The Daily Eastern News staff won 34 awards at the Illinois Collegiate Press Association this past weekend in Chicago. The staff beat its previous record of 28 awards set at last year’s ICPA in both first and second placings. The contest is divided up by school size and were judged by a panel of around.
Eastern’s senior pitcher Olivia Price is coming off a year where she won the Ohio Valley Conference female player of the year award and the OVC pitcher of the year award. Price also notched a selection to the OVC first team and won the OVC Championship to help the Panthers secure a spot in the.
Eastern athletics has long since been showing support for those who have been diagnosed with various cancers, but this time it has hit home. One of Eastern’s women’s soccer players, Morgan Goodman, has been actively trying to gain support for her hometown friend, Ethan Derzay, who was recently diagnosed with NUT (nuclear protein in testis).
The Eastern Illinois softball team lost its first game of its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Regional Tournament 2-0 to #15 Northwestern Friday afternoon. The tournament is double-elimination, therefore, the Panthers will be back in action tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. to take on Miami (Ohio). The Wildcats crossed the plate first in the first inning.
“Bring us our rings!” That is what the Eastern Illinois softball team was screaming post-win after it clutched the program’s first ever OVC Softball Championship title win Saturday in Oxford, Ala. The Panthers clinched the title with 2-0 win over the SIUE Cougars, with RBI’s from Jaylen Prichard and Amber Cieplinski. Freshman of the Year.