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Lake Forest Rallies Past Monmouth with Two Late Touchdowns
The Monmouth College football team led 28-21 with two minutes to play but ultimately lost 35-28 in a de facto Midwest Conference championship game at Lake Forest on Saturday. The Foresters clinched the MWC title and NCAA automatic qualifier with the wi...
Nov 9, 2024, 6:21pm EST
Monmouth College to host Chamber Winds, organ concert on Nov. 10
Monmouth College's Chamber Choir will be the featured ensemble at a concert on campus that will also include smaller performance groups and selections on the Ardell Organ. Free and open to the public, the concert will be held at 3 p.m. Nov. 10 in the...
Nov 7, 2024, 4:38pm EST
Monmouth College's Robin Johnson, students weigh in on Trump's win over Harris
Was the result of the 2024 presidential election a surprise? It depends on who you ask. "It was a clear and convincing message from the American people against the Biden/Harris administration," said Monmouth College political science faculty member R...
Nov 6, 2024, 3:44pm EST
Victory over Webster Gives Scots a 5-Match Win Streak
The Monmouth College volleyball team played their final non-conference match of the season winning at Webster 3-1 (25-10, 34-32, 22-25, 25-12) on Tuesday night. The Fighting Scots (19-9, 6-1) finish the regular season on Saturday at Grinnell, a possibl...
Nov 5, 2024, 9:59pm EST
Tate, McLarty, Stewart Win Races as Scots Take Second in Pool
The Monmouth College men's and women's swim teams both finished second at the 3-team Monmouth Invite on Saturday at Pepper Natatorium. The men scored 61 points, 36 behind Grinnell and 33 ahead of Illinois College. The women scored 51 points, six ahead ...
Nov 2, 2024, 10:06pm EDT
Plumley Earns All-Conference Honors as Nine Scots Set PRs at MWC Meet
The Monmouth College cross country teams both finished in sixth place the Midwest Conference Championships on Saturday in Appleton, Wisconsin. Senior WIlliam Plumley (Geneseo, Illinois) earned Monmouth's first All-Conference selection since 2021 with a...
Nov 2, 2024, 9:41pm EDT
Scots Celebrate Senior Day with 56-13 Win over Ripon
The Monmouth College football team honored a group of successful seniors on Saturday with a 56-13 Midwest Conference win over Ripon College in the regular-season home finale. The Fighting Scots (7-1, 7-0) scored 49 points in a row as seniors Cody Szelc...
Nov 2, 2024, 9:12pm EDT
Strom defends her Top Advocate title in Monmouth College's moot court competition
Two of the three judges weren't "real," and the four student participants weren't lawyers - at least not yet - but a court case was argued Oct. 29 in Monmouth College's Hewes Library. And after the petitioners and the respondents had made their statem...
Nov 1, 2024, 5:13pm EDT
Smash a squash: Bring your pumpkins to Monmouth College's farm on Nov. 9
Wait! Stop! Don't throw away that pumpkin! The good folks at the Monmouth College Educational Farm would like to have them, and there are several reasons for their plea to bring them pumpkins at 10 a.m. Nov. 9. Chief among those, said Monmouth biolog...
Oct 31, 2024, 1:35pm EDT
Volleyball Sweeps Knox, Clinches MWC Tournament Berth
The Monmouth College volleyball team clinched a berth in the Midwest Conference Tournament with a 3-0 sweep (25-10, 25-18, 25-17) at Knox on Wednesday night. The Fighting Scots (18-9, 6-1) are assured of finishing no worse than third in the regular sea...
Oct 31, 2024, 12:07am EDT