Chad Sutton stepped down as Mercer’s volleyball head coach to accept the same position at Appalachian State University on April 11 after leading the program to its first-ever outright regular season championship. The Mountaineers compete in the Sun Belt Conference."The Mercer Athletics family ...
Mercer softball (19-21, 1-7 SoCon) upset No. 16 University of Georgia (25-13), 5-2, on Wednesday, April 2 for the team's first top-25 win since 2018. The win pushed Mercer to a 6-1 record against in-state universities this season, and came just a week after the Bears took down Georgia Tech in Atlanta.For ...
Mercer softball (18-18) pulled off an 8-5 win over Georgia Tech (19-13) in Atlanta on Tuesday, March 25, snapping a four-game home win streak for the Yellow Jackets and giving Mercer their first win over Tech since 2013.The Bears were led by Sietske Drijvers ‘26, who went three-for-five on the night ...
Mercer baseball (19-10, 3-3 SoCon) beat Georgia State University (17-11) Tuesday evening, March 25, in dramatic fashion, with a walk-off three-run home run by Ty Dalley ‘26. The win 9-7 was the first in a 3-1 stretch for the Bears after losing their first Southern Conference series of the season against ...
The Mercer women’s lacrosse team (3-6) heads into conference play this Saturday at home against Wofford College (3-6) as the Bears finished up the non-conference part of their season with a 16-14 loss at home to Jacksonville University (5-4).The team had a difficult schedule in the first half of the ...
This past weekend, Mercer baseball played a three-game series at home against Tennessee Tech, a team the Bears had not yet played this season nor last season. Mercer entered the non-conference game 12-6 on the season and coming off of a two-game losing streak.Mercer won the series with two wins and ...
Mercer baseball (15-7) upset No. 5 Florida State University (18-2), 9-3, in Tallahassee on Tuesday, marking their second-straight season besting the Seminoles and their highest ranked win since beating No. 1 University of Florida in 2018.The Bears got on to a fast start after a two-run home run by Bradley ...
The Mercer women’s lacrosse team beat No. 9 Clemson (6-2), 11-10, in South Carolina on Tuesday, marking the first win against a ranked team in the history of the program.Mercer (3-4) jumped out to an early lead in the game as Ansley Walters '27, last season's Big South Freshman of the Year, ...
Head football coach Mike Jacobs has been given a contract extension through 2029, according to an announcement from Mercer Athletics. During his first year at Mercer, he led the team to a 11-3 overall record and the program's first-ever Southern Conference championship."My family and I are ...
Men's basketballThe men's basketball season ended with a loss in the quarterfinals to the No. 1-ranked University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 76-61. Before that, the Bears beat Western Carolina University in the first round of the Southern Conference tournament, 67-66, to advance to the ...
Mercer baseball closed out a three-game series at home versus Southern University this past Saturday, winning two of the three games to advance their record to 12-4.The series began March 7 with a shutout win for the Bears, 6-0. Reigning SoCon Pitcher of the Week Colton Cosper ‘25 started for the ...
Men's basketball finished its season on Saturday, booking a spot in the opening round of the Southern Conference tournament after being led to a 13-18 overall record in Head Coach Ryan Ridder's first season with the Bears. Mercer will face Western Carolina University on March 7, in Asheville, ...
Men's basketball's five-game losing streak was broken on Wednesday, but a few days later, the team lost another game to leave their record at 12-17 on the season and 5-11 in Southern Conference play with two games to go in the regular season. The Bears beat The Citadel, 62-52, in Charleston, ...
This past week, the women's basketball team lost their fourth and fifth games in a row and brought their season record to 7-20 on the season and 2-10 in the Southern Conference. The Bears lost to Furman University (14-14, 4-8 SoCon), 72-70, in Greenville, S.C. on Thursday, and fell to Wofford College, ...
The women's basketball team is now on a three-game losing streak, 7-18 overall and 2-8 in the Southern Conference after a two-loss home stand last week during which the Bears faced off against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and East Tennessee State University.Mercer lost 69-39 to Chattanooga ...
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