Women’s Softball Determined to Transfer Pre-Season Success into Spring Season
Sophie Peel, Staff Writer
January 30, 2016
The Women’s softball team went undefeated in the 2015 pre-season. Headed into spring, the ladies hope to continue their dominance. Head coach James DeFeo, who is in his fifth year as the softball head coach, credits the team’s preseason success to their unrelenting preparation. He said that wh...
Thanksgiving: Exiled from the holiday season
Gabriel Garcia, Contributing Writer
November 12, 2015
Filed under Cluster Editorial, Opinions
When I was about four years old, I learned that Christmas was actually a two month holiday which started on the first day of November — or at least that is what all of the stores and malls that I visited made me believe. It seems as if the jack-o-lanterns and ghosts on candy bags turn into Chr...
Mercer Football returns: Watch out for these Bears
Nicholas Wooten, Managing Editor
August 14, 2015
Filed under Campus, Football, Showcase, Sports
Head Football Coach Bobby Lamb and his Mercer Bears are optimistic as the program enters its third season. After going an astounding 10-3 in their first season since 1941, Lamb and the Bears moved up to the Southern Conference and showed flashes of excellence, but failed to execute when it...
Awards season preview: Who will win the biggest awards of the year?
February 8, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
It’s the New Year, which means one thing: hella awards being given out. Award season has gone into full effect with the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards already being finished but in movies we still await the Academy Awards, the most coveted prize in cinema, as well as in mus...
Holiday travelers beware, traffic jams a given this holiday season
December 7, 2011
Filed under Opinions
I don’t have very many extended family members that live nearby. If I want to visit with my relatives, I have to travel to the other side of the country. My grandparents were in California visiting from the Philippines this Thanksgiving, and my mom wanted to take a trip out to see them. The stay in...
Softball goes 7-1 in fall, looks to build strength
November 16, 2011
After losing superstar pitchers Jenni Holtz and Kari Chambers, speedster Anna Johnson and starting second baseman Amanda Santa Maria to graduation, things weren’t looking very bright for the Lady Bears softball squad. It also didn’t help when they got word of the sudden departure of Head Coach Mike...
Cross country caps season with 6th, 7th place finishes in A-Sun
November 2, 2011
Filed under Sports
Mercer’s men and women’s cross country teams wrapped up their season this past Saturday with their conference finals in Nashville, TN. Both teams posted similar performances with the women taking sixth and the men taking seventh out of 10 overall squads. Both teams have had strong performances leading...
Coaching Spotlight: Bobby Lamb
October 11, 2011
Filed under Sports
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