Louisiana Tech’s softball team will look back at the 2018 season with mixed emotions. It began with the Lady Techsters picked in preseason to win Conference USA but ended in a sputter. The Lady Techsters won 34 games, including victories over Top 25 foes Texas State, James Madison, and McNeese State, and played toe-to-toe in […]
Soccer: Record-setting season for nine seniors
Years from now, the Lady Techsters will likely look back fondly on the 2017 season, a time to remember for all the right reasons. Here are a few: A 14-3-5 record; only three losses out of 22 matches is a program record. A 6-1-3 mark in Conference USA play; only one loss out of 10 […]
Lady Techster basketball eager to crank back up in 2018
The way the Lady Techsters season ended had to make the team hungry to get back on the court. Going into the C-USA Tournament at The Star in Frisco, Texas, Tech had won five of its final six games. Down the stretch, the team had become nothing short of road warriors: in their final four […]
Bulldog basketball
A young but experienced bunch of pups In his third year as the head coach of the Dunkin’ Dogs, Eric Konkol went into the 2017-18 season with his deepest roster yet. Things got shallow quickly. The Bulldogs won their first five games of the season, including the Cancun Challenge championship in Mexico with a dramatic […]
Boston to New Orleans
Louisiana Tech running back Boston Scott came to Ruston with no scholarship, raw talent, and a dream. He earned the first, refined the second, and fulfilled the third through four years of Bulldog football and through one late-April Saturday afternoon as the senior was selected in the sixth round by the New Orleans Saints as […]
Bulldogs’ 2017 season had a ring on it
On the eve of the inaugural DXL Frisco Bowl in mid-December, a friend passed Louisiana Tech slot receiver Teddy Veal in a meeting room at the team hotel and said he hoped Santa was going to bring him a present. “I could really use a ring,” Veal said. Veal and his teammates didn’t have to […]