Category: sports
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Football: Cards Demolish South Central Calhoun
October 17, 2023 Earlham football has been good for a long time. In most seasons, it isn’t uncommon for the Cards to blow out an opponent or two, so fans—and even the players and coaches—kind of expect it to happen occasionally. But the way the Cards dismantled South Central Calhoun—an…
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Football: Cards Beat Riverside
October 10, 2023 Last Friday’s game against Oakland Riverside wasn’t the best defensive performance that the Cardinal defense has had this season. The Bulldogs scored 5 touchdowns and gained 188 yards through air and 213 on the ground. But in this exciting, back-and-forth battle that the Cards won, 49-35, one…
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Volleyball: Cardinals Hold Off Wildcats
October 3, 2023 For the second match in a row, the Cardinals played a team at or near the bottom of the conference standings. Two weeks ago, the Cards didn’t play their best match ever against Panorama, but still won in straight sets. On September 26 at home against West…
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Football: Cards Crush Southwest Valley
September 19, 2023 by Quinn Weber Thirty-five points is a lot for a whole game, but the Cards did that in one quarter last Friday against Southwest Valley. The Cardinals came out firing on all cylinders in their homecoming game with 5 touchdowns in the opening frame—and only slowed down…
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Football: Cards Win Shootout with IKM-Manning
September 12, 2023 Less than a minute into the 2nd quarter last Friday, IKM-Manning had had three possessions, scoring touchdowns on two of them. The Earlham offense didn’t even have a first down yet. That might have been an indication that it just wasn’t going to be their night—but the…
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Cardinal Volleyball Gets Two Wins
September 5, 2023 Cardinals Edge I-35 The Earlham Cardinals got an exciting conference win on August 29 when they beat I-35 at home, 3-2 (25-19, 18-25, 25-11, 25-27, 15-8). Despite dropping two sets, the Cardinals clearly looked like the better team for most of the night. Perhaps winning in straight…
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Football: Cards Beat Central Decatur in Opener
August 29, 2023 The Earlham Cardinals’ defensive philosophy is bend, but don’t break. That’s what happened last Friday at home against Central Decatur—but they didn’t even bend very much. The Cardinal defense allowed just 204 total yards and got 6 takeaways in the 25-7 win. The Cardinals set the tone…
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Earlham Cardinals Fall ’23 Sports Preview
August 22, 2023 Subscribe to the Echo! 50 issues for $45. Football Coming off a season when they won just three games, the Cardinals will look to bounce back to winning ways in 2023. One way they hope to do that is with a tweak to the offense. Coach Caskey…