After concluding conference play last Friday, the Hillsdale softball team will enter the GLIAC postseason tournament as the No. 6 seed, facing Saginaw Valley at noon on Friday. This marks the third consecutive year the team has made the conference tournament. “At the start of the year, for us coaches, our goal was to make...
Sophomore Joel Pietila is the first-ever GLIAC Golf Championship individual winner for the Hillsdale College golf program. In what was a rough weekend for the entire field, Pietila took the victory by shooting a four-over-par 220. He bested the second place finisher by two strokes. “Obviously, Joel is a tremendous player,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist...
This weekend, the Hillsdale College women’s track and field team competed at the 2017 Jesse Owens University Classic at Ohio State University and the GVSU Al Owens Open. The weekend was mostly about getting ready for the Gina Relays which the Chargers will host this weekend as the biggest meet in Hillsdale history. “Right now,...
Matthew Fritsche was named Hillsdale College’s seventh head women’s basketball coach on Tuesday. Fritsche joins the Chargers after serving four years as the assistant women’s basketball coach at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. During his tenure at Creighton, the lady Bluejays made the Division-I NCAA tournament every year from 2014-2017 and had an overall record...
At the time of year when student-athletes are under the most stress from both end-of-the-year projects and the heightened importance of end-of-the-season competition, the men’s track team posted more solid performances at the Al Owens and Jesse Owens invites this past weekend. At the Al Owens Classic in Allendale, Michigan, senior Todd Frickey and junior...