A slow start for the Wilkes University Lady Colonels women’s lacrosse team came back to bite them in their first loss of the season to FDU-Florham, 16-13. FDU-Florham got on the board quickly by scoring three goals in the first five minutes of the off to create a 3-0 margin. Wilkes responded quickly by adding […]

Lady Colonels see their perfect season come to an end at the hands of FDU Devils. The Wilkes University women’s lacrosse team was handed its first defeat of the season on Wednesday, April 9, courtesy of the FDU-Florham Devils. With the loss, Wilkes’ record 9-0 start is snapped and the Lady Colonels fall to 9-1 […]

Cracked writer Daniel O’Brien really likes presidents. This is not an exaggeration. Besides being a comedian, he has also been a consultant for the history channel and an author. As a person who loves history just a little bit too much to be considered normal, I picked up the book as soon as I saw […]

Meet Ashley Eden, a freshman pitcher and outfielder for the softball team here at Wilkes. Eden is from Fogelsville, Pa., where she attended Northwestern Lehigh High School. She will be majoring in Pharmacy and is looking forward to her time at Wilkes.  How long have you been playing softball? I have been playing softball since […]

The Wilkes baseball team has had an up and down start to the season thus far. The Colonels have an 8-8 record with plenty of games yet to be played. For a team that expected big things coming into the season this could be seen as somewhat of a disappointment to the players. However, with […]

After a week of delays and cancellations due to weather, the Wilkes University softball team finally returned to the field last Tuesday night against the Scranton Royals. The team had been scheduled to play Lebanon Valley College on Tuesday, March 25, however that game was rained out. Another game, scheduled Friday, March 28, was pushed […]

Between 1967 and 1981, Wilkes University had an NCAA men’s lacrosse team and even won a Middle Atlantic Conference championship in 1975. “It’d be great to see Wilkes University bring lacrosse back as an NCAA Division III sport,” said Paul Gaffney, a member of the lacrosse team. In 2005, the Wilkes men’s lacrosse joined the […]

The women’s lacrosse team traveled down to Purchase, New York Wednesday afternoon to open up this season’s conference play by defeating the Valiants of Manhattanville 22-10. This year’s women’s lacrosse team has begun to let its loss column collect some dust and it seems like this week it got a little dustier. The Lady Colonels […]

AutoTalk is Zach Benedict’s new Beacon blog and radio program broadcast weekly on WCLH 90.7. Watch for it each week in the online Beacon and from 1-1:30 p.m. each Wednesday. I started working on cars at a very young age. I helped my dad do simple routine maintenance on all our vehicles (which have all […]

Hey there Beacon readers! Last time I mentioned I was going to see Grouplove. I just saw them in Philly with my friend and fellow Colonel, Juli Salvato. We had an amazing time down there, and the band including opening acts Alex Winston and MS MR were better than I expected. I only knew a […]