In their first ever game out west, Mercer Lacrosse was not ready for the altitude of either the playing field or their opposing team’s ability. A 20-4 loss was not the ideal result for the Bears, especially after the opening quarter saw Air Force take a 8-2 lead that stunned the young team. “I ...
I’m going to be honest; I really couldn’t get into golf besides being a Tiger groupie for a long time. I felt it boring and a bit of a drag, making me wince whenever I would walk into a room with golf on. I really couldn’t stand the atmosphere, and to me, it didn’t feel like it could keep ...
The Mercer men’s golf team rebounded from a disappointing showing at the Linger Longer Invitational, an event that they co-hosted with Kennesaw State University at Great Waters Golf Course in Eatonton, with a stellar performance at the Irish Creek Invitational at Irish Creek Golf Course in Kannapolis, ...
The Mercer sand volleyball team booked the program’s first victory on Saturday, topping Tulane 3-2 at the Mercer sand volleyball complex. The Bears’ win moved the team to 1-5 on the year while Tulane fell to 1-7. Mercer won in a highly contested first flight competetion, as the No. 1 duo of Cassie ...
The Mercer Bears’ 15th Division I sport, sand volleyball, began play on March 21 with a home match against the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Albeit losing, the Bears played a heated contest before a few road matches in Charleston, S.C. on March 23-25. The Bears have opened their inaugural season ...
The Mercer men’s lacrosse team had three key matchups in the past few weeks, with the first being against Manhattan. The team held a visiting Manhattan squad scoreless the entire second half of the game, but in the end failed to overcome a six-goal halftime deficit and lost 8-6 at Bear Field. Mercer ...
With the grueling 162-game season and the agonizingly long MLB postseason, four lucky teams will play yet another game in pursuit of a championship title. Put into effect as of this upcoming 2012 season, one wildcard team will be added to each league with a one-game playoff pending their participation ...
The Mercer men’s and women’s cross country teams competed recently at the Georgia Intercollegiate Invitational picking several individual accomplishments from some of the Bears’ top runners. In the women’s races, junior Kacie Niemann broke her own Mercer record in the 5K, and won the race which ...
After losing the back end of a doubleheader split on the road against Georgia State, Mercer softball found themselves still one game looking up at .500. The Bears returned home for a brief stint as they hit a stretch of seven games in six days. Ga. Southern 2, Mercer 3 With a sixth-inning come-from-behind ...
The Mercer Bears’ softball team is doing quite well as of late behind some stellar play from Bears all over the diamond. However, the Bears have begun to rely on freshman Jessica Holsinger for some pitching magic every time she gets on the mound. The Bears are currently at 19-13, but without Holsinger’s ...
After the disappointing finish to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, a game in which the United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) got up 2-0 over Mexico, but would go on to lose 2-4, the United States Soccer Federation relieved coach Bob Bradley of his duties. In his place, they hired Jürgen Klinsmann ...
The Mercer men’s tennis team recently opened conference play in the Atlantic Sun with a trip to Florida to play Florida Gulf Coast University and Stetson University, before returning to Macon to face Belmont and Lipscomb. Mercer 3, FGCU 4 The Bears took the double point from the Eagles with a 2-1 ...
The Mercer men’s golf team is coming off of their best performance of the season, finishing fourth at the Seminole Intercollegiate at Southwood Golf Course in Tallahassee, Fla. On Mar. 24-25, they co-hosted the Linger Longer Invitational at Great Waters Golf Course in Eatonton, with Kennesaw State ...
The Mercer Bears are one of the hottest teams in the country at the moment, finding themselves still playing basketball this late in March. Now with a record of 26-11, the Mercer Bears have set school records in games played (38) and games won, with a chance to extend the games won title with the ...
Any student support that Mercer had was completely destroyed with the stunning upset that Florida Gulf Coast pulled off in the Atlantic Sun semifinals. It’s one thing to have a small band of students, no Hooligans, that are at every game and cheering on their guys in orange and black. That small ...
After a historic 10-1 start to the 2012 season, the Mercer baseball team has begun to show signs of inconsistency in all aspects of the game. Fresh off their drubbing of Georgia State, the Bears would lose two of three against the disappointing KSU Owls, easily handle the Rattlers of Florida A&M ...
On March 6, Mercer Wrestling traveled to Daytona, Fla., for the National Collegiate Wrestling Association’s national competition. For the second year in a row, Derek Wojcik and Charlie Farr earned all-American status. Last year, Charlie took seventh place at the 285-lb weight class. This year, he ...
On Feb. 22, Mercer Athletic Director Jim Cole announced that former Georgia Southwestern head coach, Tony Economopoulos, will take over as the sixth women’s soccer head coach in program history, effective immediately. Since Dec. 8, the Athletic Department has been searching for a replacement ...
After winning five of six games to round out the month of February, softball played .500 ball with a 4-4 record in their following eight games. Mercer began the month with four games at the University of Georgia tournament. Their contest scheduled against Cleveland State was cancelled due to rain. Mercer ...
After another rough season that saw the Mercer Bears miss out on the 2012 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Women’s Basketball Championship, the Bears strung together back-to-back solid outings to win their last two games of the year. As a result, the Bears finished at 6-23 overall and 4-14 in the ...
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