It has been an eventful two weeks for senior wrestler Jake Evans—one of triumph, confusion, then triumph again. One thing is certain now, however: the standout heavyweight has rewritten the NCAA history books. With a pin against Washington & Jefferson freshman Jake Walker in the PAC championship round this past Friday, Evans now has 175 … Continue reading
With the Presidents’ Athletic Conference basketball season beginning to wrap up, the playoff bracket is slowly filling itself out. St. Vincent continues to lead the conference, while Washington & Jefferson sits in fifth, and Waynesburg University jumped to sixth following its big win over W&J Wednesday, Feb. 6. The Jackets defeated the Presidents 85-67, before … Continue reading
The Waynesburg women’s basketball team will hit the road Saturday and meet the Bethany Bison for one final regular season contest, with both squads looking to secure a higher seed heading into the Presidents’ Athletic Conference tournament next week. The first meeting between the two squads Jan. 16 ended with a 69-61 Waynesburg victory, but … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University women’s basketball team started its final three games of the regular season with an 80-57 loss at the hands of the St. Vincent Bearcats. The Bearcats currently rank first in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and gave the Yellow Jackets their fair share of struggles throughout the game. After a solid first four … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University women’s indoor track & field team competed in a pair of meets this past weekend. A group of the distance runners for the Yellow Jackets participated in the Youngstown State University Mid-Major Invitational, while others competed in the Jim Wuske Invitational at Mount Union University. The invitationals did not host team scoring. … Continue reading
The Presidents’ Athletic Conference’s men’s basketball season, to this point, can perhaps best be described as “St. Vincent and everybody else.” As of this publication, the Bearcats (18-3, 11-1) had a 3.5 game lead on second-place Grove City, with their lone conference loss coming at Westminster Feb. 2. Waynesburg University will face a tall task … Continue reading
Entering the fourth week of the spring semester, the workload for students on the campus of Waynesburg University starts to ramp up. This is no exception for the indoor track & field teams. The men’s and women’s teams competed twice in Ohio over the weekend—Friday night at Youngstown State University and Saturday at the University … Continue reading
To begin the semester, they were 4-12. Ever since, the Waynesburg University women’s basketball team has rattled off four wins in its last six contests and are now competing for a home playoff game. Most recently, the Jackets picked up a 76-62 win over Geneva College. “We’ve been paying more attention to the little details,” … Continue reading
From 2005-2018, Thomas More University (formerly Thomas More College) was in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. Out of those 13 years, 12 featured Thomas More’s women’s basketball team claiming the PAC championship. Even in the one year Thomas More didn’t win it all, it still appeared in the championship game. The ludicrously one-sided women’s basketball bracket … Continue reading
Last year when the Waynesburg University wrestling team traveled to the John Summa Invitational, it finished in eighth place. This year the team improved, placing fourth place thanks to strong showings from junior Dan Verhovsek in the 157-165 pound weight class and freshman Dylan Williams, (125). Both wrestlers were able to reach the semifinals but … Continue reading
