The Liberty University Flames honored their seniors and outscored the Clemson Tigers 14-8 on a spring day that concluded the Flames’ season on their home field. Leading the team was senior midfielder Keaton Mohs with a hat trick and one assist. Mohs was not alone in his success against the Tigers. Junior midfielder Will Geary, senior attacker Braden Landry, freshman […]
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The Liberty University women’s basketball team culminated an explosive season with a deep run in the Conference USA Championships, making it to the finals March 16 but falling short to the top-seeded Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in a 67-51 defeat. “We wish (Middle Tennessee) nothing but the best as they go into the NCAA tournament,” Lady Flames Head Coach Carey […]
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Randy Tschetter, a beloved member of Liberty University, retired March 9 in Liberty Arena after working for 45 years as the scorekeeper for Flames basketball. Tschetter joined the Flames in 1980 when Kevin Keys asked him to keep the clock for the Flames. Two years later, he started keeping scorebook and had been doing it until this month. One morning […]
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Fresh off a dominant win against Richmond, the No. 57 Liberty University men’s tennis team looked to continue its winning streak against No. 68 William & Mary on its home court. Fans piled into the stands and cheered on the Flames in the opening doubles, and those same stands erupted as the Flames came back to win against William & […]
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The Liberty University men’s and women’s wrestling teams competed in the NCWA National Championships last week during Liberty’s spring break in Bossier City, Louisiana, where they both put together strong performances that led to a runner-up finish for the men’s team and a ninth place result out of 35 for the women’s team. “I thought we wrestled very well as […]
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The Liberty University women’s tennis team keeps rolling, bringing home another win in its battle with George Washington University March 24. The team started off strong with powerful serves from all three courts and continued into the game with emphatic attacks and speedy returns. The Flames dominated the doubles with freshman Sadie Daavettila and senior Esther Lovato bringing home […]
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Liberty University’s men’s lacrosse team fell to the visiting Chapman Panthers Saturday night in Lynchburg 11-8. The Flames dropped to a record of 8-4 with the loss, while the fifth-ranked Panthers improved to 8-2. Sophomore attacker Dante DeCollibus led the way for Chapman with three goals. For Liberty, senior midfielder Keaton Mohs tallied three goals and two assists, raising […]
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The Liberty University men’s basketball team made its first appearance in the Conference USA tournament as the No. 4 seed, but its run was cut short as the team fell to the No. 6 UTEP Miners 66-57 in the quarterfinal round. The gut-wrenching loss brought the Flames’ season to an end with an 18-14 record. Liberty’s last meeting with the […]
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In the last few weeks, seven different Liberty teams were eliminated from their postseasons in heartbreaking fashion, including men’s and women’s hoops, men’s Division I, II and III hockey, and women’s Division I and II hockey. For this week’s column, I’m going to hand out end-of-season grades for each of those seven units on the normal A through F scale, […]
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Since 2017, the Liberty Lady Flames have been the team celebrating center ice with the ACHA National Tournament trophy. The run has been one of the most stellar in Liberty Club Sports history, with pure domination over their field of competitors. The streak, however, came to a tortuous end March 16, as the Lady Flames fell to the Minot State […]
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The Lady Flames Division 1 hockey team began its tournament run with a 3-2 overtime victory over the No.10 ASU Sun Devils. The Flames entered the postseason as the No. 1 seed in the ACHA Women’s Division 1 bracket, and with the win are just two victories away from hoisting the ACHA National Championship trophy for the sixth time running. […]
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On March 20, 2023, the Lady Flames set in motion an unforgettable come-from-behind win in the ACHA Semifinal round, recovering from a 4-1 deficit to take the game 5-4 and move on to the national title game. In the process, however, the team lost one of its leaders. Senior Carly Glover suffered an ACL tear midway through the game, causing […]
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The D2 Lady Flames’ trip to the ACHA National Tournament was the first time in four years the team clinched a berth to play postseason hockey. Liberty hopped on a bus to St. Louis full of anticipation for the electric atmosphere that comes with playing in nationals. While the Flames fell to Providence in the first round of pool play […]
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After a back-and-forth game that coaches and players called the “true national championship,” the Flames men’s D2 team fell in overtime to the Lindenwood Lions. The 4-3 loss was the Flames’ final game of pool play and would decide who would exit the pool victorious and advance to the ACHA Nationals Semi-Finals. With the loss, the Flames’ 2023-24 season has […]
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Yesterday’s stirring 4-3 battle with the Providence Argonauts was the Liberty men’s D2 hockey team’s first taste of adversity in this year’s ACHA National Tournament. Well aware of the resilience it takes to come away with postseason wins, the team returned to the Centene Ice Center for round two against Army March 12, initially falling behind before doing the same […]
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