Student Sports Media
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the Butler Student Sports Media program covered three games in three states in one day.
Butler Grizzlies sports are at their peak during the beginning of November. Football is on the downhill side; volleyball is getting ready for their playoff games; cross country is headed to nationals and basketball is getting started with opening games.
Bryce Hirayama, Auh’Shay Sanchez, Hannah Simon, Ashlee Perry and Department Head Mike Swan took to the road as they traveled to Council Bluffs, Iowa for the football team’s final away game of the season. At 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, Hirayama and Sanchez handled the broadcast with flying colors while Simon and Perry took some high-quality photos on the sidelines. Butler ended up on the losing side in Iowa, as the Reivers beat the Grizzlies, 23-13.
After the football game, Wesley Hager and Raymond Hoare broadcast the second women’s basketball game of the season in Sedalia, Missouri at a tourney. The 5:30 p.m. game was smooth sailing for both players and broadcasters, as Butler defeated State Fair, Missouri Community College, 91-65, at the McDonalds Classic. The Lady Grizzlies improved to 1-1 on the season.
The last game of the night took place at the Power Plant at 7 p.m. Ross Cole and and D’Ion Marley performed their first basketball broadcast, as the Butler men’s team took on Kansas Wesleyan JV in the home-opener. The men’s team cruised to a 113-84 win against the Coyotes with first-year Head Coach Kyler Fisher getting his first head coaching win.
“It was a challenge,” Keith West, who was in the KBTL studio supervising operations, said of the conclusion of the coverage. “It was a personal challenge, engineering challenge, but I think we rose to the occasion.”
