Track & Field: Distance running vets set standard
By Nick Robbe | Apr. 14, 2011At the tail end of their Bobcat careers, a duo of decorated distance runners is passing off the baton, in the figurative sense, to a group of freshmen.
At the tail end of their Bobcat careers, a duo of decorated distance runners is passing off the baton, in the figurative sense, to a group of freshmen.
The spring game: the one time of the year a team can beat itself and still expect to win. The one game that takes on the Little League mentality that everyone gets to play. The one game that often means nothing by the time September arrives, but tomorrow, it will be the only thing on the mind of the men wearing green or white on the turf at Peden Stadium.
If Ohio published a classified ad for its latest vacancy on the football field, it might read something like this …
The Bobcats are looking to bounce back this weekend from a rough ending to last week’s Bluegrass Invitational.
One year after a third-place finish at The Falcon Invitational, the Bobcats return to a golf course that yielded some of their best results.
With two outs, one on and Ohio down a run in the bottom of the ninth, Taylor Emody smacked a pitch deep to right field.
As the clock ticked down from one minute, Ohio University alumnus Adam Beatrice grabbed one of the dozen basketballs sitting at half court and heaved it toward the basket.
Whether quarterbacks Tyler Tettleton and Kyle Snyder are undersized is up for debate, but both players have one thing even less than size: experience.
For coach Joe Carbone, playing scientific baseball comes down to simple math.
It’s shaping up to be quite the season for Emily Wethington.
As the clock ticked down from one minute, Ohio University alumnus Adam Beatrice grabbed one of the dozen basketballs sitting at half court and heaved it toward the basket.
Team captain. All-American. Throughout his career with the Bobcats, Noah Keller has earned a variety of titles.
The Bobcats made a habit out of shutting down their opponents’ offenses last season. To their dismay, they often struggled to avoid zeroes on their own board.
Hijacked planes. Anthrax. Cellphone bombs. All of these are perfect reasons to have heightened security at sporting events.
The problem with the Bobcats’ recent string of errors, beyond the obvious impact on the games, is that after a certain point, there’s only so much for coaches to say.
After a consistent start to the UK Bluegrass Invitational, the Bobcats’ struggles on the last day brought down the team’s overall standings.
Like a sculptor creating a work of art, Ashley Waddington and other athletes used the Ohio Women’s Team Challenge to carve seconds off old personal records Saturday.
Akron pitcher Alex Riedeman confounded the Bobcat bats through four innings Saturday. Then rain came and changed Ohio’s fortunes.
Under normal circumstances, a fifth-place finish would be a welcome sight to the Bobcats — except when entering the final round in second place, that is.
Even though the weather has finally begun to warm up, the Bobcats’ bats have not.