Softball back on track after ‘Webb series

A weekend sweep of the Lady Bulldogs gave Liberty much-needed confidence The Lady Flames snapped an 11-game skid while visiting Gardner-Webb in Boiling Springs, N.C. Head coach Paul Wetmore’s squad swept the Lady Bulldogs, winning the first game of a Saturday double header 4-0 and the second 8-3, and completing the series Sunday with a 7-5 win. Liberty collected 11 […]

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Liberty hockey holds CFAW camp

For every college sport, changes in the roster are inevitable. Players graduate, they move to another school and some even decide to pursue another career. At the same time, the team is stock-piled again with fresh recruits, each bringing in depth and a different dimension for their teams. The Liberty Men’s Hockey team held a CFAW recruitment camp over this […]

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Editorial: Peyton was the prize, but who won?

It’s official. Peyton Manning has found a new team. On March 20, the Denver Broncos announced the quarterback as their newest member, signing him to a five-year, $96 million contract. As Denver’s former Hall-of-Fame quarterback John Elway, the team’s Vice President Football Operations, held up the orange and white jersey to signal Manning’s entrance, it was still hard for people […]

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Flames Sports Network recognized

Liberty University became officially recognized by the secular sports entertainment industry as a major player in collegiate athletic coverage when the Flames Sports Network was recently awarded two bronze Telly Awards. The awards, which were earned for FSN’s coverage of the Big South Championship football game against Stony Brook University and the weekly “Flames Sports Desk” program, are the first […]

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Ending the season on a good note

Omotola career high 22 points and key free throws late, help the Lady Flames put away the Highlanders Perhaps it was due to the 35 minute delay to the start of the game, or perhaps it was because Liberty already owned the top seed for the upcoming Big South tournament going into Friday’s contest, but Liberty did not play its […]

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Track sweeps Big South

Third consecutive double-crowning for indoor teams Another year meant another title for the Liberty Flames track and field team. The Flames recently claimed the top spot on both the men’s and women’s side at the 2012 Big South Indoor Track and Field Championships, marking the third consecutive year that both teams were crowned champions at the conference title meet. The […]

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Disc Golf team qualifies for nationals

It hasn’t taken long for coach Steve Bowman and the Liberty University disk golf team to make their mark on the sport. In their first year as an organized club team, the Flames men’s and women’s teams have already qualified for the National Tournament and Saturday, March 3, hosted a National Qualifying Tournament. The winner got an automatic bid in […]

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Women’s hockey cruise against Reston 8-2

Liberty University women’s hockey team played the Reston Raiders and defeated them 8-2. Just minutes into the first period, Liberty’s Stacy Christiaans had already put the first score on the board and lit up the board moments later with an assist from Sarah Stevenson. Keeping with the motif, Amanda Grainger scored with an assist from Autumn Kucharczk. In the midst […]

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Sports Talk: Making the jump to the FBS

Liberty University’s feasibility study analyzing the implications and requirements of jumping to an FBS program will be presented to the powers that be March 20. I really hope Liberty gets the green light to announce its intentions to court bigger conferences because, quite frankly, the Big South is feeling awfully repetitive lately. We’ll call it the Bryce Harper Phenomenon. You […]

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Snowboarding and skiing competition hits the rails

Heavy snow was falling, the temperature was far below freezing and the event was held on a slope-style course, but this was not enough to keep Liberty University’s Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding Team from qualifying for the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association nationals at last week’s Mid-Atlantic Regionals. The event was held at West Virginia’s Snowshoe Mountain Resort, […]

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