Category: 2018

(Defiance, Ohio) Early struggles result in a loss for the Yellow Jackets in a non conference game against Alma, Michigan on Tuesday, 84-69.

Defiance started off on top 10-9 against Alma until they answered the Yellow Jackets with a three pointer and went on a run with 3:59 remaining, taking it to a Scots lead, 21-16. Senior Whitney Schalk with a bucket made the score 21-18 with 2:10 to play. Junior Sam Ervin closed out the first quarter with  three, to cut the lead 25-23 Scots.

The Yellow Jackets started off scoreless for nearly four minutes in the beginning of the second period, before Lee got a 3 pointer in to end the drought with 5:57 left in the first half. Score now 35-26, Alma went on a 6-0 run over the next three minutes making the score 41-26. Senior Mekai White helped out Defiance by adding 7 points before the end of the first half cutting the lead to 41-33.

The Scots came out of the locker room charging ahead early as they got their largest lead 55-38 with 5:49 left in the third quarter. Defiance finally getting something going on the offensive side with a jumper and a three pulled them within a 10 point game, 55-45. After 3 quarters, Alma was only up by 8, with a score of 60-42 heading into the final period.

Alma continued to bring the hot shooting out on the court, once again making the lead 10 points with back to back buckets. A three from DC, with an answer from Alma with 5:34 left brought the score to 75-61. Outscoring the Jackets 24-17 in the fourth quarter, the Scots defeated the Yellow Jackets.

Sam Ervin said about the game, “We struggled to score in the second quarter and they got hot shooting. Our defense really struggled.”

Lauren Rogers and Ashley Lee both had 13 points each, and as a team the Yellow Jackets shot at 39.7% from the field and had 29 rebounds for the game, lead by Danielle Carruthers with 7 of the 29. Whitney Schalk led the team with 6 assists.

Defiance is back December 30th, as they host Adrian College in non HCAC play in the Weaner Center at 1 pm.

Written by Jessi Davis

(Defiance, OH) Our very own Defiance College Men’s Basketball Team traveled to Franklin, Indiana this past Saturday to take on the Grizzlies. Defiance was looking to turn their season around, coming into the game at 3-15, and 2-9 in conference play, against Franklin, who came in 5-13, and 4-7.

The weren’t able to start the game how they wanted, ending the first half trailing by 7. They were down by 12 at one point in the first half, but an offensive spurt helped shorten that lead to 7.

The Grizzlies came out just as strong in the second half, outscoring the Jackets 44-31. The final of this game was the Grizzlies 86, and our Yellow Jackets 66.

The Jackets were led by Trevon Grimes who had 16 points, followed by Kiuwan Graham with 14 points. Graham was also able to pull down 9 rebounds of his own, followed by Allante Wheeler with 8 more to add. The team had 6 assists total.

The Jackets also had 15 turnovers, while shooting just 34.8% from the floor. The Jackets were able to score 31 points off the bench.

After the game, we caught up with sophomore Keith McClure, who had this to say, “It was a well fought game by both teams but Franklin made more plays toward the end of the game to get the win. We just have to keep improving each day as a team and putting it all together.”

The Jackets look to turn around the season this Wednesday, at Anderson, at 7:30. If you see a member of the Men’s Basketball team, make sure that you wish them good luck, and as always, Go Jackets!

Written by Zac Bires

(Adrian, Michigan) Monday evening the Defiance College Women’s Basketball team dropped a game to Siena Heights, 84-55.

In the first quarter, Defiance took a lead with 7 straight points from Rogers, Siena answered with 2 points at the 7:18 mark, and Rogers then connected for another 3 pointer to make the score 10-2. Whitney Schalk answered a Saints run with 5 points and ended the period up, 19-18.

The Saints came out ready to go in the second quarter getting their first lead of the game, 20-19. The Yellow Jackets and the Saints went back and forth scoring before the Saints outscored Defiance in the final 2 minutes of the second quarter, to go into halftime Siena Heights up 46-37.

Siena Heights defense came out quick and fast as they held Defiance scoreless for almost 4 minutes before Ervin connected with the bucket with 5:03 left in the quarter to bring the score to 43-60. The Saints continued to dominate the third quarter finishing with a layup, the score 68-49 heading into the final quarter.

Saints quickly up 8 points in the beginning of the fourth pushed their lead 79-51 with 5:25 left on the clock. The Yellow Jackets tried to get something going in the final minutes of the game, but ended up getting defeated 84-55.

Junior Lauren Rogers led the team with 14 points and 5 rebounds, while junior Sam Ervin ended with 10 points and 6 rebounds for Defiance. Ashley Lee had 4 assists for the Yellow Jackets. As a team DCWB finished 31 for 71, 43.7%, from the floor while shooting 42.1% three pointers, 8 for 19.

Senior Whitney Schalk said this about the game; “We started out hot and played well for a while against scholarship players. But when they began building a lead we struggled to keep up”.

Written by Jessica Davis

(Anderson, Indiana)- The Defiance College Women’s Basketball team got an on the road conference win at Anderson University, 73-60.

Defiance came into the start of the game with an early 6-2 lead, but it wasn’t long until Anderson came back and ties the game 9-9 with 4:26 left in the first period. The remainder of the first period was back and forth, until it ended with a Yellow Jacket lead, 14-12.

In the second, a jumper, a steal, and layup resulted in Defiance being in the lead, 29-24. The Ravens answered back with 5 points, tying it up. The Purple and Gold came back and ended the half leading Anderson 32-30.

Back on the court after halftime, Danielle Carruthers and Kalyn Pickens combined for 6 points before the Ravens answered back with a three pointer, making the score 45-42. Finishing up the third quarter, the Yellow Jackets had a pretty good lead, 52-44.

Coming into the fourth quarter, Defiance came out ready to end the game extending their lead to 12. They built up a lead of 17 points before finally ending with a score of 73-60.

Sam Ervin finished with 22 points, while Ashley Lee and Lauren Rogers finished with 13 and 11 points. Rogers and Schalk both had 5 rebounds, and Schalk also added 10 assists.

Sam Ervin had this to say about the HCAC win. “As a team we did a good job of transitioning on offense and hard denying the ball on defense”.

(Defiance, OH) The Defiance College Women’s Basketball team is bringing in 2018 with a win over the Adrian Bulldogs, 80-65, on Saturday, December 30th in the Weaner Center.

The Yellow Jackets being 3-8 overall went out ready to go, shooting 49.2% from the field, with 13 of 25 three pointers (52.0%).

With hot shooting right out of the gates by Rogers and White, the Yellow Jackets started out on top 16-9 in the first period. In the second period they kept the momentum going with freshman Kalyn Pickens scoring back to back in the paint extending the Purple and Gold lead to 22-13. A few more scores and a couple deep buckets from Rogers and White put them up 32-15 with 3:38 left in the half. DCWBB went into halftime outscoring the Bulldogs 20-10 in the second period, and with a score of 36-19.

Adrian came out of the locker room with a spark as they went on a 6-0 run. The Bulldogs showed interest in coming back as they slowly crept back into the game cutting the deficit to 38-29 with 7:45 left to play in the third. DC answered with a few scores and a three from Schalk to push the lead back up 49-36. Rogers hitting back to back threes led the Yellow Jackets to a hefty 64-43 lead heading into the last period.

The Yellow Jackets continued to shoot the lights out into the final period as Rogers nailed her fourth three pointer of the day with 6:53 remaining and the score at 70-51. Adrian tried to get an offense going in the fourth but it was too late, as Defiance takes the non conference win, 80-65.

Lauren Rogers led both teams with a career high and game high of 20 points, while senior Mekai White added 13. Sam Ervin with 6 rebounds, and Whitney Schalk with a game high of 12 assists.

Senior Mekai White has this to say, “This was a time where the team realized that playing together will get you through anything.”

Written by Jessica Davis

(Defiance, Ohio) The Defiance College Women’s Basketball team fell to the Franklin Grizzlies on Saturday, December 9th in the Karl H. Weaner Center, 73-61. Starting off slow put them in a hole for the rest of the game.

As the Grizzlies took an early lead in the first half, 6-0, the Yellow Jackets were down early. Defiance slowly came back to put the score within 2, 10-8, with 4:14 left in the first quarter. The Franklin Grizzly offense kept pushing and went on another run, this time 8-4. This brought the score to 18-12, Grizzlies ahead at the .

Franklin came out on fire after the first quarter quickly picking up an even bigger lead 29-16 with 6:16 left on the clock in the second period. A few minutes later, the Yellow Jackets looked to cut the lead down when they brought it to 31-19. A Franklin turnover and a recover by Rogers brought the game to 35-21. The teams went into the locker room for halftime with a score of 35-21, Franklin up.

The Grizzlies came out of the locker room with hot shooting as they went on yet another run in the third quarter before Rogers sank a deep shot to put an end to it. The Yellow Jackets were then within 14 points with the score being 41-27 with 8:27 left in the third. Back to back jumpers from Franklin kept them in the lead a good amount as the Defiance College Women struggled to get an offense going. The third quarter ended with a score of 56-41.

The Yellow Jackets went off in the fourth quarter with an 8-0 run over a span of 2 minutes to cut the score within 8 points, 59-51 with 7:06 left in the game! The Grizzlies went off on one more run to end the game with a score of 73-61.

Sam Ervin said, following the game, “We struggled to take care of the ball, we had 21 turnovers. We beat ourselves.”

Lauren Rogers, Whitney Schalk, and Shelby Stamm all ended with double figures while Sam Ervin led both teams in rebounds with 9. Whitney Schalk also had 4 assists.

The Defiance College Yellow Jackets dropped a game in HCAC play to Hanover College on Saturday. The final score was 92-62.

Hanover took the lead right out of the gates starting off 10-4 in the first two minutes of the contest. Defiance tried to get it together late in the first quarter with a 3 point bucket by Ervin, but the Panther defense held the Yellow Jackets to score no more points in the quarter, heading into the second with a score of 19-7.

Both teams had a tough time finding the basket in the beginning of the second quarter but back to back Yellow Jacket buckets cut the lead to 21-13. The Panthers, going on another run, set the score to 40-22 at the half.

Hanover defense came out ready to go in the third quarter as they held the Yellow Jackets with no score for the first 4 minutes before Rogers got a jumper in and the score was then 52-24 with 6:34 left in the third. Hanover went off again to extend the lead 70-37 as time expired on the clock.

The Yellow Jacket offense showed sign of being alive in the beginning of the fourth quarter with a few needed buckets. The Panthers held them off and as the clock ran down to 0, they captured the win 92-62.

Leading for Defiance is Sam Ervin with 19 points and 7 rebounds, Lauren Rogers with 12 points, and Mekai White with 11 points. Whitney Schalk also ended the game with 5 assists.

Mekai White said for a piece of advice, “Don’t play against yourselves, play against your opponent.”

Written by Jessica Davis