Renee Shaktivel Staff Writer Hristina Cvetkovic is a sophomore tennis player from Nis, Siberia. She has been on the court since the age of seven, following in her mother’s footsteps. Her mother was a college athlete at Tyler Junior College and Grand Canyon University. She then went on to play […]
Women’s Tennis
The Bengal Sports Staff Men’s Basketball: SUU 76, ISU 68 The ISU men’s basketball team saw its season came to an end on Tuesday evening at the Reno Events Center after a 76-68 loss to Southern Utah in the opening round of the Big Sky Conference tournament. Brandon Boyd led […]
The Bengal Sports Staff Men’s Basketball: ISU 101, Montana State 78 A career-high of 33 points from Jared Stutzman and record-tying 17 3-pointers gave the men’s basketball team a 101-78 win over Montana State Thursday evening. The win gives ISU a 14-14 record and a 9-8 mark in the conference. ISU is […]
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 […]
Renee Shaktivel Staff Writer The twin sister duo of Huibre-Mare and Louise-Mare Botes have been conquering the ISU tennis court since they were freshmen, when they came to the United States from South Africa. Both sisters won Big Sky All-Conference honors last season, which hasn’t happened at ISU since 2013 […]
Lucas Gebhart Co-Editor in Chief and Sports Editor The ISU women’s tennis team does everything together. But when one of the team’s nine members was told that she should never play tennis again, the team’s chemistry grew even more. Hristina Cvetkovic’s injury stems from her shoulder, which causes problems with an artery […]
Jenna Larson Idaho State University Sports Information OGDEN, Utah – The Idaho State women’s tennis team completed its second fall tournament over the weekend at the Weber State Fall Invitational, hosted by Weber State in Ogden, Utah. Louise-Mare Botes and Huibre-Mare Botes led the Bengals in singles play, advancing to […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Following a season in which the Idaho State women’s tennis team punched its first ticket to the Big Sky Tournament since 2004 with a cast of only freshmen, the team opened its 2017 campaign with a preseason tournament held in Reed Gym. The three-day tournament featured […]
Jenna Larson Idaho State University Sports Information POCATELLO, Idaho – The Idaho State women’s tennis team had a strong start to the 2017 fall season with the completion of the Idaho State Invitational. Louise-Mare Botes, Huibre-Mare Botes and Hristina Cvetkovic led the Bengals in singles play, while the Botes’ sisters […]
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 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 […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer The Idaho State women’s tennis team is the youngest in the Big Sky Conference, as all nine members are in their freshman season. The team was picked to finish 8th in the conference preseason polls. Despite its youth, the team received 44 votes in the preseason […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer Melissa Coburn and Megan Poe are both freshmen from Texas and knew each other before they enrolled at Idaho State. Both finished their high school tennis careers ranked in the top 50 in the state of Texas and the pair attended the same high school, giving […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer The 2016 Idaho State women’s tennis team features nine fresh faces, a 100 percent turnover, requiring head coach Gretchen Maloney to recruit an all-new cast of players. Six teammates graduated in 2016, as expected, and the two remaining members decided this spring to pursue other opportunities. […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor “Everybody calls us the Germs.” Back in 2012, three tennis players from different parts of Germany all ended up at Idaho State University, ready to take on the Big Sky. Now in their senior campaigns, the trio looks to leave a mark on the ISU tennis […]