The Catamount Volleyball team is struggling this season to produce wins and have fallen to ninth place in the Southern Conference with a conference record of 3&12. After sweeping the Wofford Terriers 3-0 on Oct. 14, the Cats lost four consecutive games to Furman, Chattanooga, UNC-Greensboro, and Elon. In the […]
Day: November 10, 2006
Flags of our Fathers: Not your typical war film
4.5 stars out of 5 When I first heard about Flags of our Fathers, I was very skeptical that this was going to be a typical war film like Saving Private Ryan and Windtalkers. Then I heard that the movie was co-directed by Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg, and it […]
Catamounts drop a pair of 1-goal matches
Losing a match by one goal can hurt, but losing back-to-back one goal games, can make a team sick. That was the case with the Western Carolina soccer team as they dropped a pair of Southern Conference games, each by a goal apiece including a match that went to double […]
Catamounts finish eighth and 11th in meet
The Western Carolina cross country teams competed in the Blue Ridge Open at the newly-christened Don Kennedy Trails on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone. The women seeded eighth out of 10 teams, while the men came in 11th out of 14 teams. The women’s team finished 14 […]
Lady Catamounts look forward to busy season
Two seasons ago the Catamount women’s basketball team excelled in the SoCon Tournament and took home the Tournament Championship, and earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament. This season, Kellie Harper and her Lady Cats are back looking to bring that same magic back to Cullowhee. On Nov. 10, the […]
Catamount soccer picks up big wins
The Lady Catamount soccer team has been on a roll as of late, and that continued in their two victories over the weekend of October 5-8 as they scored a combined total of nine goals, while allowing only two. With the wins, Western improves to 7-5-2 overall and 3-1-1 in […]
Western loses seventh straight game in 21-0 shutout at Liberty
The Western Carolina Catamount’s football season got even worse on Nov. 4. WCU traveled to Liberty in what was supposed to be a winnable game at the beginning of the season but instead was a shutout 21-0. The Liberty Flames scored in the first, second, and third quarter to easily […]
Fowkes named SoCon Player of the week
The week of October 3 was a great week for Freshman Shannon Fowkes. She started off with two goals against the Appalachian State Mountaineers, including a game-winner. Later that week she scored her third collegiate goal against the Citadel Bulldogs as she led the Lady Catamounts (7-5-2, 3-1-1 SoCon) to […]
WCU Men’s basketball picked to finish 5th in SoCon North by media
In the media polls for the upcoming basketball season, the WCU men’s basketball team was picked to finish last in the SoCon North. The Cats received only 14 votes. They had zero players on the preseason all-conference teams. While the media is not very hyped about the Catamount’s chances for […]
Western upset by Elon, 37-19
Since Elon joined the Southern Conference in 2003, Western Carolina had not lost a game to them. That was three straight wins over the Phoenix and four straight overall including a game in 1998. Those statistics were thrown out the window on Oct. 7, when the Phoenix upset the Catamounts […]