The women’s bas­ket­ball team dropped its con­fer­ence opener to Grand Valley

Making a Pass: Junior Tiara Adams (#44) gears up for a pass in the recent game against Lewis. Throughout the game, Adams scored 13 points and had three steals and 3 assists. The Bulldogs walked away with a 74–66 vic­tory. Photo By: Kristyn Sonnenberg | Photo Editor

Ferris started off the home sched­ule with a 74–66 win over the Lewis Flyers on Nov. 24.

Ferris jumped out to a five point lead early in the first half and took a 30–25 lead into the half on 54.2% shoot­ing from the field.

After hold­ing the lead for the begin­ning of the sec­ond half, the Flyers bat­tled back to force a 50–50 tie with 7:42 left to play. The Bulldogs proved to be too much as they went on 24–16 run at the end to seal the victory.

Leading the way for Ferris was junior guard Becci Houdek, who dropped in 14 points and six assists. Sophomore guard Lindsey Pettit put up 13 points and junior for­ward Amy Joostberns added 12 points and six rebounds. Pettit said the team was deter­mined to start the home sched­ule on a pos­i­tive note. Continue Reading…

The Bulldogs man­han­dled Grand Valley for their first vic­tory of the sea­son at Wink Arena

Taking the Leap: Freshman Daniel Sutherlin takes a shot at Monday night’s bas­ket­ball game against Grand Valley State. Sutherlin’s slam dunk in the first half helped the Bulldogs along their path to a 67–41 vic­tory. Photo By: Kate Dupon | Photographer

The Bulldogs ended their three-game los­ing skid as they won their home opener 67–41 over Grand Valley State. Ferris improved its record to 1–3 over­all and 1–0 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). This was the first GLIAC con­test of the sea­son through­out the entire league.

Junior forward/center Justin Keenan paced a bal­anced offen­sive effort for the Bulldogs with 15 points and seven rebounds. Keenan was only 1–7 from the floor, but was 13–18 from the free throw line. Junior guard Darien Gay shot 5–8 from the field en route to 13 points and three assists. Ferris had eight play­ers score five or more points in the con­test. Continue Reading…

Ferris ath­letic teams have shown why they deserve as much fan sup­port as possible

Ferris State ath­let­ics have given sports fans some­thing to cheer about this semes­ter and the stu­dent ath­letes, coaches and staff deserve loyal fans.

Fans of all sports should embrace the tri­umphs the Ferris ath­letic teams have had so far this year. If the team did not do as well, they still deserve sup­port. Teams will be more apt to play well if they have a large crowd behind them.

All sports deserve more fans and more sup­port, but the men’s golf and the women’s cross coun­try teams are at the top of the list. I under­stand that these sports only com­pete at home once each sea­son, but that is why they need fans behind them. Continue Reading…

Hockey

• Dec. 4 vs. Nebraska-Omaha 7:05 p.m.
• Dec. 4 vs. Nebraska-Omaha 5:05 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

• Dec. 3 vs. Ashland 8:00 p.m.
• Dec. 5 vs. Tiffin 2:00 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

• Dec. 3 vs. Ashland 6:00 p.m.
• Dec. 5 vs. Tiffin 12:00 p.m.

Ferris extends win­ning streak at home to 8–0 with sweep of Ohio State

The Ferris State hockey team is ranked 17^th in the nation accord­ing to U.S. College Hockey Online after sweep­ing the Ohio State Buckeyes at home.

The Bulldogs improved to 8–0 at home this sea­son, adding to two more vic­to­ries to the already school-record home start. Ferris has outscored its oppo­nents 39–16 in eight home con­tests this season.

The team is 9−3−2 over­all and 4−2−2−2 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). The team improved to third over­all in the CCHA with 16 points, behind only Miami and Michigan State. Ferris is unbeaten in its last six con­tests and has not lost since Oct. 31.
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The Bulldogs posted two shootout vic­to­ries over No. 1 Miami (Ohio)

Griggs: Junior Zach Redmond crosses the ice in Miami this week­end. Redmond earned his sev­enth assist of the sea­son on Friday after inter­cept­ing the puck from Miami’s top-ranked team and pass­ing it to team­mate Blair Riley, who scored his sev­enth goal of the sea­son. Photo Courtesy of Miami Student Newspaper Photographer, Michael

Ferris improved to 7−3−2 over­all this sea­son and 2−2−2−2 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) after earn­ing four points in the con­fer­ence stand­ings. Head coach Bob Daniels believes the team is improved, but must con­tinue to work on a few areas.

“After this week­end, I think we have a chance to be a very good team,” said Daniels. “But we have to con­tinue to work hard if we’re going to get there.” Continue Reading…

Torch Staff Report

The new points sys­tem for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) includes one major change from last season.

Each win, whether in reg­u­la­tion or over­time, is worth three points instead of two. If two teams are tied after over­time, then there will be a shootout.

Each team receives one point for reach­ing the shootout and the win­ner receives an addi­tional point for a total of two. Any loss in reg­u­la­tion or over­time gar­ners zero points.

Last sea­son, the CCHA was the first Division I col­lege hockey league to add a shootout after over­time in an effort to reflect more closely the NHL sys­tem. The CCHA stand­ings include four columns, while the over­all stand­ings still have three. An addi­tional col­umn denot­ing shootout wins (SW) indi­cates the num­ber of post-overtime vic­to­ries the team has.

If a team reaches the shootout, it is recorded as a tie in the over­all stand­ings whether they win or lose. When a team’s CCHA record is given, it may con­tain four columns instead of three depend­ing on whether or not they have won a shootout. The Bulldogs have a con­fer­ence record of 2−2−2−2. The team has played six con­fer­ence games, but there are eight num­bers in the stand­ings. The first three num­bers com­bined give the num­ber of games played.

Tina Muir and the women’s cross coun­try team look to fin­ish the sea­son strong

Tina Muir: Junior Tina Muir was recently named to the United States Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II All-Midwest Region Team. Photo By: Kristyn Sonnenberg | Photo Editor

Muir, a junior from St. Albans, United Kingdom, has been liv­ing in the United States for four years. She left her fam­ily and moved to Michigan at the age of 19 to pur­sue an edu­ca­tion and to run cross coun­try and track.

“I really wanted to come to school over here exactly for this rea­son because of how sup­port­ive every­one is,” said Muir.

Muir won the Midwest Regional event by 10 sec­onds over Mary Ballinger of Southern Indiana University. Ironically, Southern Indiana is host­ing the NCAA-II National Championships on Saturday in Evansville, Ind. Muir said she is capa­ble of a very high finish.

“Anywhere in the top 10 is a pos­si­bil­ity, but I’d really like top five,” said Muir. “That would be a good goal right now.”

Muir has already piled up many achieve­ments this sea­son as she won the GLIAC and Regional Championships and was named the conference’s “Runner of the Year”. She, along with fresh­man Anna Rudd, was named to the United States Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II All-Midwest Region Team. Continue Reading…

Women will be look­ing to shock and awe in NCAA tour­na­ment to close out season

Flying High: Senior Sarah Lark spikes the ball over oppo­nents dur­ing a recent game. The vol­ley­ball team will travel to Indianapolis on the 19^th for the first round of NCAA D-II Midwest Region games. Photo By: Kate Dupon | Photgrapher

Ferris was one of the 64 teams selected to take part in the tour­na­ment. Ferris is the sev­enth seed in the Midwest Region and will take on second-seeded Lewis University (27−4). Lewis (Ill.) is cur­rently ranked 11^th nation­ally. The Bulldogs fin­ished the reg­u­lar sea­son with a 19–11 over­all record.

The team will be look­ing to per­form at a high level in order to pull the upset and avenge their 3–0 defeat to Lewis ear­lier this sea­son in the GLVC Crossover tour­na­ment. Coach Tia Brandel-Wilhelm believes that this team’s hard work and tena­cious­ness will ben­e­fit them.

“As always we are just going to have to take care of play on our side of the court,” said Brandel-Wilhelm. Continue Reading…

Hockey

• Nov. 20 vs. Ohio State 7:05 p.m.
• Nov. 21 vs. Ohio State 5:05 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

• Nov. 20 @ Gannon (Pa.) 6:00 p.m.
• Nov. 21 @ Edinboro (Pa.) 5:00 p.m.
• Nov. 24 vs. Lewis (Ill.) 6:00 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

• Nov. 21 @ St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 3:00 p.m.

Women’s Cross Country

• Nov. 21 vs. NCAA-II National Championships @ Evansville, Ind.