Women’s basketball on a four-game winning streak as conference play heats up
David Chang, Staff Reporter
January 17, 2020
Over winter break, the Case Western Reserve University split games in the M-Club Tournament, which was highlighted by a 70-46 win against Juniata College. After dropping a game to John Carroll University, the Spartans have since gone on a four-game win-streak, which has included a triple-overtime vict...
Spartan wrestling rallies to beat Thiel
Gaurav Hardikar, Staff Reporter
January 17, 2020
Last Wednesday, Jan. 8, the Case Western Reserve University wrestling team snapped their 5-meet losing streak in a thrilling 27-24 home win against the Thiel College Tomcats. The Spartans opened their season on Nov. 1 to two disappointing losses in the Cleveland Clash against Cleveland State Un...
After a strong holiday season showing, men’s basketball enters conference play
Nathan Lesch, Director of Print
January 17, 2020
While most students were finishing their exams or heading home, during winter break, members of the Case Western Reserve University men’s basketball team were hustling for loose balls, setting screens and driving to the basket. The team secured three wins and one loss since the end of finals in mid-...
Cavs vs. Nets: A firsthand experience
Ishan Kulkarni, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
In a game that went down to the wire, the Cleveland Cavaliers fell to the Brooklyn Nets 108-106. The Cavaliers were coming off a close home upset six-point win against the Portland Trail Blazers. The Cavaliers were sitting in fourth place in the Central Division with a 5-11 record, while the Nets wer...
Women’s basketball team starts season with a young team
David Chang, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
A young Case Western Reserve University women’s basketball team has experienced an up-and-down start to their season. They beat Waynesburg University 96-79. The team split games at the M-Club Tournament in Alliance, Ohio, dropping the first game against 6th-ranked Hope College 80-43, then dominating ...
Second-year swimmer excited for new season
Nicholas Kamlet, Staff Reporter
November 22, 2019
Kate Ptashnik is a second-year distance free swimmer on the Case Western Reserve University swim team. With the season still young, she looks to improve on a stellar first year that featured an 18:21.88 in the 1,650 free. Swimming provides Ptashnik with countless memories, including getting punched in the f...
Wrestling faces early tests
Andrew Ford, Staff Reporter
November 22, 2019
The mats have been rolled out for another season of Spartan wrestling as Head Coach Danny Song leads the Case Western Reserve University wrestling squad into the 2019-2020 campaign. “We want to win every time out, and equally as important, we want to continue our development as tough, smart wres...
Cavaliers continue re-building effort
Ishan Kulkarni, Contributing Reporter
November 15, 2019
With a new October comes a new season of Cleveland Cavaliers basketball. Over the summer, the Cavaliers further emphasized the rebuild of the ongoing roster by picking up key rookies. With the fifth overall pick, the Cavaliers selected sharpshooting guard Darius Garland from Vanderbilt. They then adde...
NBA caught up in Cantonese storm
David Chang, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2019
To Ohio basketball fans, clips of LeBron jersey burnings seem a thing of the past, but this time his jerseys are being burned outside the U.S. Two weeks ago, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets Daryl Morey, in a now deleted tweet, expressed support for the recent Hong Kong protests, with an im...
National basketball team in shambles?
David Chang, Staff Reporter
August 30, 2019
Australia surprised the sports world by defeating the U.S. men’s basketball team for the first time ever, snapping the U.S. team’s 78 game winning streak. Prior to this loss, the U.S.’s most recent loss happened against Greece at the 2006 FIBA World Championship. Australian point guard Patty Mi...
