MACON - The Honorable Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of Pennsylvania, will be the featured speaker at The Executive Forum on Thursday, March 9. He will give a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. at The University Center at Mercer University in Macon.
MACON, Ga. - With its first television game of the season coming up on Sunday, Feb. 26, against new in-state Atlantic Sun rival Kennesaw State, the Mercer women's basketball team is asking fans to pack three buses for the short ride up I-75.
Three buses with 150 available spots will depart from the Connell Student Center at 10 a.m. for Kennesaw State's campus with tip-off scheduled for 1 p.m. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to sign up for a spot at the Student Center throughout this week and next. Students will be able to purchase a $1 tickets at the KSU Convocation Center with their Bear card; faculty and staff will also receive $1 tickets when presenting their Bear Card.
The game will be featured as the A-Sun/CSS Game of the Week, and will be broadcast throughout the Southeast. Fans are asked to wear orange and black for the game to show their support for the Bears on TV.
ATLANTA - Ashley Adams, a third-year pharmacy student at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy, was one of six students nationally to be awarded the Zada M. Cooper Scholarship by the Kappa Epsilon (KE) Foundation. The scholarship recognizes pharmacy students with superior academic standards who have also contributed substantially to the activities of their KE chapter and pharmacy school.
MACON, Ga. – The Mercer baseball team once again took the lead early and held on for a 6-4 win on Sunday at Claude...
JACKSONVILE, Fla.- Behind a balanced offensive attack, the Bears placed five players in double figures as the Mercer men's basketball team topped first-year Atlantic Sun Conference member North Florida, 77-71, Sunday afternoon at UNF Arena.
"It was a big effort on both the offensive and defensive ends," said Mercer head coach Mark Slonaker. "Our guys really stepped up on both ends."
In only the second meeting between the two schools, Mercer (9-16, 7-11 A-Sun) started slowly. The Ospreys jumped out to a 4-0 lead, but the Bears answering with an 11-2 run, powered by Shaddean Aaron's four points and guard Andrew Brown's jumper and 3-pointer, giving Mercer an 11-6 lead.
Coming out of the first media timeout, UNF started using full-court pressure, and it paid dividends, with the Bears turning it over three consecutive trips upcourt, leading to six straight points for the Ospreys. The North Florida run reached 11 straight points, giving the Ospreys a 15-11...
LITHIA SPRINGS - Mercer University's Douglas County Regional Academic Center will begin its second session of spring semester on Friday, March 10. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the center's evening and weekend programs are invited to a free open house Thursday, Feb. 23, at 6:30 p.m. Academic advisors, professors, financial planning representatives and admissions counselors will be available to answer questions and discuss programs.
MACON - David Schnarch, Ph.D., founder of the Marriage and Family Health Center in Evergreen, Col., will be the featured speaker at the Seventh Annual Armour Lecture Series to be held at the School of Medicine, March 2 and 3. He will speak on intimacy, sexuality and relationships.
MACON, Ga. – Mercer baseball prevailed over Bethune-Cookman 4-2 in a brilliant pitchers duel between Brantley New and R.J Rodriguez on Friday at Claude...
JACKSONVILE, Fla.- Andrew Brown and Ross Alacqua combined for five points inside the final 36 seconds of overtime as the Mercer men's basketball team opened its final road swing of the season with a 93-90 overtime decision past Jacksonville University Friday night in Atlantic Sun Conference action at Swisher Gymnasium. The Bears struggled to get untracked offensively in the early going, missing shots or committing turnovers in three of its first four possessions, as Jacksonville (1-24, 1-17 A-Sun) sprinted out to an 8-2 lead on the strength of a pair of 3-pointers by seniors Antonio Cool and Aubrey Conerly, sandwiched around a basket by Mario Brown.
Andrew Brown's running jumper in the lane pulled Mercer (8-16, 6-11 A-Sun) back to within one, at 8-7, with 16 minutes remaining in the opening half. His 3-pointer knotted the score at 10 apiece and sophomore Brian Pfohl's post-up bucket gave the Bears their first lead, at 12-10.
Injuries slowed the Mercer...
MACON, Ga. - The University Center will be buzzing with basketball this weekend, as the Mercer women's basketball game scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 18, against Gardner-Webb has been moved from 2 p.m. to noon. The game time has been changed due to the GISA Class AAA State Basketball Tournament.
The girls' quarterfinals was held Friday night. The boys' quarterfinals will be Saturday, Feb. 18, with the first game slated for a 4 p.m. start.
