Sports & Outdoors

The NCAA Division I football playoffs are a new feature to college football this year.  The teams were selected on Dec. 7 and will play their respective semifinal games on Jan. 1 2015. The Bowl Championship Series championship game was the previous version of championship that the NCAA used, but after multiple controversies over the selection of the two competitors in the championship, the College Football Playoff  (CFP) was implemented starting at the beginning of the 2014 season. The CFP competitors are selected by a committee of 13 experts on...

The Puget Sound women’s basketball team took on the University of California at Santa Cruz Banana Slugs and the Colorado College Tigers Dec. 5 and 6 at a tournament hosted by Pacific Lutheran University. The Loggers remain undefeated this season after walking away with two wins over both teams during the tournament. First, the Loggers defeated the Slugs 53-51, handing them their second loss of the season. During the first half, Puget Sound shot into the lead right away. After allowing the Slugs two points, the Loggers bounced back, scored...

The Puget Sound men’s basketball team beat the University of California at Santa Cruz 65 to 52 on Dec. 5 to improve their record to 4-2. With the team’s win again UC Santa Cruz, the Loggers have increased their winning streak to three games. The previous two wins came during the Loggers’ road trip when they traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii. The Loggers’ 65-point win was only three points behind their season average. They are currently averaging 68 points per game through five games. What was most impressive for the Loggers’...

    Katy Ainslie (Redmond, Wash.) is on the top of her game this year as a senior and is looking to lead the Loggers’ women’s basketball team to a conference title in her final year. She averaged 13.3 points per game and 5.1 rebounds so far this season. The Loggers are off to a 7-0 start this season and don’t seem to be letting up anytime soon after beating Santa Cruz 53-51 this past Friday Dec. 7 and crushed Colorado College 94-45 on Saturday Dec. 8. Ainslie added 10...

This past weekend the men’s basketball team headed down to Hawaii for the Surf’s Up Classic in Honolulu hosted by Kalani High School. The team had quite the success, winning both of their games against Luther College and Cal Lutheran respectively in the non-conference matchup, bringing their season record to 3-3. In the first game on Nov. 28 they played Luther winning 63-61 in a thriller led by senior Nick Holden (Pasadena, Calif.) who scored 16 points and brought in five rebounds and junior Keith Shattuck (Lake Forest Park, Wash.)...

The Puget Sound Women’s basketball team remains undefeated after its win against Concordia on Sept. 29. The team’s record improves to 5-0. Last Saturday the Loggers won 69-56 on the road against Concordia. No team has scored more than 57 points against the loggers this season. Senior forward Katy Ainslie (Redmond, Wash.) recorded her first double-double of the season. A double-double is when a player has double digit statistics in two statistical categories. Ainslie finished the game with 25 points and 11 rebounds. Junior guard Emily Sheldon (Portland, Ore.) scored...

The Logger swimming teams opened their season this year very well, sprinting out to a 4-0 lead in the Northwest Conference (NWC) with only one loss (which happened outside of conference play).  The Loggers won two meets on Nov. 14 and 15 at home against the Willamette Bearcats and the Linfield Wildcats. The Women’s squad started the weekend with a landslide against the Bearcats, winning the meet with a score of 144 to Willamette’s 60. Melissa Norrish (Denver, Colo.) took the meet by storm and notched herself three first place...

The men’s and women’s Cross Country teams are enjoying strong seasons despite dealing with some key injuries. Their success was on display in the NWC Championships on Nov. 1 when the men’s team placed second and the women’s placed third. Now the teams prepare for  Regionals in Independence, Ore. at Oak Knoll Golf Course on Nov. 15. Both the men’s and women’s team look forward to this, as it is another step towards a national championship. At Regionals last year the men’s team placed seventh and the women’s fifth. Both...