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Andres Cuenca wins Wofford Invitational

After missing the Furman Invitational on March 23 due to injury, sophomore Andres Cuenca returned with a vengeance at the Wofford Invitational. Cuenca shot a three-round 208 to finish eight-under par and win the tournament. The win was Cuenca’s first of his career. Overall, Western Carolina would finish fifth in […]

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Western Carolina sweeps Columbia

Bring out the brooms, Western Carolina picked up their 1st series sweep of the season. After taking 2-out of-3 in every other series this year, the Catamounts finally got the monkey off their back. With the 3 wins, Western moves to 13-and-7 on the year. Columbia drops to 4-9-and-1 on […]

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Catamount sweep The Citadel

For the 2nd time this season, Western Carolina swept an opponent at home. This time around it moved Western to an even .500 in the Southern Conference at 3-and-3. With the 3 wins over the weekend of March 30th-April 1st against the Citadel, Western improved to 17-and-11 on the year. […]

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Western falls to #11 Clemson

Western Carolina’s undefeated streak against the ACC came to an end on March 28 as the Clemson Tigers took an early lead and never looked back as they knocked off the Catamounts, 15-6 in front of 4,875 fans at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. The loss drops Western […]

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College of Charleston sweeps Western

A week after picking up their 1st series sweep of the season, Western got swept in a battle of the projected top 2 teams in the conference. Two of the three games over the March 23rd-25th series were decided in the last at-bat for the home team, which resulted in […]

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Lady Catamounts make school proud with storybook season

Although their postseason was cut short in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament to Virginia Tech, the Lady Catamount basketball team has plenty of reason to be proud of the effort they put forth and of the season that they had.In the program’s 42-year history, the 2006-2007 […]

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Catamount Tennis loses two in a row, fall to 0&5 in SoCon

After losing their two opening conference matches to Davidson and Wofford, the Catamount women’s tennis team returned to action on March 24 and 25 to battle with conference foes UNC-G and Georgia Southern. The Catamounts would lose the battles to The Spartans and the Eagles. UNC-G defeated WCU 7-0, while […]

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Catamounts split double header with GWU, lose 2 of 3 to ASU

On March 21, just three days after being crowned the champions of the Best Western Catamount Classic, the Catamounts headed to Boiling Springs, NC, for a double header against Gardner-Webb. The first game of the double header would not go according to plan for Western, as they were blanked by […]

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Music Preferences are the Newest Flavors of the Week

When most students come to college, they have musical preferences they’ve picked up from back home. Indeed, favorite bands are often a local occurrence influenced by years of listening to the hometown radio stations and going to the same live concerts. But in college, many students expand their musical tastes […]

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Homosexuality in Pop-Culture

Only three decades ago, public displays of affection between two people of the same sex was considered taboo and could end in the alienation of the people involved. Today however, homosexuality and even those just being affectionate towards one another is generally accepted. There are still people who believe whole […]