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...
Category: Sports 2016
Men’s track makes strides to improve
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...
Softball secures spot in final GLIAC tournament
The Hillsdale College softball team secured a spot in the GLIAC tournament in an increasingly competitive conference after splitting with the Ashland Eagles and the Ohio Dominican Panthers and ending their final home game of the season with a 9-3 win. The games put Hillsdale at 13-7 in the conference and 25-20 overall. The Chargers...
Tennis finishes fourth in GLIAC tournament
In the program’s second year of competition, the Hillsdale College men’s tennis team finished fourth in the GLIAC tournament after a 1-2 weekend in Midland, Michigan. The Chargers edged out No. 4 seed Wayne State University 5-4 on Friday evening in the GLIAC quarterfinals before falling to No. 1 seed Ferris State on Saturday and...
Baseball splits with Grand Valley, falls to Concordia
After splitting a crucial four-game series with the Grand Valley Lakers, the Hillsdale College baseball team dropped a nonconference game 9-5 to the Concordia Cardinals on Wednesday. The meat of the week was the split with Grand Valley, moving Hillsdale to 12-12 in the GLIAC, which places them at seventh in the conference with two...