Playoff run will continue after toppling JMU for the first time in 22 years The last time Liberty beat in-state foe James Madison (JMU), most of the players on both teams had not been born. Victory could not have come at a better time for the Flames, defeating the Dukes for the first time since 1992 in what was Liberty’s […]
Read moreFlames stay alive, head to Pennsylvania for second round in FCS Playoffs The Villanova Wildcats finished second in the Colonial Athletic Association Conference, which produced four of the 24 teams in this year’s Football Championship Subdvision (FCS) playoffs. They entered the tournament as the No. 6 ranked team after a 10-2 season. Villanova boasts a potent running attack and the […]
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Flames split home series against University of Delaware Hens It was a tale of two games as Liberty University’s men’s Division I (DI) hockey team split their Nov. 7-8 weekend series against the University of Delaware 1-1. After dropping the first game 6-4 despite an early three-goal lead, neither players nor coaches had much to say. “It feels a bit […]
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Wilson’s score in the 100th minute gives Flames the victory In its final regular-season match of the season Saturday, Nov. 8, it seemed as if the Liberty men’s soccer team (11-5-1, 6-3 Big South) would head into the Big South Tournament with a tie against the visiting High Point Panthers (9-7-2, 6-2-1 Big South). With 100 minutes of scoreless play […]
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Women’s soccer runs through Big South playoffs, lose in the championship The Liberty Lady Flames soccer team — the No. 1 seed in the tournament and regular-season conference champion — ended its season in disappointing fashion when it failed to defend its Big South Conference (BSC) Championship. The Lady Flames fell in a penalty-kick shootout against High Point Panthers Sunday, […]
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Rings, rings, rings. When discussing the greatness of sports legends, everything comes back to the simple question of “how many championships have they won?” This is a silly devolution of years of progress in the fields of reasoning and logic. In other words — rings do not really matter. At least, not too much. In team sports, winning a championship […]
Read moreA look at this year’s crop of men’s basketball squads 1. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers The reigning Big South tournament champions return virtually every key player from last year’s squad, setting themselves up nicely for a repeat bid. Big-time schools will envy the Chants three-man backcourt of Warren Gillis, Josh Cameron and Elijah Wilson. African-born big men Badou Diagne and Michael […]
Read more2014 team experience a year of success The 2014 Flames fall season served as a teaching tool for a young Liberty golf team. After losing five seniors from the team last year, the Flames were paced much of the year by underclassmen and newcomers to college golf. Led by its sole senior Mathieu Fenasse, Liberty continued to get better and […]
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D.J. Abnar carries the Flames to their fourth-straight victory Two games. That is all the Liberty Flames football team (7-3, 3-0 Big South) currently needs to win in order to reclaim the Big South Championship after defeating the Monmouth Hawks (5-4, 0-3 Big South), 34-24, Nov. 8. After Monmouth deferred the coin toss, Flames quarterback Josh Woodrum took the field […]
Read moreLady Flames win back-to-back titles For the second straight year, a top-10-ranked Stanford team stood between Liberty field hockey and an NCAA Tournament berth, and for the second straight year, the Lady Flames emerged victorious. Sarah Gipe scored the lone goal of the Northern Pacific (NorPac) Championship final just under four minutes into the match, deflecting Natalie Barr’s shot past […]
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By Dalton Britt Lady Flames eye a Big South title after being ousted from the 2013 tourney The Liberty women’s basketball team is used to winning. Cutting down the nets is nothing new for them. So last year, when they were knocked out of the Big South Tournament in the second round by third-seeded Winthrop, it was unusual. Head Coach […]
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By Nate Haywood Lady Flames keep their title hopes alive as they win in first playoff game The Liberty Lady Flames soccer team (13-4-1, 8-1-1 Big South) kept its Big South title hopes alive as they defeated the No. 8 seed Radford Highlanders (7-10-2, 4-5-1 Big South) 2-0 in the Big South Conference Tournament quarterfinals. Each team began with limited […]
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Baseball was my favorite sport growing up. I ate up anything related to baseball. I read anything related to baseball. I went out in the yard to throw whenever I could. As a 9-year-old, there might not have been anything I loved more. Now, as a 22-year-old, baseball, specifically Major League Baseball, has taken a backseat for me. Maybe I […]
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Student athletes spend Halloween doing charity work Each year on Oct. 31 as kids all over the Lynchburg area don costumes and head out the door to trick-or-treat, so do Liberty University student athletes. Instead of asking for candy, however, all 20 NCAA teams, including coaches and staff, knock on doors and ask their neighbors to donate canned goods on […]
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Lady Flames are proving to be the best in the Big South With a less than satisfactory 11-18 2013 season in the books, the Liberty women’s volleyball team was looking for a turnaround in 2014. Through 28 games so far, the Lady Flames have done exactly that. With nine games of Big South Conference play completed and all of nonconference […]
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