
Yellow Jackets Roll Over Alderson Broaddus
Cedarville's men's soccer team dominated Alderson Broaddus Oct. 10 at its home field. The Yellow Jackets scored early and put away Alderson Broaddus in the second half with two goals, posting a final score of 3-0.
Cedarville was in control the entire game and played stifling defense to keep their opponent off the scoreboard.
Even though they scored early, they overcame a rather sluggish first half. A goal by sophomore Connor Gilmour started the scoring early. Goals by sophomore Christian ...
Column: The Rise of Cedarville Rugby
In November 2009, Andrew Held gathered a group of his friends and headed for the old intramural field to play his sport of choice – rugby. The field is small, located between Apple and Williams Hall. There were just a few guys present who knew little about the sport.
Every Friday this group of guys would head out to the same field and play for two hours. Some weeks, four guys would come and other weeks upward of 10. They were completely irrelevant to most of Cedarville’s campus.
Nearly ...
Women’s Cross-Country Competes At First Home of the Season
by Tabitha DeHart
The Lady Jackets ran in their first home meet on Saturday in the 23rd Annual Friendship Invitational. They placed seventh out of 11 schools, running in less than ideal conditions and with several of their runners still injured and unable to compete. The Lady Jackets tallied 153 points while the University of Dayton won the meet with 16 points and the runner up, Tiffin, earned 94.
Alex Archambault, after sitting out the season’s first race, placed 18th for the team in a ...
Cedarville Men’s Cross-Country Dominates Friendship Invitational
The Cedarville men dominated the field on Saturday in the 23rd Annual Friendship Invitational. They won the meet for the fourth year in a row (eighth time in the history of the meet) with 19 points, 60 points ahead of Cumberlands (Ky.), who finished with 79 points. Dayton took third as a team with 84 points.
On an overcast morning and with a slightly soggy field, Cedarville’s runners took five of the top seven places. Senior Matt Brooker repeated as meet champion, leading the race from the ...
Accident Changes Runner’s Perspective
On March 29, a Cedarville track runnerran 29:52 for 10 kilometers, meeting the qualifying standard for the NCAA Division II National Championships for track and breaking the previous school record of 30:01 held by 2003 graduate Sergio Reyes.
On March 30, that same runner, Matt Brooker, was rear-ended as he drove home from a track meet at Cedarville, leaving him with a broken scapula, a serious concussion and an uncertainty of whether he would beable to race at the national meet in May.
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Wittenberg Rugby Defeats Cedarville in Close Contest
The Cedarville University rugby team lost their first match of the season to Wittenberg University on Sept. 14. They battled for 80 minutes, with Wittenberg coming out on top, 24-12. Wittenberg scored early and left Cedarville in a deficit that they could not overcome.
Wittenberg took the lead 24-0 early in the second half but did not score again the rest of the game. Junior Bo Folger scored the first try of the season for the Yellow Jackets. Late in the game senior Chris Wiegand scored ...
Reese Leads Cedarville to Second Place Finish
Jordan Reese, a freshman from Cedarville, didn’t waste any time making his presence felt for the Yellow Jackets golf team. Reese shot a 2-under 70 on the final day of the tournament. His score helped the Yellow Jackets finish second at their home tournament held in Beavercreek Sept. 9 and 10.
Senior Jacob Nafziger finished tied for third place. Nafziger was impressed with his team’s performance and thought they had a great outing.
“We played really well as a team,” Nafziger said. ...
