Brynnley Bryant Takes Over: Two More Wins at Kokomo
Two matches, two wins, and one player who decided both of them. Cumberlands beat #9 Mount Vernon Nazarene in five sets Saturday morning, then closed out Marian in...
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Two Matches, Two Wins: Patriots Survive Five Sets, Then Sweep a Ranked Host
Two matches in Kokomo, Indiana, and two different kinds of wins. Cumberlands opened the day down two sets to one against Rio Grande and had to fight for every poi...
A Perfect Thursday: Three Sports, Three Wins for Patriots Nation
Three teams took the field Thursday. Three teams won. Women’s soccer answered a tie with a late winner, men’s soccer got a bench goal in the 87th minute at a neut...
By the Numbers: The 2026 Patriots Were Better Than 4-6, and the Math Says So
Cumberlands outgained its 2025 opponents by 769 yards, held the ball nearly eight minutes longer per game, and finished 4-6. Here is what actually went wrong, wha...
Men's Soccer
First Goal, 1 Point Earned: #4 Cumberlands Draws #2 WVU Tech 1-1
Weather pushed the opener back a day, and when it finally kicked off Sunday afternoon at Paul Cline Stadium, it was two ranked teams going at each other for 90 mi...
Women's Soccer
Clean Sheet to Open: Cumberlands Blanks Union Commonwealth 3-0
Cumberlands opened the season with a shutout, beating Union Commonwealth 3-0 at the UC Soccer Complex. The Patriots scored in three different ways, from three dif...
Volleyball
Home Opener, Handled Twice: Patriots Sweep Andrew and Bluefield
The Patriots played their first home matches of the season Friday and made quick work of both. Andrew College fell 25-6, 25-11, 25-12 in the opener, and Bluefield...
One Goal From Everything: Cumberlands Women's Soccer 2026 Season Preview
Last season ended one goal short of a national championship, and that’s the only way to start this preview. The 2026 Patriots didn’t lose a bunch of production th...
Reload, Not Rebuild: Cumberlands Men's Soccer 2026 Season Preview
Last season ended in the national semifinal, and the team that beat Cumberlands there went on to play for the whole thing. That’s the backdrop for 2026, a roster ...