GWU Baseball Falls on Sunday, Wins Series
By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter Despite winning the first two games of a weekend series with Radford, Gardner-Webb looked sluggish through the first eight innings on Sunday during a 10-4 defeat. The loss snapped a five-game winning streak within conference play for the Runnin’ Bulldogs. With winning the series, Gardner-Webb (27-22, 9-9 Big South Conference) moves [...]
GWU Baseball Sweeps VMI in Weekend Series
By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter Prior to this weekend’s series with Virginia Military Institute, Gardner-Webb had yet to win a series within conference play. However, the Runnin’ Bulldogs changed all that as they emphatically swept the Keydets after a 6-4 victory on Sunday. “We came into this series thinking one game at a time,” said [...]
GWU Softball Wins Doubleheader Against Presbyterian College
By: Marcus McCoy and Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporters Gardner-Webb’s softball swept Presbyterian College on Wednesday, winning the first game 7-1 and the second end of the doubleheader with a 3-2 victory. The Runnin’ Bulldogs (24-24, 10-8 Big South Conference) head into the final regular season series this weekend at Radford with an conference tournament seeding [...]
Baseball Defeats Aggies, Presidential Candidate Throws First Pitch
By: Steve DeMillio gwu-today.com Reporter Before Gardner-Webb defeated North Carolina A&T 10-7, former Speaker of the House and 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Gingrich showed decent form with a pitch that made it over the plate, but may have been a little too low to be called a strike. [...]
GWU Softball Loses Sunday, Wins Weekend Series
By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter After winning both games in a crucial doubleheader on Saturday, Gardner-Webb failed to maintain the momentum as they fell victims to an 8-1 defeat against Charleston Southern on Sunday. As a result of winning the series, the Runnin’ Bulldogs (22-24, 8-8 Big South Conference) improve to a .500 record in [...]
GWU Rallies past Western Carolina
By: Steve DeMillio gwu-today.com Reporter After falling behind 4-0 early against Western Carolina, Gardner-Webb battled back scoring six straight runs on their way to a 6-4 victory. The Catamounts jumped on Runnin’ Bulldogs starter Andrew Barnett early when leadoff hitter Aaron Attaway took the first pitch of the game deep over the fence in left. Western Carolina picked up [...]
Men’s Soccer Suffers Loss to Coastal Carolina
By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com Reporter The Gardner-Webb men’s tennis team played their final regular season match on Sunday against Big South Conference opponent Coastal Carolina. Despite their efforts the Runnin’ Bulldogs suffered a loss to the Chanticleers by a margin of 5-2. The Runnin’ Bulldogs were lead by freshman, Joao Poli, as he got Gardner-Webb on [...]
Gardner-Webb splits doubleheader with UNC Charlotte 49ers
By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com Reporter The Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs split a twin bill against the UNC-Charlotte 49ers Wednesday afternoon at home winning the first game 2-0 and losing the second 8-5. Game One Redshirt sophomore Morgan Baker’s two-run home run gave Gardner-Webb the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning to end up with [...]
GWU’s Wrestling Coach Richard Wince Retires
By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter While Richard Wince initially grew up in Ohio, the prestigious wrestling coach has found his home in Lattimore, N.C. for the past 22 years while serving in Gardner-Webb’s wrestling program. This past week, Wince, who was the head coach for 20 years, announced his retirement. “Ecclesiastes says there is a [...]
Baseball falls to Winthrop Eagles
By: Steve DeMilio gwu-today.com Reporter The Runnin’ Bulldogs fell 5-3 in the rubber match of their weekend series against the Winthrop Eagles Sunday afternoon at John Henry Moss Stadium. The Eagles out hit the Bulldogs 14-7, but the Bulldogs were able to keep pace throughout the game with timely hitting and great defense. The Eagles [...]
The Runnin’ Bulldogs fall to Liberty 7-5 Sunday afternoon
By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com Reporter After a long rainy afternoon at Varsity Field in Boiling Springs, the Runnin’ Bulldogs softball team fell victim to a seventh-inning comeback by Liberty during a 7-5 defeat on Sunday. Gardner-Webb drops to 13-18 overall and 0-3 in Big South play. With sweeping Gardner-Webb this weekend, Liberty has now won [...]
Football Spring Scrimmage
Video by: Lyndon Borders gwu-today.com Multimedia Reporter
GWU softball splits doubleheader with UNC-Greensboro
By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com reporter On a rainy Thursday afternoon in Boiling Springs, the Gardner-Webb University softball team faced off against the Spartans of UNC-Greensboro in a doubleheader. The Runnin’ Bulldogs were able to bounce back after an 11-1 loss during the first game to defeat the Spartans in game two by a score of [...]
GWU rallies past USC-Upstate to win in extra innings
By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com reporter On Wednesday, Gardner-Webb’s Runnin’ Bulldogs defeated visiting USC-Upstate 6-5 in 10 innings. The Runnin’ Bulldogs got off to an early start with a homerun by Dusty Quattlebaum in the first inning to score Benji Jackson, giving Gardner-Webb a 2-0 lead. USC-Upstate would respond by scoring four runs over four innings [...]
Women’s Basketball vs. Campbell
Video by: Lyndon Borders and Bethany Wright gwu-today.com Multimedia Reporters
Baseball vs. Valparaiso University
By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com reporter The Runnin’ Bulldogs baseball team picked up their second win in a row Saturday afternoon at home over Valparaiso University winning 2-1. The Crusaders had recently come off a 10-9 win over No. 4 ranked Arkansas only to be defeated by starting pitcher Conner Scarborough and the rest of the [...]
Women’s Tennis vs. UAB
By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com reporter The Gardner-Webb University women’s tennis team faced off against UAB Satruday at home. The Running’ Bulldogs defeated the Blazers by a margin of 5-2. The Running’ Bulldogs were lead by freshman Alice Hopkins as she won her sixth consecutive match against the Blazers’ Paula Alvarez 6-2, 6-0 at the singles [...]
Baseball vs. Air Force
By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com reporter The Runnin’ Bulldogs baseball team picked up an 8-2 win Friday night over the Air Force at John Henry Moss Stadium to push the record up 6-3. Stand-out starter, Brock Wilson, allowed just two hits in a little over 6 innings to strike out three and walk three. The Big [...]
Men’s Tennis vs Winthrop
By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com Reporter The Gardner-Webb men’s tennis team came away with a 5-2 win Tuesday afternoon on their home court over the Winthrop Terriers. The Runnin’ Bulldogs (0-1 Big South) needed to win a number one or number three spot in the doubles matches in order to take the lead. After Freshman Ernest Alberch [...]
Runnin’ Bulldogs fall in play-in game
By Adam Barnes gwu-today.com staff reporter After failing to find any sense of rhythm offensively, Gardner-Webb saw their season end on a sour note Monday by losing at High Point 68-58 in a play-in game for the Big South Conference Tournament. High Point ran an effective 2-3 zone defensively, and the Runnin’ Bulldogs were relegated [...]
Men’s Baseball vs. La Salle
By Adam Barnes GWU-Today.com Reporter After dropping two consecutive games earlier this week, Gardner-Webb rounded out the weekend with an explosive 9-3 victory over La Salle on Sunday at Boiling Springs, the team’s second victory in as many days. The Runnin’ Bulldogs scored early and often as they collected a season-high 13 hits, including seven [...]
Men’s Basketball vs Presbyterian Recap
By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter Entering Saturday’s game, Gardner-Webb was already locked into the ninth seed in the upcoming Big South Tournament, but with a 68-62 loss to visiting Presbyterian College, the Runnin’ Bulldogs have stumbled into the conference tournament. The loss is the second of the week, as Gardner-Webb also lost a road game [...]
Softball victory over NC A&T
By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com Reporter Gardner-Webb University lady bulldogs displayed two impressive wins Tuesday evening hosting NC A&T in a double header. In the first matchup it wasn’t until the top of the 3rd before the first run was scored, making the score 1-0 in Gardner-Webb’s favor. The next key moment of game would be [...]
Women’s Basketball vs UNCA
By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com Reporter Gardner-Webb University lady bulldogs added another win on the season with Saturday evening’s performance against UNC Ashville. The lady bulldogs were slow to start the first half, but it didn’t take long before they found their rhythm. By the end of the first half GWU was up 35-25. After a [...]
