Stories

By Mari Pothier | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Back in St. Augustine back after playing professional basketball in Ireland, Ben De La Cruz is the new Flagler College men’s basketball assistant coach.

De La Cruz recently took on the part time position after the last assistant coach, Rob Reyes, got offered a job to play professional basketball in the Philippines.

De La Cruz, though, is not new to Flagler. He was a four year player and graduated in 2009.

By Jeffrey Howard | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse

The Flagler College women’s volleyball team immediately fell behind in its match against Florida Southern College on Sunday losing its first two sets. The Saints then rallied to win the next three sets, winning the match 3-2. (17-25, 22-25, 25-20, 28-26, 15-10)

“We did not play our best game in those first two sets,” Olivia Snipes, senior setter, said. “In the first set, I don’t know if it was nerves or excitement but we were making careless errors that ultimately caused us the first loss. In the second set, we let Florida Southern go on too many big point runs. We actually started the second game ahead by 5 or 6 points and allowed them to slowly crawl back into the game.”

By Jeremy Petty | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The Flagler College men’s soccer team will look to continue their excellent season on Tuesday, Nov. 1^st as they begin the Peachbelt Conference Tournament. As of last week, Flagler only knew that the challenger would be the team in the eighth playoff position. But after Saturday’s matches, the regular season concluded and USC Aiken emerged as Flagler’s opponent.