POSTSEASON RETURN: Bridgewater College's 2019 Football Season
BRIDGEWATER — After a 14-year playoff drought, if Bridgewater was going down Saturday afternoon against Delaware Valley, the Eagles were going…
It was fair to wonder if Bridgewater College would ever get back to this level.
Bridgewater College completed an undefeated regular season and clinched the school's first conference championship in 14 years, meaning there is more football to be played for the area's Division III program. The Eagles, 10-0 and ranked No. 20 in the nation, will take on Delaware Valley (9-1), the champions of the Middle Atlantic Conference.
BRIDGEWATER — Even after securing an Old Dominion Athletic Conference title and NCAA Division III playoff berth in the penultimate regular-sea…
BRIDGEWATER — For at least five decades, Carlyle Whitelow missed only a handful of Bridgewater College football games.
BRIDGEWATER — Over the past two seasons, Bridgewater College has become known for its imaginative offensive scheme and offensive coordinator S…
BRIDGEWATER — Thirteen consecutive times Bridgewater College has stepped on the football field and thirteen times the Eagles have returned to …
BRIDGEWATER — The Bridgewater College football team has accomplished quite a bit over the course of a year. The Eagles, 8-0 overall and 6-0 in…
BRIDGEWATER — Over the past few weeks, not a lot has changed in these rankings of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference football teams.
EMORY — Bridgewater College football coach Michael Clark had a long chat with Emory & Henry coach Curt Newsome two years ago.
BRIDGEWATER — Their offensive numbers are strikingly similar and equally impressive, meaning today when Bridgewater College visits Emory &…
BRIDGEWATER — In what’s been a dream season thus far for Bridgewater College, the Eagles offense is putting up more than 41 points per game wh…
For three-and-a-half seasons as Bridgewater College’s starting quarterback, Jay Scroggins was asked to manage the offense, limit mistakes and simply keep the Eagles in the game.
A week ago, Bridgewater College welcomed a Ferrum team missing its top two running backs to Jopson Athletic Complex and held the Panthers to 180 yards offense and just 1.5 yards per carry.
Sometimes this space makes a dalliance into the B-section of the newspaper — that’s sports for those of you not “in the know” — and Monday’s n…
BRIDGEWATER — All season long, Bridgewater’s offense has put its skill position players in position to make plays. Oh boy, did Trey Stephens m…
BRIDGEWATER — Heading into its homecoming game undefeated and gaining extra attention from local and national media as well as walking around …
BRIDGEWATER — Scott Lemn moved out of his cubicle inside the football wing of Nininger Hall, taking the conversation to an office where he cou…
Bridgewater College football coach Michael Clark knew at some point he would have to find out how his team would respond to trailing. Saturday…
BRIDGEWATER — Harping on turnovers in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference can begin to feel a bit like whaling away on a horse long since expired.
The Old Dominion Athletic Conference was dotted with returning 1,000-yard rushers and record-setting running backs leading their respective programs.
Through four games, Bridgewater College hasn’t just won, it’s barely been threatened.
Football coaches will talk every week about the importance of winning the turnover battle, but as the only two undefeated teams in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference meet today at Bridgewater College's Jopson Athletic Complex, it rings especially true.
The past four seasons, Old Dominion Athletic Conference opponents knew beating Shenandoah meant figuring out a way to at least slow down Hayden Bauserman.
BRIDGEWATER — Naysayers will have to dig a little deeper for reasons to knock Bridgewater College this week.
BRIDGEWATER — Deep down, Bridgewater College went into last week’s season opener against Gettysburg fairly confident it was the better team, a…
BRIDGEWATER — The only thing that stopped Bridgewater College’s Jarrod Denham Saturday night against Gettysburg was the goal line.
Saturday evening at Jopson Athletic Complex was a celebration for Bridgewater College, not just because the Eagles opened the season with an impressive 41-10 victory against Gettysburg, but also because the 2001 BC team that advanced all the way to the Division III national championship game was also in attendance.
BRIDGEWATER — With about two minutes left in the first half Saturday night at Jopson Athletic Complex, the greatest team in Bridgewater Colleg…
In recent years, Bridgewater College vs. Gettysburg has developed into a nice little non-conference, early season rivalry.
It’s increasingly rare for anyone to stay at one job for a quarter century, let alone a college football coach in an industry where families mostly assume they may have to pack up and move any given winter.
A year ago, Bridgewater College coach Michael Clark joked about his Eagles being picked to finish last in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference preseason poll.
FOREST —Randolph-Macon received eight first-place votes to grab the top spot, but Bridgewater College picked up the other first-place nod to f…
BRIDGEWATER — There’s nothing particularly profound about a football coach discussing the importance of coming out on top of the turnover margin.
Entering his 25th season as the head coach at Bridgewater College, and now the winningest active college football coach in Virginia, Michael Clark has seen enough to recognize what his Eagles have heading into their opener against Gettysburg on Sept. 7.
BRIDGEWATER — Football is starting a little later for Bridgewater College than neighboring programs such as James Madison and local high schoo…
With the 2019 football season approaching, Bridgewater College football coach Michael Clark made a change to his bio on the Eagles website.
Bridgewater College linebacker Re’Shaun Meyers was named a preseason All-American by Lindy’s and College Football American Yearbook.
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