Category: Sports

The regular season could not have finished any better for the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team. Unfortunately, the postseason did not go nearly as well. Before falling to the 23rd-ranked Oilers of University of Findlay last night in the quarterfinal round of the GLIAC tournament 47-67, the Chargers routed the Oilers by 19 points in...

Winning in basketball isn’t determined merely by which team shot the higher field goal percentage or grabbed more rebounds. If the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team had any doubt of that before this week, they learned it the hard way last Thursday at Malone University in a heart-breaking 81-80 defeat. “When you shoot 60 percent...

On Saturday, the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team came back home after two weeks on the road to defeat Walsh University. The Chargers were able to celebrate Senior Day by clinching a spot in the GLIAC tournament with the 75-63 victory. Walsh was the first team Hillsdale has defeated both times they have met this...

Last year, junior swimmer Rachel Kurtz missed going to nationals by a mere one-hundredth of a second. This year, however, things are different. At the GLIAC championships a couple of weeks ago, Kurtz earned a B-cut in both the 50 and 100-yard freestyle. On Feb. 26, those B-cuts became a ticket to nationals for Kurtz....

After a semester and a half of drills, weights, running, scrimmages, drills, “chalk talks,” game-planning, roster-tweaking, and more drills, Charger baseball begins their season this weekend. First-year head coach Eric Theisen leads the squad as they try to improve on last season’s record (20-25), which was the team’s best in a decade. Theisen said their...