Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Four days before spring football was set to begin, former head coach Mike Kramer was forced into retirement. Current head coach, Rob Phenicie, was brought back to Idaho State after leaving for Northern Iowa and offensive coordinator Matt Troxel was brought back after leaving for Montana. […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor For the first time in over a decade, both Idaho State men’s and women’s tennis teams punched their tickets to the Big Sky Conference tournament last week by clinching a spot in the top six positions of the conference. The men’s team finished fifth and the […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State doesn’t officially have a baseball team. There is no multi-million dollar, state of the art, on-campus baseball stadium with locker rooms, hot dog stands and media members. Instead, there’s a small ball field on West Alameda Avenue about three miles from campus where a […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State softball team lost three games to league-leading Weber State this weekend at Miller Ranch Stadium, losing two games of the three by one run. Head coach Candi Letts and right fielder Alex Portesi were ejected in game two of the series on separate […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State has won four football games in the last two seasons, two of which were to Division II schools, and the team has had two winning seasons since 2003. Stats like that indicate that something needs to change so Idaho State can finally start winning […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State men’s basketball team added four new transfer players this offseason, including the reigning Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year, Jacob McCord. McCord and five-foot-seven-point guard, Sam Dowd, out of North Idaho College and Blake Truman, who spent the last two seasons with […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Former offensive coordinator and quarterback’s coach, Rob Phenicie, who left briefly to coach receivers at Northern Iowa, was introduced as the Idaho State’s 27th head football coach last week just four days before the start of the spring footbal season. Phenicie started coaching at Northern Iowa […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After dropping two games last weekend, Idaho State now sits in fourth place in a tight Big Sky Conference softball race where all eight teams are separated by no more than two games. Six teams make the conference tournament at the end of the season and […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State women’s tennis lost all nine members from last year’s team, which included six seniors, forcing head coach Gretchen Maloney to start from scratch and recruit a new, all-freshman set of players. Despite being one of the youngest teams in the nation, with each member […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Former Idaho State head football coach Mike Kramer retired last Thursday following a meeting, which according to Athletic Director Jeff Tingey, was held with intention of improving the football program. Tingey said that if Kramer had not retired, he would no longer be coaching football at […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After a non-conference schedule that featured three top 25 teams, two of which are in the top 10, the Idaho State softball team has entered conference play battle-tested. The Bengals hold a 9-14 overall record with four of those 14 losses coming to teams that were […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Every year, millions of Americans fill out what they perceive to be the perfect bracket. After hours of research, which includes reading and watching every college basketball expert give their take on who they think is going to the Final Four; who is overrated and who’s […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State softball team opened conference play this weekend by taking two of three games from Portland State in a series where no game lasted a full seven innings. The series opened Saturday afternoon with a 14-0 ISU (9-14, 2-1 BSC) rout, which ended per […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor For the second consecutive season, the women’s basketball team fell short of a Big Sky championship after falling in the championship game to Montana State, 62-56, Saturday afternoon in Reno. ISU went 19-14 overall this season and earned the six-seed going into the conference tournament. Last […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After a 16-win season last year and losing one starter, the Idaho State men’s basketball team backed up one of the best seasons in recent program history with six total wins, four which came from Division I schools. The Bengals were the only school in the […]