baseball

Sports Science Lab works to improve college baseball

By Michelle Fredrickson, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – “Plug your ears.” Immediately after Jeff Kensrud says this, a cannon fires a 140-mile-per-hour baseball at a composite bat. The ball collides with a resounding clang, and both ball and bat ricochet backward.

WSU lab shows some tricks have their limits

PULLMAN, Wash. – Some baseball superstitions are accepted as cold, hard truth. But in the world of physics, the most accepted verities are subject to experimentation. Smith A corked bat hits the ball further? Not in Lloyd Smith’s lab. Baseballs today are livelier than in the past? See above. Storing balls in a humidor can […]

WSU soccer beats Coug volleyball, 5-2

              Slideshow and article by Tim Marsh, WSU Today     PULLMAN – The women’s soccer team squared off against the women’s volleyball team Wednesday evening, Aug. 11, at Bailey-Brayton field, in softball game that was all Cougars.   In the end, the Cougar soccer team beat their WSU volleyball counterparts, 5-2, in exhibition action. […]