This will be a busy sports weekend at Chadron State College.
Both basketball teams will be opening their seasons at home Friday night while on Saturday, the Eagles' football team will host South Dakota Mines at Elliott Field with a noon kickoff, followed by a volleyball match against New Mexico Highlands at 4 p.m. and another men's basketball game at 7.
The CSC women's basketball team will launch its season by hosting College of St. Mary from Omaha at 5 p.m. Friday in the Chicoine Center. The CSC's men's team will take the court at 7 o'clock to play Texas A&M International. On Saturday night, the Eagles' men will be home again to meet Texas A&M-Kingsville, while the Lady Eagles will travel by bus all day Saturday to play Texas A&M International in Laredo at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The CSC men are expected to have an excellent team again this winter, led by
Josh Robinson and
Bryce Latimer, both All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference choices last season when the Eagles had a 19-10 record. Another of the returnees is 6-foot-7 center
Porter Anderson, who was crowned the Chadron State Homecoming King in October.
The Chadron State women's team has a new coach. He's Travis Brewster, who was head coach of the women's team at the University of North Dakota for 10 years earlier this decade. He didn't arrive in Chadron soon enough to add any new players, but has devoted lots of energy toward helping the 14 players he inherited so they can win more than just four games like occurred a year ago.
Among the returning Eagles is Shay Powers, a 5-10 junior from Longmont, Colo., who averaged 16 points and nearly seven rebounds last season when she became just the third CSC coed to make the RMAC's all-conference teams this century. Another of the Lady Eagles is
Olivia Waufle, who was the CSC Homecoming Queen this fall.
Saturday afternoon's volleyball match will wrap up the regular season for the Eagles, but they have already qualified for the RMAC playoffs that will take place next week.
After winning its opening match last week, the Chadron State wrestling team is also competing Sunday afternoon, but not at home. The Eagles' matmen will dual San Francisco State in the Bay City.
