Seniors Morgan Kramerich and Dana Bowler have grown up together and are now shar­ing the spot­light for a suc­cess­ful Ferris soft­ball team.

Hailing from Lockport High School, Ill., Kramerich and Bowler’s rela­tion­ship goes back 13 years to a third grade cheer­lead­ing try­out where both would end up mak­ing the squad.

“She was my flyer and I was her base,” Bowler said. “There was a lot of trav­el­ing to games and com­pe­ti­tions in cheer­lead­ing, and that’s when we became good friends.” (more…)

Off to the Outback

Senior cen­ter Travis Oullette is not tak­ing his tal­ents to south beach. Instead, he is join­ing his brother (Brit) on the Adelaide Adrenaline over­seas in Australia. Oullette is plan­ning on stay­ing in the land down under over the sum­mer to play with his brother before join­ing an ama­teur league team in the fall. Ouellette scored 11 goals and recorded 15 assists this past sea­son, and his 26 points were good enough for sec­ond on the Bulldogs. Ouellette and his brother have played together through most of Travis’ life. (more…)

As a 5-foot-11-inch cor­ner­back that can run a 40-yard dash in 4.38 sec­onds, for­mer Ferris State foot­ball player Jamar Slade has been cruis­ing up NFL draft boards.

This past sea­son for the Bulldogs, Slade recorded 32 tack­les and five passes defended to go along with one sack in his 11 games played.

As a defen­sive back, Slade’s speed is the thing that is catch­ing the eyes of NFL scouts. (more…)

Ferris hosted its only home event of the sea­son at Top Taggart Field as the Bulldog Open kicked off in full force.

The event hosted some local com­pe­ti­tion in Lake Superior State and Grand Valley State along with some indi­vid­ual ath­letes from a vari­ety of places on April 6.

Junior David Silversmith said, “Many of us didn’t have the com­pe­ti­tion we nor­mally have, so it was cool for many of the younger play­ers and peo­ple that don’t get to travel a lot to per­form in front of their friends and fam­ily.” (more…)

Men’s ten­nis streak ends at 8

Riding an eight-game Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) win­ning streak, the Bulldogs fell for the first time all sea­son against league foe Wayne State. The Bulldogs had dom­i­nated the com­pe­ti­tion by sweep­ing all but three of their con­fer­ence matches before Wayne State came away with a 6–3 vic­tory. Wayne State went ahead early 2–1 after the dou­bles matchups before Ferris came away with two straight vic­to­ries to make the score 3–2 in favor of the Bulldogs. The Warriors would take four straight to end Ferris’ five-game over­all win­ning streak. Next on tap for Ferris is a show­down ver­sus con­fer­ence leader Northwood University. Northwood is atop the GLIAC stand­ings with a per­fect 6–0 con­fer­ence record. Ferris is 8–1 in con­fer­ence play. First serve will be April 9 at Northwood. (more…)

Crazy can’t even begin to describe the year that Ferris junior dis­tance run­ner Anna Rudd has had.

While Rudd was attend­ing a funeral ear­lier in the year, she and her fam­ily received ter­ri­ble news.

Rudd said, “We were at the funeral and you could hear sur­round­ing sirens. My friend’s dad came up to us and said ‘What are you guys doing here? Your house is on fire!’” (more…)

Men’s ten­nis remains unde­feated in conference

Rolling through GLIAC with five straight wins against the likes of Lake Superior State, Michigan Tech, Lake Erie and Walsh College, the men’s ten­nis team now sports an 11–2 record with an 8–0 con­fer­ence mark. Ferris won four out of five by sweep­ing teams, 9–0, and beat Michigan Tech 8–1 for a five-game streak. Ferris seniors Tyler Marengo, Razvan Mag and junior Otto Keresztes have led the Bulldogs to their impres­sive start. Mag and Keresztes are both unde­feated in this impres­sive run, while Marengo has lost only once dur­ing the stretch. The Bulldogs are atop the GLIAC stand­ings. Ferris trav­els to Wayne State April 3 and Northwood April 9 for the final two con­tests of the sea­son. (more…)

The race for col­lege basketball’s crown is the most excit­ing event in col­le­giate athletics.

This season’s NCAA Division I men’s bas­ket­ball tour­na­ment is poten­tially the most spread out and unpre­dictable tour­na­ment in recent memory.

The crazi­ness that will ensue on Twitter when a star­tling upset occurs and the national buzz when a Cinderella under­dog appears is just a few rea­sons why our cul­ture craves March Madness. (more…)

The sea­son came to an unfor­tu­nate end for Ferris State as it fal­tered to the Wayne State Warriors in the quar­ter­fi­nals of the GLIAC tour­na­ment by a score of 68–59.

Each team met for the third time this year March 6 at Wayne State. Wayne State was vic­to­ri­ous against the Bulldogs three times this sea­son, while nine points was the clos­est mar­gin of defeat for Ferris.

Ferris would put itself in a hole at the end of the first half as the Warriors went on an 11–4 run to extend their lead to 39–26 at half­time. (more…)

Ferris trav­eled to Allendale for the reg­u­lar sea­son finale against arch rival Grand Valley State University in the 100th game between the two rivals.
 
Unfortunately, the Bulldogs fin­ished eight points short, as GVSU stopped Ferris’ three-game win­ning streak, extin­guish­ing the Bulldogs 81–73.
 
“Our energy level was a lit­tle low; we came out a lit­tle flat in the first half and didn’t play as well as we needed to to get the vic­tory,” Ferris sopho­more point guard Dietrich Lever said. (more…)