STORM LAKE, Iowa - The BVU Valorant team got a huge win last night by defeating Milwaukee School of Engineering 2-1 in the Navigators Great Plains division of NECC. With the win the Beavers move to 3-0 in divisional play. FIFA players Jorge Pinon and Ramon Garcia got their season started in ECAC competition. Pinon lost a heartbreaker 2-1 while Garcia won 2-0. Tigges raced in Formula C at West Coast Grand Prix at WeatherTech Raceway at Laguna Seca. Tigges finished 21st in race one and 13th in race two. 

Valorant had a tough opening map against the Red Raiders as they fell 13-9. BVU opened up the night winning the first two rounds but struggled to string anything together after that. Jackson Trotman led the way with 19 kills. The final two maps were back and forth battles with BVU coming out on top 15-13 and 13-11. The Beavers were led Aiden Webber and Trotman with 27 kills in the 15-13 victory while in the final map Trotman again led the way with 29 kills. The Beavers will look to go 4-0 next week when they take on Clark University Chromatic at 9 pm. 

Monday night Joshua Tigges took to Laguna Seca in his Buena Vista University Formula 4 car for the West Coast Grand Prix in the Collegiate iRacing League. After a disappointing start to the evening Tigges was able to claw his way back to tie his second-best finish in the series. After a relatively clean start to race 1, Tigges kept pushing the limits of the track too far, catches edges of the dirt to send him spinning multiple times. As race 1 came to a close Tigges crossed the line P21, finishing one spot out of receiving championship points. 

Disappointed, Tigges knew he had to develop a new approach to race 2, starting P21 at the back of the pack. After getting a good jump when the lights went out, Tigges took a conservative approach to lap 1, weaving his way through and narrowly missing spinning cars. Ultimately, Tigges emerged P15 after the first lap and ran a complete opposite race compared to the first of the evening. Ultimately running a clean race, Tigges was able to work his way up to P13 as the checkered flag flew on the evening. Although his streak of top-15's came to a close, a new streak started right away. Tigges hopes to elongate this streak and his next chance to do so comes next Monday when he hops back into the Nascar Cup Series car to tackle the unpredictability of Talladega Superspeedway in the Alabama 111.