The Waynesburg men’s and women’s track & field teams reached the halfway point of their respective seasons this past Saturday at the Dave Labor Invitational at Slippery Rock University. The Yellow Jackets competed with fellow NCAA Division III teams as well as Division II schools. There was no team scoring for the event. Junior Mike … Continue reading
Playoffs—that’s the ultimate goal for this year’s Waynesburg University baseball team. If the season ended this weekend, the Yellow Jackets would find themselves in the four-team playoff field, as the fourth seed. However, a game and a half separate Waynesburg from Westminster, who currently sits in 6th place in the conference. Ironically enough, the Yellow … Continue reading
Coming into Waynesburg University two years ago, Mason Miller was 6 feet and 5 inches tall, weighing around 150 pounds. Now, he has gained 25 pounds and is the ace of the baseball team’s pitching staff. Not only is Miller Waynesburg’s No. 1 starter, he leads the entire Presidents’ Athletic Conference with 60 strikeouts and … Continue reading
A rainy day on the golf course couldn’t stop the Waynesburg University men’s and women’s golf teams from teeing up Saturday, April 6. The men’s golf team took eighth place out of nine participating teams at the Thiel College Invitational at Avalon Golf and Country Club in Hermitage. “Some days, you just don’t play your best, but we … Continue reading
Looking towards the weekend, Waynesburg’s softball team has a quartet of Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) games that will have a significant impact on playoff implications. The Yellow Jackets will take on Geneva this Friday in a doubleheader at home before traveling to Greenville, Pennsylvania to take on the Thiel Tomcats Saturday. Both teams currently rank … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University women’s golf team is looking forward to a big match when it travels to Chestnut Ridge Golf Course for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference spring championships Saturday, April 13. The Yellow Jackets finished the fall season at the PAC Fall Championships in fifth place out of the five competing teams. Sophomore Deanna Nagel … Continue reading
The softball team hit the road for a pair of games Tuesday evening losing both to the fifth-place team in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, the Chatham Cougars. The Jackets (6-18 overall, 2-6 PAC) fell in the first game, 3-1, in part to the Cougars [9-13, 3-3] jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University softball team will continue Presidents’ Athletic Conference play when it heads to Grove City to take on the Wolverines later today. Going into the game, head coach Brett Shimek will have a few days to prepare as the team has had a few days off. “We have to be mentally focused to … Continue reading
Coming back from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, first-year Waynesburg University head softball coach Brett Shimek experienced a “nine-hour bus ride of emotional thoughts.” The emotion had nothing to do with what happened on the team’s spring break trip, where the Yellow Jackets struggled to a 2-6 start. The reason Shimek carried a heavy heart on … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University baseball team believed they were the better squad entering the Bethany matchup. “We have to think that we are going to be the better team in the series,” these were the words uttered by junior pitcher Mason Miller and senior infielder Tyler Reis in regards to the Bethany series. For the most … Continue reading
