Category: Sports

The Lady Flames hosted Rutgers, Lehigh, James Madison and No. 23 Notre Dame for the Liberty Softball Invitational March 3-6 at the Liberty Softball Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia.  After a rocky start to the season, the Lady Flames entered the series with an impressive nine wins in their last 10 games. They also looked to expand on their program record […]

Dominating defense and selfless scoring propelled Liberty women’s basketball past Eastern Kentucky in the ASUN quarter finals March 6. A 77-58 win over EKU puts the Lady Flames in the semifinals against Jacksonville State, who beat Jacksonville University 70-56. The Colonels weren’t able to keep up with the Lady Flames’ stellar defense in Liberty Arena as Liberty held them to […]

It wasn’t meant to be tonight. Liberty basketball is not progressing to the ASUN Championship Game or the NCAA Tournament.  Bellarmine defeated Liberty 53-50 in Liberty Arena Saturday March 5.  Liberty was chasing a history – no team in ASUN history had ever won four straight conference championships. And unfortunately for the Flames, they would not be the exception. The […]

It looked like the third time was the charm for Lipscomb against Liberty in the ASUN tournament. Not quite, Liberty’s moving on.  Liberty survived and advanced. The Flames took down the Bison at home, 52-47.  Offensively, it wasn’t pretty — 17-57 from the field and 6-32 from three, the Flames looked bleak. Thankfully for them, they limited Lipscomb to 19-58 […]

Another promising day turned sour for William Byron after finishing 34th with his second straight DNF (Did not finish). While Byron led 10 laps, he wrecked out with 49 laps to go. Byron’s day started out overwhelmingly positive. He started in the seventh position and slowly worked his way towards the front throughout stage one and stage two, migrating between […]

The Lady Flames softball team opened its 2022 season at home Feb. 25-26, going 3-1 through four games after a 10-game stretch in Florida to start the season.  The Lady Flames were 5-5 going into a weekend consisting of doubleheaders both Friday and Saturday afternoon.  The team split its doubleheader Friday, defeating George Washington University 6-3 before falling to Charleston […]

Imagine planning a trip to the beach for yourself. What mode of transportation will you use to get there? Where will you stay? What’s your budget for food? Not too hard to plan, right? Now imagine, what if you had to plan a weekend trip for 160 people going to a state 800 miles away? You have to leave on […]

Shiloh Robinson is a man of few words, but his efforts on the basketball court speak volumes. Robinson has led the team’s offensive play on multiple occasions this season, emerging as a key figure in the Flames’ quest to appear in their fourth straight NCAA tournament. “He’s having an all-conference type year,” Head Coach Ritchie McKay said. “He’s really grown […]

The No. 21 Liberty baseball team continued its opening-season success with a 12-2 victory against the North Carolina A&T Aggies Feb. 23 at the Liberty Baseball Stadium for its seventh consecutive home-opener victory. In the first inning, freshman Garrett Horn welcomed the Aggies from the mound by striking out two of the first three batters, going 1-2-3 on the side. […]

Despite a valiant effort, the Lady Flames basketball team was unable to pull off a historic upset against the No. 23 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles Feb. 24, falling short 69-61 in just its third loss of the season.  Liberty entered Thursday’s matchup searching for not only the Lady Flames’ first ever program win against the FGCU Eagles, but also the […]

Liberty’s men’s basketball closed out its regular season by holding off Kennesaw State’s impressive 3-point shooting performance to secure a 100-93 overtime victory Feb. 26 in the highest scoring game in Liberty Arena history. Home to the Flames since the 2020 season, the sold-out Liberty Arena experienced an electric offensive performance in the second half and overtime. Leading the charge […]

William Byron’s day turned sour early with a 38th place finish after a lap 62 crash in the Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway Feb. 20. Despite posting the third fastest time in qualifying on Wednesday, Byron struggled in his Bluegreen Vacations Duel at Daytona race the next night, finishing 12th. That put him 23rd on the starting grid […]

With the wind tearing across the fields, the Liberty women’s lacrosse team narrowly fell 13-12 to the Richmond Spiders Feb. 19 in a nail-biting overtime finish.  The Lady Flames came into their home-opener game after a closely fought 18-13 loss to Vanderbilt. With the first draw at 1 p.m., the team took on the Spiders at home for the first […]