Category: Sports

It was a sunny day with a light breeze when the Flames kicked off their field hockey game against Georgetown on Saturday, Oct. 13. With 382 fans in attendance on Family Weekend, the comfortable 66-degree weather matched the intensity of the field hockey players, as they did not play high energy or enthusiasm. “Energy is one of the things that, […]

It’s everyone’s worst athletic nightmare: a sports injury. Sports injuries are defined as “injuries that occur during exercise or while participating in a sport,” according to Healthline Media. This can include anything from a bruised knee to a torn ACL. And, most often, a sports injury is something minor that doesn’t require too much time off.  But for some, it […]

As Liberty Men’s Hockey Team took the ice Friday, Oct. 12, it was more than just the cold in the air, but rather competition fill the rink as the Flames play Syracuse University. Liberty lost to Syracuse in overtime by one point, making the end of that first game 4-5.  Through this close game, the Flames kept up with Syracuse.  […]

With 2:23 remaining in the fourth quarter the Williams stadium crowd held its breath, watching as Buckshot Calvert caught the snap from shotgun and threw a fade pass to the tightly covered BJ Farrow in the back of the endzone. The crowd came to its feet in applause as the official lifted both arms vertically signaling a Liberty touchdown. The […]

Huddled around their coach, the Liberty University Lady Flames were staying cool in the deciding set of a back-and-forth battle with a quality opponent. Junior right-side hitter Casey Goodwin, who finished with a team-high 19 kills, had just slammed a volleyball off blockers’ hands for what was initially ruled Liberty’s first point of set five.  But the call of the […]

He stood quietly, watching the New Mexico State sideline erupt in applause as the Aggies celebrated a win that had earlier on in the contest been the Flames to lose. The New Mexico State loss was an unexpected loss while the victory over Troy on Saturday, Oct. 13 was an unexpected victory. At 3-3, the Turner Gill-led Flames have had […]

Let’s get away from football this week. It seems like everything sports from August until February is somehow centered around college football or the NFL, so here’s your break from the football media circus. Instead of thinking about the big upset last weekend or whether Buckshot is actually injured, think about the simpler times. The times when you only liked […]

Liberty University has provided not one but two disc golf courses for students and non-students to utilize. Coach Steve Bowman has been with Liberty since the beginning of the disc golf program seven years ago when he designed the first Liberty course. “I built both of the courses here at liberty, both the Hideaway course and the East campus course,” […]

There was one minute, 45 seconds left in the game when the play-by-play announcer for Liberty field hockey called for SportsCenter to put the following play on the top-10 plays. Liberty and Virginia were tied at two. Junior defenseman Mallory Fortenbaugh passed the ball to senior midfielder Agueda Moroni from the corner. Moroni took the shot, which looked too far […]

Star Flames wide receiver Antonio Gandy-Golden demolished any discussion of the Flames suffering from jetlag with his record setting 245-receiving-yard performance that silenced the New Mexico Lobos and headlined the Flames 52-43 victory Saturday, September 29. Flames junior quarterback Buckshot Calvert silenced critics by dissecting the Lobos defense, throwing for 417 yards and three touchdown passes on 24 completions. Following […]

When the word concussion is said, many automatically think of football, a sport saturated with head injuries. However, concussions are prevalent in lacrosse as well.   As more concussion research unveils, coaches across the world are realizing that some of their players may have concussions.  Concussions may look different in lacrosse, because it is not a collision sport but a […]