Sports & Outdoors

The Puget Sound baseball team had an eventful weekend of games this week as they traveled south to Oregon. The Loggers were part of the NWC/CCC Challenge this weekend and played several Oregon teams. On Saturday, Feb. 23 the Loggers faced off against Oregon Tech and Willamette; on Sunday, Feb. 24 they played Concordia University. During their first game against Oregon Tech, both teams struggled to score the first run. The game remained scoreless until the top of the fifth inning when Oregon Tech scored the first run of the...

Women’s softball entered the 2013 season with high hopes and a brand new head coach, Kellyn Tate. Armed with four veteran seniors, the team also boasts a number of promising freshman players who are expected to make an impact on the Loggers’ future success. Following last year’s seventh-place finish in a tie, the Loggers were picked by the NWC poll to finish in eighth place this season amid a highly competitive and tough conference. The Loggers began their season with the Northwest Cup, competing in a double-header on Saturday, Feb....

The 2013 men’s tennis seasoned opened one week ago today and although the Loggers had home court advantage they unfortunately were unable to hold off the Pacific Boxers with an 8-1 loss. Junior John Stevens (Portland, Ore) scored the Loggers (0-1, 0-1 NWC) only point during the number-six singles match. Stevens left the court with a 6-3 7-5 win over Pacific’s Ty Tanaka.  Unfortunately, the Boxers came out on top in other matches to walk away with the win. However, that is not to say that the Loggers did not...

Led by head coach Brian Billings, a former Puget Sound alumnus and baseball player with 10 years of coaching experience at Puget Sound under his belt, Logger baseball is looking to capitalize on the many talents of its dynamic mixture of veteran players and evolving young stars. Last season, the baseball team struggled to find its rhythm, finishing the 2012 season with a 10-28-1 (.269) record, including a 6-18 NWC (.250) finish, putting the Loggers at seventh in the conference. This season the Loggers have returned with a talented group...

The Logger women’s tennis team started off 2013 with a bang in a couple of rousing victories on the road in their first two matches of the new year, as they dealt with both Pacific and George Fox to get off to a 2-0 start in Northwest Conference play. Coming off of an up-and-down season in 2012 in which they finished with a meager 8-9 record overall but ended the season on a tear, winning six of their final seven matches, the Loggers were eager to pick up right where...

Kelsey McKinnis recorded a team high with 14 points and two steals in her final game as a Logger on Senior Night, but it was not enough for Puget Sound to contain the Bruins from George Fox Saturday night at the Memorial Fieldhouse. “George Fox is a very physical team and we got into a stretch where we rushed some shots,” head coach Loree Payne explained.  “We had good looks but we weren’t taking our time and converting on them because the adrenaline was up, and the composure part hurt...

The Puget Sound women’s basketball team has had a great start to their season so far with a four game winning streak. This past weekend on Saturday, Dec. 1 and Sunday, Dec. 2 the Loggers participated in the Hampton Inn Classic in Santa Cruz, Calif. The Loggers won both games, pushing them to 6-1 overall as they head into their conference games next weekend. In Saturday’s game the Loggers faced off against La Verne for their first game at the Hampton Inn Classic. It was an easy win for the...

As the winter sports season begins to gain its momentum on the Puget Sound campus, we turn our attention away from the field and look indoors.  However, it is not only the court that we should be keeping a constant eye on, it is also the pool. Logger swimming is one of the strongest athletics programs on campus, racking up countless wins in the Northwest Conference as well as setting records left and right. Their season so far has been going strong, and this past weekend was no exception as...

While the rest of the team was swimming for Puget Sound at the Husky Invitational, a couple of Logger swimmers had a unique opportunity. Junior Derek Frenzel (Moscow, Idaho) and senior Tracy Wormwood (Elk River, Minn.) were selected to attend the 2012 AT&T Winter National Championships from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 in Austin, Texas. The competition was not limited to Division III schools, and included many much larger state schools with well-established swimming programs. Even more exciting, one of the participants in the Winter Championships was Ryan Lochte, of...

Chris McDonald (Newton, Mass.) is a senior here at the University of Puget Sound who majors in Molecular and Cellular Biology. As the goalkeeper for Puget Sound’s soccer team, he earned All-NWC Honors and Academic All-District Honors as a sophomore. This year, he is a team captain and the president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He ended his senior year by becoming the Loggers’ all-time leader in shutouts and fourth in NCAA Division III history, while being selected to the All-Northwest Conference First Team. Student-athletes like McDonald do not come...