The Bengal Sports Staff Men’s Tennis: ISU 4, Metro State 3 The men’s tennis team extended its win streak to three matches with a 4-3 win at Metro State on Sunday afternoon. It was the first time this season the Bengals have competed outdoors. The Bengals clinched the doubles point […]
Softball
Kiran Pandey Staff Writer Many athletes play multiple sports before finding their niche. Makenzie VanSickle knows exactly what that is like as she started with basketball and soccer, before finding her place in softball as a utility player. Her main position is center field, but she also does catching. VanSickle […]
The Bengal Sports Staff Men’s Tennis: Weber State 6, ISU 1 The men’s tennis team dropped a 6-1 decision at Weber State. The Bengals dropped the doubles point and picked up one singles win in the loss. ISU 6, North Dakota 1 The men’s tennis team snapped a five-match losing […]
The Bengal Sports Staff Men’s Basketball: ISU 86, hIdaho 83 ISU beat Idaho 86-83 thanks to a 3-pointer by Brandon Boyd with two seconds left in the game. Boyd had a career-high 32 points on 11-of-16 shooting. He was 6-of-8 from the three-point line, 4-of-4 from the foul line. He […]
Madeline Leavitt Staff Writer Last season, the ISU softball team finished sixth in the regular season, squeaked into the conference tournament on the last day of the season and was one game away from advancing to the conference championship game. The Bengals lost 8-6 in extra innings to Weber State […]
Lucas Gebhart Co-Editor-in-Chief/Sports Editor The only person in Dan Ryan’s weight room on a mid-afternoon day during finals week last semester was a student intern, one who has high hopes of breaking into the industry the same way Ryan did in the early 2000s. But this intern wasn’t helping or […]
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 […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Haley Harrison wasn’t planning on transferring from Utah Valley when she quit the team following the 2016 season, but when a childhood friend floated the idea of playing softball for Idaho State, Harrison’s future fell into place. Within a week, her mind was made up. She […]
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 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 […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer In a three-hit game against Fresno State earlier this season, Kacie Burnett became ISU’s all-time hit leader, breaking former power-hitting catcher Vicky Galasso’s record. But this is not the first record Burnett has broken during her ISU career. Among the records are most stolen bases and […]
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 This weekend, the Idaho State softball team will travel to Eugene, Oregon to participate in a tournament hosted by the University of Oregon, who is currently ranked 4th in the USA Today Coaches/NFCA Coaches Polls. The Bengals are scheduled to play the Ducks twice this weekend […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor For the first time in recent history, the Idaho State softball team has trekked into unchartered territory as the Bengals were picked to finish outside the top three in the Big Sky Conference for the first time since 2012 and received no first place votes in […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State left fielder Kacie Burnett was named Top 50 “Watch List,” for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. This is the second consecutive season that Burnett was named to the list, making her the first player in school history to be named to […]