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Zips baseball vs. NIU
Sartaj Auija This past weekend was filled with Easter cheer. However, Akron Baseball found it rough when they were swept by Mid-Amercian Conference division rivals Northern Illinois. With the three losses, Akron falls to 4-20 overall for the season, and falls in the division to 2-4. Northern Illinois, meanwhile, improves to 8-17 on the season [...]
Don’t give up on Akron
Matthew Balsinger The 2012-2013 Akron Zips basketball season was marked with adversity, which the team was forced to overcome throughout the season. The Zips, however, fell to a final dose of adversity in the first week of the NCAA tournament, losing to Virginia Commonwealth University 88-42. Before the season began, the Zips lost senior forward [...]
Akron vs. VCU preview
Matthew Balsinger As the first round of the NCAA national championship tournament begins, there is a lot of bracket and team analysis going around the media. If you’ve had the misfortune to read any analysis on Akron and VCU, you’ll surely hear that the Zips are going to be blown out. Now, I’m not going [...]
Athletic training goes beyond stereotypes
Matthew Balsinger buchtelitesportseditor@uakron.edu Think of the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of athletic trainers. You may have an image in your head of some sport you idolize, or some dumb jocks who are just interested in working out all day while trying to sell you some sort of overpriced muscle [...]
Madness? This is AKRON!
D.J. Johnson Keith Dambrot will be making his third appearance in the NCAA tournament this week, yet never has a postseason felt this good to the Akron head coach. A convincing 65-46 MAC championship victory over the Ohio Bobcats Saturday night gave Dambrot his most gratifying win in his nine years at Akron. “This is [...]
Though NCAA may be out, light still shines on possibility of WNIT bid
Parker Perry The Akron women’s basketball team set records as well as new standards in 2013. When women’s basketball head coach Jodi Kest arrived in Akron for the 2006-2007 season, the program was not in a good place. Now, the Lady Zips are one of the up-and-coming premier programs in the Mid-American Conference, a conference [...]
Lady Zips’ historic year
Parker Perry The Akron women’s basketball team set records as well as new standards in 2013. When women’s basketball head coach Jodi Kest arrived in Akron for the 2006-2007 season, the program was not in a good place. Now, the Lady Zips are one of the up-and-coming premier programs in the Mid-American Conference, a conference [...]
Chance of the ages
Matthew Balsinger Though there are no longer regular-season games to use to rank the teams, there is the actual performance of each team in the tournament. Women’s Basketball The Lady Zips have been an exciting surprise this year, receiving the third seed in the tournament. Most basketball fans often ignore women’s basketball for the oft-covered [...]
Tournament updates: Buffalo to face Lady Zips in third round of tournament
MAC Men’s Basketball The first round of the MAC men’s basketball tournament concluded on Monday. Eighth seed Buffalo overcame nineth seed Central Michigan in a 74-72 overtime win. Buffalo moves on to the second round of the tournament to face fifth seed Ball State. Also on Monday evening, seventh seed Western Michigan defeated 10th seed [...]
Special recognition of bowling champions
Last week the Game Room in the Student Union held a campus-wide bowling championship. Many students competed, and the Buchtelite would like to extend a congratulations to the top three finalists of each division. In the women’s division, Kaleigh Bracht finished in first place overall with a three-game series score of 551. Jasmine Brown finished [...]
Updates from other Akron sports teams
Zips Softball The Lady Zips have played eight games in the month of March, and they have split those contests 4-4. This brings their overall record to 10-9 on the season. Freshman pitcher Erin Seiler was named the MAC East player of the week for compiling impressive stats in her games of the past weekend. [...]
#ThinkBigger
Matthew Balsinger On Saturday, Marla Ridenour of the Akron Beacon Journal published a rather forceful article to describe the possible impact of Alex Abreu’s actions on the Zips’ remarkable season. Ridenour is a respected voice on the Zips; however, I do not believe it is beneficial for this publication to focus on the unfortunate actions [...]
A look at the Zips tennis team
Ha’ani Summerix A congratulations is in order for our women’s tennis team on being picked in a preseason poll for the 2013 regular season title and league tournament championship. Akron earned themselves five first-place votes in the poll. They also received four tallies toward a predicted win for the league tournament championship, hosted by Ball [...]
Turmoil for the Zips
D.J. Johnson A week ago, the Akron Zips won their second consecutive conference regular season championship, securing the number one seed in MAC tournament and what looked to be a definite path into the championship game. Now, a different team without point guard Alex Abreu, the Zips head into Friday’s semifinal game coming off a [...]
Zips clinch season
Matthew Balsinger The University of Akron men’s basketball team defeated The University of Miami 72-58 Tuesday night, to clinch the MAC regular-season title. This is the second consecutive year the Zips have won the regular-season title, going into the MAC tournament next week. With the victory over Miami, the Zips have also claimed the top [...]
Last of the rankings
Matthew Balsinger This is the last power ranking for the season, as the MAC tournament will begin next week. Look next week for coverage of both men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. #12 Kent The Golden Flashes simply have not been able to produce all season. They have only won one game within the conference and [...]
Zips baseball falls to Georgia Tech
Sartaj Aujla The University of Akron baseball team was unable to bounce back after being swept by Georgia Tech last Saturday, as the team lost to Louisville over the past weekend. The Zips fell to 0-6 for the 2013 season, while Louisville improves to 5-1. After a tough weekend against Georgia Tech the previous week, [...]
Akron falls to Buffalo
D.J. Johnson Perhaps it was back-to-back road games that wore down the Akron Zips. It could have been the poor shooting performance that was too much to overcome. Or maybe Buffalo forward Javon McCrea was just that good. One thing for certain is that the nation’s longest win streak was snapped on Saturday night. McCrea [...]
From across campus
Zips Softball The University of Akron Zips softball team is off to a 5-6 start in the season. The Lady Zips are currently undefeated at home, sitting at 3-0, while being 2-6 in away games. The Zips had to cancel a game against Syracuse ealier this season due to the weather. Rachel Ratcliffe currently leads [...]
Zips recruitment update
Dante Rones The Mid-American Conference was dominated by Kent State and Northern Illinois, with both teams undefeated within the conference. Kent State went 11-3 while Northern Illinois went 12-2. The two teams met in the MAC championship which ended with Northern Illinois winning in double overtime 44-37. On the other end of conference play, Akron, [...]
