By MARK SANDOVAL – CENTO WRITER The snow has melted and spring is finally showing her face in Danville, Ky. In addition to Easter and Derby preparations, this means that the baseball season for the Centre College Colonels is underway. Believe it or not, the college baseball season is actually winding down; the Colonels only have […]
Category: Sports
Tiger Woods: A Golf Legacy Stuck in Limbo
By Dana Reynolds – Staff Writer At his peak, Tiger Woods could have been considered the greatest golfer in the game. With his scoring records and margin-of-victory marks in major championships, he used to outshine anyone on the course. But each year, people await his comeback and it never seems to follow through. It is […]
A Lesson in Kentucky’s Bracketology
By Alex Mulhall – Cento Writer If you’ve lived in Kentucky for at least one full calendar year, there are three truths you have come to accept: first, you have no idea what the weather will be like tomorrow; second, you will get excited about the Kentucky Derby regardless of your knowledge of the sport […]
Women’s Softball prepares for conference play
By Rachel West – Managing Editor The Centre College softball team continues to push forward through their season, determined to turn an overall record of 5-8 around in time for the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Conference Tournament. The team’s record comes on the back of what was destined to be a difficult, hard-fought season. After […]
Pitcher of the Week Neu talks baseball, future
By Rachel West – Managing Editor The name “Kyle Neu” in Centre’s baseball program has almost become synonymous with the term “Pitcher of the Week.” It might seem like a joke, but it’s not: senior pitcher Neu has won conference Pitcher of the Week multiple times through two different conferences (Centre’s former conference of the […]
2014 World Cup in Brazil off to a rocky start
By: Alec Hudson – Staff Writer Brazil is on the move. With the first match of the 2014 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup coming in less than four months, the nation is scrambling to ensure that the facilities are prepared and that the infrastructure is working. At the same time, they are […]
The Play by Play: Finding unity in sports
By: CJ Donald – Columnist This semester, I am one of twenty-one students enrolled in Dr. Rick Axtell’s Religion 340 course entitled “Studies in Ethics: Poverty and Homelessness.” The course challenges stereotypes and strengthens social conscience in a variety of ways, the most striking of which includes an overnight stay in a homeless shelter. In […]
Centre Women’s Lacrosse has earned respect
By: Alex Mulhall – CENTO WRITER The Centre Women’s Lacrosse team is geared up and ready to take a big step forward in 2014. The team, which had its first season only three short years ago in 2011, reached the finals of the inaugural Southern Athletic Association (SAA) tournament last year, losing in a heartbreaker to […]
Men’s Basketball to host first round of NCAA
By: CJ Donald – Columnist After a 23-win season that brought the Centre College Colonels (23-4; 13-1 SAA) a Southern Athletic Association Tournament Championship, Centre Men’s Basketball earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament. On Thurs., March 6 at 7 p.m., the Colonels host the LaGrange (Ga.) Panthers in Alumni Gymnasium for Round […]
Women’s Basketball finishes the 2014 season strong
By RACHEL WEST – MANAGING EDITOR In the end, it wasn’t the season that the Centre College Women’s Basketball team had envisioned, but it was a good one all the same. The team’s season ended on Sun., March 2, when they fell 79-60 to Rhodes College in a hard-fought final game of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) […]