Seiji Wood Sports Editor The ISU football team lost, 48-41, last Saturday to Liberty. The Bengals are now 4-3 on the season after losing two close games in back-to-back weeks. This game was a non-conference game, so it doesn’t affect ISU in the conference standings, but how “a win is […]
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All about sports at Idaho State University. We include stories about our traditional university sponsored sports like Football, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball and Volleyball as well as the independent club sports like Rugby, Archery and Judo.
Seiji Wood Sports Editor Iona native and Bonneville High School graduate, Haylie Keck, is a key player on Idaho State’s volleyball team, exceling as the team’s libero and setting records along the way. Keck is currently Idaho State’s single-season record holder in digs, ranking in the top two spots with […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor Idaho State’s football team is off to one of its best starts in years with a 4-2 record midway through the season. The Bengals are 3-1 in conference play and are tied for second in the conference standings. The only losses so far this season have […]
Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter Over half of the ISU women’s soccer team is comprised of returning players who have never seen the team have a winning season, and this year’s team is trying to change that trend. As of September 30, the Bengals are currently 2-9 overall, but are 1-3 […]
Dylon Harrison Staff Writer For some athletes, a major surgery can be career-ending. Rachel McGovern, captain of ISU’s women’s cross country team, could have been one of those athletes, but she refused to give up without a fight. Before coming to ISU, McGovern had a surgery that removed part of […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU’s football team won its second consecutive game Saturday on Homecoming against NAU, 56-42. The win snapped a 10-game losing streak against the Lumberjacks and the Bengals are now 3-1 overall and 2-0 in conference play, which is the first time they’ve started 2-0 in the […]
Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This year, students at ISU have a lot to look forward to under the new Satterlee Administration when it comes to a game day atmosphere this fall at football games. In collaboration with the 1901 Club, a student-alumni association founded to bring people together to celebrate […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU volleyball senior, Abby Garrity, is currently leading the Big Sky Conference in kills with 219 and is 13th overall in the national rankings, which are impressive stats when you consider that Garrity is mostly deaf. She can’t hear anything out of her left ear and […]
Football Sept. 29: Northern Arizona, 2 35p.m. – Holt Arena Volleyball Sept. 27: Eastern Washington, 7 p.m. – Reed Gym Sept. 29: Idaho, 7 p.m. – Reed Gym Oct. 2: Weber, 7 p.m. -Reed Gym Soccer Sept. 28: Sacramento State, 4:30 p.m. – Sacramento,CA Sept. 30: Portland State, 2 p.m. […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU’s football team opened conference play last Saturday against No. 22 North Dakota. The previous two games with the Fighting Hawks have been close and this game wasn’t much different. It was a tough fought game with ISU walking away with the win, 25-21, the first […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU’s volleyball team will open conference play this Thursday against Northern Arizona (NAU). The Bengals are headed to Flagstaff with a 6-7 record in the 2018 season. ISU has tough task with NAU. NAU is currently 8-5 and has already found great success this season. During […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor Senior Tristen Spooner has logged over 3,700 minutes for ISU’s soccer team during her four years. Spooner started her freshman year and has played in every game except for three, putting her on track to make history by cracking the Bengals top 10 in logged minutes. […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor On Jan. 25, North Dakota (UND), ISU’s football opponent this Saturday, announced they would leave the Big Sky Conference and join the Summit League and Missouri Valley starting in the 2018-2019 season. The Summit League doesn’t sponsor football, so school officials at UND then stated the […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU will start conference play against North Dakota this Saturday. The Bengals are currently 1-1 and up to this point, I’m left with one question: who are we? ISU opened the season with a 45-10 win against Western State of Colorado, a Division II school and […]
Lucas Gebhart Editor-in-Chief About 13 months ago, a group of football boosters known as the Football Alumni Team (F.A.T) submitted an op-ed to the Idaho State Journal calling for the removal of former president Author Vailas and former athletic director Jeff Tingey. The group said they were going to withhold […]