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(02/04/08 6:11am)
It took 11 games over a three-month span for the IU hockey team to register its first win in the Greater Midwest Hockey League.\nIt took only one day for the team to get its second.\nIU’s victory not only took the pressure off the team to get its first win, but also gave IU (12-9-4, 2-6-4 GMHL) bragging rights against the defending American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II national champions, the Michigan State Spartans.\nIU completed a third period comeback to hold on to a 7-6 win Friday night. The team carried that momentum into a 5-4 victory the following afternoon to complete the weekend sweep of the Spartans.\nFriday, IU did something it struggled to do during its midseason slump – hold onto a third period lead. After scoring a late second period goal to narrow Michigan State’s lead to 4-3, IU nailed three early third period goals to take a 6-4 lead.\nMichigan State (13-14-1) kept it close with two goals, but IU matched each goal to hold its lead. \nTwo weeks ago, IU lost its 5-4 lead to Ohio State with a late third period goal and only managed a tie. On Sunday, IU coach Al Karlander said he was impressed with his team’s ability to close out the game.\n“The third period was not only huge in that we won it and came back after being down 4-2,” Karlander said, “but our third periods have not been our best this year and so I guess against the team that’s national champs right now ... gave us just a lot of real positive energy.”\nIU’s first two goals of the game came on power play opportunities. Junior forward Daniel Keeney scored in the first period to tie the game at one, and junior forward Mike Vaughan followed with a goal early in the second frame to give his team a 2-1 lead.\nSaturday marked improvement for another aspect of IU’s game – penalty killing. IU players were charged with 20 penalty minutes, compared to Michigan State’s six.\n“We took some undisciplined penalties,” Karlander said. “Of course you always think the referee is only looking one way, but we had a lot of penalty killing to do.”\nFor most of the game, IU was able to weather the penalties. In fact, in the first period, senior forward Dan Karlander scored a shorthanded goal to give IU a 2-0 lead.\nAs the game’s end drew closer, however, Michigan State started taking advantage of IU’s penalties. The Spartans scored a power-play goal with 7:26 remaining and added another power-play goal with 1:00 remaining to give IU a scare. \nGoalie Logan Tucker set the tone for IU on Saturday. He held a shutout through the first period and a half, allowing his team to grab an early 3-0 lead.\n“Michigan State’s a good club,” Tucker said. “You go out there, you play as best as you can, you hope to get a shutout and ... it doesn’t always happen, but we played well as a team, and got the W.”\nDan Karlander added the other three goals for his second hat trick in three games. The team has now strung together four wins in a row, including two non-league games against Central Michigan last week.\n“To come off that disappointing weekend (at Ohio State) and have four straight wins going up against Michigan next is huge,” Karlander said. “And hopefully we can keep this momentum rolling up through the postseason.”\nThe team faces Michigan in a home weekend series this Friday and Saturday.
(01/28/08 5:34am)
Julius Caesar’s mantra “veni, vidi, vici” was the feeling the IU women’s swimming team had after its effort against the Purdue Boilermakers Saturday.\nIU (2-5) defeated in-state rival Purdue (5-9) at West Lafayette in its final tune-up before the Big Ten championships Feb. 21-23. The Hoosiers collected 11 of the 16 individual and relay victories to pave the way for a 186-114 final score.\nThe Hoosiers took control from the outset, as the 400-yard medley relay team of sophomore Presley Bard, junior Sarah Stockwell, sophomore Kate Zubkova and sophomore Donna Smailis opened the meet with a victory in an NCAA provisional time of 3:42.81. \nSmailis added a victory in the 200-yard freestyle to begin a streak of four straight races with Hoosiers on top in each one. Zubkova won the 100-yard backstroke, Stockwell won the 100-yard breaststroke and junior Allison Kay won the 200-yard butterfly. The meet was over almost as soon as it began.\n“I thought it was a real team effort since we were a little shorthanded today,” IU coach Ray Looze said. “Our team is just so resilient, and girls just fill in where needed.” \nInjuries to junior swimmer Kristin Cihoski and sophomore diver Brittney Feldman depleted the team even more than it already had been. Last month, the team was forced to redshirt sophomores Ashley Jones and Brittany Barwegen due to injuries.\nIn place of the injured team members, two senior swimmers had impressive performances in their final regular season dual meet.\nChristie Fuchs scored points for the Hoosiers with a second-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly and a fifth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly. Brittany Epperson placed third in the 50-yard freestyle, fourth in the 100-yard freestyle and concluded the meet by contributing to a Hoosier victory in the 400-yard freestyle relay. \nFuchs, who said prior to the meet that IU’s goal was to completely dominate the Boilermakers, felt a sense of accomplishment upon fulfilling that goal.\n“We had a lot of motivation to beat Purdue, because they are Purdue,” she said. “I think everyone swam really well. Going into the Big Ten’s, I think we have a lot more confidence in our team abilities and should do well.”\nWhile the Hoosiers put the meet away early, they continued taking victories in the second half of the meet as well, including first-place finishes in the last five events. Smailis won her second individual event of the day with a season-best 51.55 in the 100-yard freestyle. Sophomore Amilee Smith took the 200-yard breaststroke as IU posted a 1-2-3 finish. Stockwell finished second, and freshman Jessica Hill took third.\nFreshman Amanda Smith won the 500-yard freestyle in 4:51.51, .08 faster than Purdue’s second-place finisher. Zubkova took a break from her normal dominance in the backstroke events – having won every backstroke race she has competed in this year, to win the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard individual medley. The team’s 400-yard freestyle relay victory ended the meet.\nThe team now has four weeks to train for its next meet, the Big Ten Championships, in Columbus, Ohio.
(01/25/08 5:31am)
IU senior swimmer Christie Fuchs has a clear goal in mind when her team travels to West Lafayette this weekend to face Purdue.\nThe goal: “Pretty much dominating the meet in spirit and in the pool,” she said. “Obviously, Purdue’s a rival of ours, so we want to beat them badly.”\nThe Hoosiers (1-5) will be looking to close out its dual-meet season with a victory against in-state rival Purdue (5-8) at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center. The meet begins tomorrow at 1 p.m.\nThe Boilermakers, who have had several more dual meets than IU, also have shared two common opponents with the Hoosiers. Purdue lost to Northwestern and Notre Dame in dual meets. IU defeated Northwestern in its only dual-meet victory and topped the Fighting Irish in a championship format two weeks ago.\n“I think we stack up really well against them,” Fuchs said. “They’re not as strong as they have been in the past. We’re pretty much going to dominate them if we swim the way we’re capable.”\nIU coach Ray Looze was more cautious, warning that any Big Ten team presents a challenge.\n“It’s going to be a really challenging meet for us,” Looze said. “Obviously we’ve struggled in our dual meets this season but (the Boilermakers) present a big challenge because they’re a very solid team across the board from swimming to diving.”\nThe divers must compete against Ashley Karnes, who extended her springboard winning streak to six against Miami (Ohio) last week. She has yet to lose in the 1-meter or 3-meter events in 2008. \nIU’s sophomore star Kate Zubkova, who has swept the backstroke events in the past two meets, will be challenged by Boilermaker freshman Allie Smith who posted an NCAA provisional time in the 100-yard backstroke last week. Zubkova has an ‘A’ standard time of 54.18 in that event.\n“We certainly have the capability to (win),” Looze said. “And if we swim up to our potential that’s what I expect. We need to go up to Purdue and take care of business at their home pool where they are very tough.”\nThe team’s overall goal is to be well prepared for the Big Ten Championships in late February. Although the swimmers want to beat their rivals this week, they are putting the meet in perspective.\n“We do want to beat them either way,” freshman swimmer Ashley Kranz said. “But we’re just out there trying to have some good races and get ready for Big Ten’s and just tighten up on everything.” \nIU will also look to jump into the coaches’ top-25 poll with a win this week. The defending Big Ten champion Hoosiers started the season ranked, but fell out of the polls after a 1-4 record during the first semester. After an impressive win at the Notre Dame Invitational and a close loss against then-No. 9 Tennessee, IU was just outside the Jan. 18 poll.\n“We’ve built a team that is a lot stronger at the end of the season,” Kranz said. “So each meet we’ve been getting a lot better and we’re hoping by Big Ten’s we’ll be able to nail everything and be really strong.”
(01/23/08 5:04am)
The IU hockey team was 8-2-1 after a weekend series sweep against Southern Illinois in early November. Two-and-a-half months and 10 games later, the win column still stands at eight victories.\nLeague opponent Ohio State (14-6-1) prevented IU from picking up a much-needed win last weekend. The Buckeyes forced a 5-5 tie Friday and finished their home stand in Columbus with a 7-5 win Saturday.\nThis weekend, IU (8-9-4) takes a break from league play to host Central Michigan (11-12-0) for a weekend series at Bloomington’s Frank Southern Ice Arena. Junior Mike Vaughan was cautious about taking Central Michigan too lightly, despite the team’s sub-.500 record.\n“They’re a similar team to us even though they are not in our region or conference,” he said. “Obviously you can’t look at the record to see how good they are because I think our record doesn’t show how good we are. We’ll have to play well if we want to win.”\nLast weekend, which IU coach Al Karlander described as “the most important weekend of the season” did not go well for IU. The team was looking to hold its No. 5 ranking, one spot ahead of Ohio State in the Southeast region. The Hoosiers were also hoping for a Greater Midwest Hockey League win after starting league play 0-6-4 and falling to last place in the league.\nA week after displaying one of its most impressive defensive performances, allowing No. 1 Illinois only two goals, the team allowed 12 goals in two games against Ohio State.\n“It’s kind of a mental thing,” Vaughan said. “We knew (last week) Illinois was going to be good and that we had to play well defensively. This week, we knew that we needed to play very well offensively. We thought a lot more offensive-minded and did not pay attention to the defense and that hurt us.”\nOn Friday, IU took a 3-1 lead after the first period. Ohio State responded with three goals of its own to lead 4-3. The teams continued to trade goals as IU took a 5-4 lead. However, Ohio State added a fifth goal to tie the game and take a point from IU’s season standings. Vaughan, sophomore forward Joe Fornari, sophomore forward Adam Logue, junior forward Adam Fishbein and freshman defenseman Ryan Gidley each scored once for IU.\nOhio State jumped on IU early in the second game, taking a 2-0 lead before the teams started exchanging goals for the rest of the game. Ohio State won 7-5.\n“We needed those games bad and we came out with a tie and loss,” Logue said. “Defensively we couldn’t stop them. There’s no way you should score five goals and lose.”\nThe team still maintains its focus for the national tournament at the end of the season. Vaughan said the sense of urgency to end the winless streak pales in comparison to playing well in the postseason.\n“We talk about (winning) every single game,” he said. “We put ourselves in a position to win but we haven’t been able to shut the door on anybody, but we’re still at a point in the season where we can turn things around.”\nThe team has four more league games before preparing for the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II regional in late February.\n“You know a team is going downhill when it gets used to losing,” Fornari said. “And we can’t get that way.”
(01/22/08 4:52am)
With the regular season almost complete, the IU women’s swimming and diving team is beginning to peak at the right time.\nAnd even though the team showed more progress Friday against No. 9 Tennessee, it wasn’t quite enough to defeat the Volunteers. Tennessee (5-1) used a late string of first-place finishes to pull out a 172-128 victory.\n“Our women did a great job,” IU coach Ray Looze said. “For much of the meet we went toe-to-toe with the (No. 9) team in the country. We just came up short in a couple races at the end. I’m really pleased with our performance.”\nThe Hoosiers (1-5) started the meet strong, looking just like the team from last week that upset then-No. 13 Michigan en route to the Notre Dame Invitational title. After the first five events, IU led 49-44. \nSophomore diver Brittney Feldman began the day with a win in the 1-meter springboard, scoring 309.23 points. The 200-yard medley relay team of sophomore swimmer Kate Zubkova, junior swimmer Sarah Stockwell, sophomore swimmer Donna Smailis and sophomore swimmer Presley Bard won the second event and improved on their NCAA B cut time, with a season-best 1:42.09.\nZubkova dominated the 100-yard backstroke, winning by four seconds over the Tennessee runner-up. Stockwell matched her season-best NCAA B cut time with a 1:03.57 in the 100-yard breaststroke to win the event.\nThe Volunteers began to make up for the Hoosiers’ strong start, but it wasn’t until the eighth event out of 16 that the home team took the lead for good. Michele King’s victory for Tennessee in the 50-yard freestyle opened a run that would include first place finishes in seven of the last eight races. \nZubkova recorded the Hoosiers’ lone first-place finish in the second half of the meet. She won the 200-yard backstroke in 1:58.40, and for the second consecutive week swept the backstroke races.\n“We just got beat by a better team today,” Looze said. “I’m confident we’ll eventually be able to get our hands on the wall first and win in the future. We’re getting the most out of our performances.”\nWhile the loss does nothing to improve IU’s record, many swimmers and divers had their best performances of the season. Smailis recorded a season-best 51.70 in the 100-yard freestyle to finish second. Stockwell also had a season best in the 200-yard breaststroke, with an NCAA provisional mark of 2:17.26. Junior swimmer Allison Kay posted a 4:53.06 in the 500-yard freestyle, her fastest time of the season.\nJunior swimmer Abby Cooper, who placed fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke, said the team is building confidence into the season’s defining meets – including next week’s regular season finale at Purdue and the Big Ten championships in February.\n“I thought it was a really good meet,” she said. “We came off a good weekend last week. A lot of us swam well that weekend. That gave us a little confidence and we swam well again this week. We’ve improved so much from our last meet in December.”\nFeldman, the 1-meter springboard winner, credits winter training for IU’s improvement this semester.\n“We came off of really rigorous winter training in Puerto Rico,” she said. “We had some pretty intense practices. And now we’re getting right where we need to be for the championship season.”
(01/18/08 6:06am)
The snowball effect is often seen in cheap Saturday morning cartoons, with characters hopelessly running away from an ever-expanding snowball as it bounds down a hill.\nIU coach Ray Looze hopes the snowball effect his women’s swimming and diving team is creating will muster enough momentum to last until the Big Ten Championships in February. \nThe momentum started with a first-place finish in the Notre Dame Invitational last weekend. The Hoosiers will try to continue their success Friday in a dual meet at No. 9 Tennessee.\n“I’d love to see the women build on last week and take that momentum that was created and just keep it snowballing and building toward the end of the season,” Looze said. “We built a lot of confidence, showed some people we’re not what they thought we were.”\nThe team, which started the season ranked in the top 25 but dropped out after a 1-4 start, has been reenergized with the addition of sophomore transfer Kate Zubkova. The swimmer from Ukraine has competed with her national team since 2003, representing her country in the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2007 FINA World Championships. After training with the national team all season, she became eligible to compete for the Hoosiers at the beginning of the semester and has made an immediate impact on the team.\nShe recorded six first-place finishes in the Notre Dame Invitational, including an NCAA A standard time of 54.18 in the 100-yard backstroke. For her performance, she was named Big Ten Swimmer of the Week and the CollegeSwimming.com National Swimmer of the Week.\nAs for Friday’s meet in Knoxville, Tenn., the coaching staff envisions a building process to work towards the important meets at the season’s end. \nIU diving coach Jeff Huber said his divers were fatigued following the Notre Dame meet. He said he doesn’t want to wear them out before the first meets.\n“We try to really look at what we need to do now in order to look good at the end of the season for the championship part of the season,” he said. “Tennessee is a great diving program and Dave Parrington is a great diving coach, so we know we’ll have our hands full with his team.”\nLooze said the fact that the No. 9 Volunteers are 4-1 this season doesn’t faze him. \n“We’re just going to worry about ourselves, not anybody else,” he said. “Not the fact that they’re the No. 9 team in the country. They’re a nameless face to us. We want to go in there, take care of our business, worry about ourselves and walk out with some real high confidence leading into the Big Ten and Purdue.”
(01/16/08 5:10am)
Most of the time, players and coaches don’t like talking about moral victories.\nHowever, two weekend losses against an undefeated Illinois squad ranked No. 1 in the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division I poll count as moral victories, senior forward Matt Henderson said.\n“Moral victories aren’t always the best thing, especially when you’re looking for a win. But when you play a team like Illinois, I think it shows we played well and are showing signs of improvement,” he said.\nThe IU ice hockey team (8-8-3), which competes at the Division II level in the ACHA, was shut out 2-0 Friday night by the Illini (17-0-0) and lost by the same margin the next day 5-3.\nThis weekend, the team returns to Greater Midwest Hockey league play in a weekend series at Ohio State. IU will be looking for its first league win to hold onto its No. 5 ranking, one spot above Ohio State, in the Division II Southeast region polls.\n“These might be the most important games of our season,” said Henderson. “We need to be competitive in our league and put ourselves in the best position for the national tournament.”\nOn Friday night, IU played Illinois to a scoreless tie through the first two periods. Sophomore goalie Sal Calace stopped 12 shots on goal in the first period while the offense was readjusting to game play. The team had not played a game since Dec. 8. IU managed only three shots on goal in the first period.\n“It took two periods for the offense to get on track,” IU coach Al Karlander said. “Our defense played great and kept us in the game. And even though we couldn’t score, our offense was able to control the puck and contributed to our defense’s play.”\nThe Illini’s Jason Nemeth broke the tie with six minutes remaining while the teams were skating 4-on-4. They added another open net goal at the end of the game to secure the 2-0 victory.\n“It was really a 1-0 game, if you don’t count that open net goal,” Karlander said. “Our offense didn’t play at an ‘A’ level, but our defense definitely did.” \nIU has struggled on the defensive end this season, allowing 3.7 goals a game. The team had not held an opponent to two goals or less since an Oct. 12 game against Illinois’ Division II-level team.\nThe following day, both offenses played sharper. The Illini capitalized on three power play situations in the first and second periods and added one other goal to push the lead to 4-0. Henderson scored IU’s first goal of the weekend in a short-handed situation to put the score at 4-1 going into the final period.\nDespite goals from Henderson and sophomore forward Joe Fornari, the Illini held off the late rush to win 5-3.\nThe only player that might have not shown rust during the Illinois games was senior captain Dan Karlander. Chosen to play on a Division II Select Team, he went on a whirlwind European hockey tour over winter break. The team went 5-0 against professional and semi-professional teams from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic. Karlander contributed immediately, scoring a goal and an assist in the first game.\n“It was a great learning experience to play against the European teams and also learn about the other programs that my teammates play on across the United States,” he said.
(01/11/08 5:25am)
After a 1-4 start to the season and a 42-day layoff since his team’s last dual meet, IU coach Ray Looze has a right to be concerned about a rusty performance this week.\nLooze, however, is taking a different stance. He is confident the women’s swimming team has improved over break and is well-prepared for this weekend’s Notre Dame Invitational.\n“You’d think we might be rusty, but I think we’re going to come out very fired up,” he said. “We went through a nice long stretch of meets (before break) and now we’re really excited about competition.”\nThe women will swim against Illinois, Michigan and Notre Dame at Notre Dame’s Rolfs Aquatic Center. The meet begins at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon and will continue through Saturday.\nSince its last meet on Nov. 30, a 163-134 loss to Kentucky, the team began to refocus its energy toward the second half of the season. The swimmers spent a week in San Juan, Puerto Rico, over winter break, doing two-a-days almost every day.\nSenior captain Christie Fuchs felt the week away helped the team grow closer together while staying in top shape for competition.\n“We did a lot of team bonding while we were in Puerto Rico,” she said. “I think our chemistry is a lot better than it was back then and I think it will really show in our ability to rely on each other and cheer for each other.”\nThe team also had some roster adjustments. Sophomore backstroke and butterfly swimmer Kate Zubkova, a transfer student who did not have enough credits last semester, will be able to participate in her first meet this weekend.\n“We’re excited to see what she can do in live competition,” Looze said.\nSophomores Ashley Jones (knee surgery) and Brittany Barwegen (mononucleosis), meanwhile, were placed on medical redshirt for the season. \nOne goal for the swimmers this weekend is to improve on its last performance against No. 13-ranked Michigan, a 207-163 loss in early November.\n“Michigan came down here this year in November and handed it to us pretty good,” Looze said. “I’d like to see us turn those tables. We’re not as deep as I would like, but we do have some very good, quality people on the top end. We’re going to be a little bit stronger.” \nFuchs said it will be hard to compare this weekend’s meet with the dual meet, because she feels the team has greatly improved since the loss.\n“It’s a different point in the season and I think we have grown a lot as a team since the last time we swam them, so I think we will be prepared,” \nshe said.\nThe team also will use this meet to see how well it might fare in the Big Ten. Competing against two conference teams, Michigan and Illinois, the defending Big Ten champion Hoosiers view this meet as a testament to how well-prepared they will be for the conference meet in February.\n“This is the beginning of the championship season for them so this is a bit of a statement meet,” Looze said.\nThe divers, like the rest of the team, are young but improving. Head diving coach Jeff Huber is especially excited about the improvement he sees in his freshmen divers and what they might add to the rest of his squad.\n“We’ve got two freshmen who have finally stepped up and did what they need to do with Christina Kouklakis and Heidi Mahnken, so I’m looking forward to this weekend,” he said.
(12/05/07 4:16am)
With an 0-2-2 record in the Greater Midwest Hockey League going into a two-game weekend series against Grand Valley State, the IU hockey team was worried, but not overly concerned that it didn’t have a league win. After losing twice last weekend, that concern is growing.\nIU (0-4-2, 8-5-2 overall) was swept by the host Lakers, the top-ranked team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division II Central Region, and now faces league-leading Miami of Ohio in a two-game home-and-home series this weekend.\nOnly league points are considered for the national tournament at the season’s end. Therefore, despite a successful non-league record, IU finds itself desperate to pick up a league win, which would also be the team’s first victory in more than a month.\n“We’re on quite a skid right now,” senior forward Dan Karlander said. “If we come out of the weekend without a win, I’ll be extremely disappointed.”\nAssociate head coach Tom Orr was a little more optimistic.\n“As we move through the GMHL, those wins will come,” Orr said. “We’re hoping with Miami of Ohio here at home, it would be a perfect opportunity to get a win.”\nThe matchup with Miami of Ohio will be IU’s first home game since Oct. 27. \nIU struggled against top-ranked Grand Valley, suffering its most lopsided defeat of the season Friday night, losing 7-1. IU played better Saturday but still lost 4-2. \nThe Lakers jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first period Friday before Karlander scored IU’s only goal. Led by freshman Ryan Welch’s three goal hat trick, the Lakers scored five unanswered goals in the next two periods for the blowout victory. \n“Obviously Grand Valley is a pretty good team,” Karlander said. “They are the No. 1 team in the best region in the country. We came out and didn’t really play 60 minutes. That really hurt us. Every time we made a mistake, they capitalized on it; unfortunately, we couldn’t do the same to them. We struggled to put the puck in the net all weekend.”\nSaturday, IU came out with a little more energy. In fact, Orr thought his team outplayed the Lakers.\n“I was really excited about the way we responded on Saturday,” he said. “Our team definitely has the ability to play with any team in the country. It just seemed like everything that could go right went right for them and everything that could go wrong went wrong for us.”\nHe cited one Grand Valley goal in which the puck ricocheted off the shin pads of two players and found its way into the net. \n“As a coaching staff, there’s not much you can do to stop something like that other than attribute it to some bad luck.”\nFreshman forward Alex Cook and junior forward Adam Fishbein scored IU’s two goals.
(11/28/07 5:31am)
The IU ice hockey team started the season with five convincing wins, averaging seven goals per game while allowing less than two goals against per game. \nDespite the strong start against non-conference foes, the team has fallen into last place in the highly competitive Greater Midwest Hockey League with a 0-2-2 league record (8-3-2 overall).\n“We need to get that first league win,” freshman forward and leading scorer KC Madock said. “Once you get one, they start rolling.”\nThis weekend, the team will have that chance when it travels to Grand Valley State University for a Friday-Saturday doubleheader. The Lakers (13-3-0), who joined the GMHL last season, are currently the top-ranked team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II Central Region. \nIU associate head coach Tom Orr is confident the team can be competitive against Grand Valley State and is not too worried about his team’s position. In a league that routinely places five or six teams in the 16-team national tournament, records can be deceptive.\n“(0-2-2) is just a small sample size,” Orr said. “By the end of the season, we should have a lot of league wins. Our record is something we are concerned about as a team, but it is something we can make right this weekend. We’re kind of excited to get a chance to get that first win against a quality opponent.”\nIU will try to rebound from a disheartening series against host Ferris State two weekends ago, when the team could only muster a loss and a tie. Ferris State (1-15-1) snapped a Miami Dolphins-like streak, winning its first game of the season after 15 consecutive losses.\nIU scored the first two goals of the Friday night game before Ferris State went on a scoring run, putting four shots past freshman goalie Justin Lincoln. \nIn the second period, Lincoln was knocked out cold by a misdirected shot, suffering a temporary spinal concussion. Backup goalie sophomore Sal Calace played the second half of the game and allowed only one goal. The final score was 5-3. Junior forward Daniel Keeney paced IU with two goals.\n“It’s very disappointing,” Madock said. “Anytime you are up two goals, especially that quick, you think you can beat that team.” \nThe following day, IU appeared to take control of the game when freshman defenseman Ryan Gidley scored with just five minutes remaining. However, Ferris State’s leading scorer, John Juliano, put a tricky backhand shot past freshman goalie Jason Burriss to tie the game 4-4. Both teams played conservatively in overtime, not wanting to allow a point, and the game ended in the tie. \n“It would’ve been nice to get the win,” Burriss said. “As a backup goalie, you wait for the opportunity to get some game time. I’d like to have that one shot back, but bounces don’t always go your way.”\nBesides Gidley, senior forwards Dan Karlander and Sam Adler and freshman forward Alex Cook added goals.
(11/14/07 5:02am)
As the son of a former NHL player and younger sibling to three college hockey players, IU ice hockey senior captain Dan Karlander knew early on that hockey would play a significant part in his life.\nWhat he didn’t know is how much his father Al Karlander would be involved in his hockey career.\nDan Karlander wraps up his career at IU this year, which was highlighted by his selection to play on an all-star team in Europe over winter break. Just as his career began at age six, it will end with his father as head coach.\nAl Karlander, who played for the Detroit Red Wings from 1969 to 1973, coached his son in several youth leagues and again in high school for two years. But when Dan Karlander moved on to college hockey, he figured he wouldn’t see much of his dad.\n“I came to IU and never thought I’d play for my dad again,” Dan said. However, veteran coach Rich Holdeman resigned after Dan’s sophomore year. Al applied for and was awarded the job.\nWhile the Karlanders might be used to this dual father-son, coach-player relationship, it does create tough situations. With hockey’s violent nature, there is a stark contrast between a father showing love for his son and a coach admonishing his players. When Dan Karlander hears his father yell at him on the ice, he knows he is doing it in his role as coach.\n“When (I) step on the ice, he’s the coach,” Dan Karlander said. “He’s still my dad, but it’s a different relationship around hockey (than) when I go to dinner with him. In a game, if I screw up, he should yell at me.”\nBoth of them have sacrificed much to help the team. In doing so, they’ve formed a special relationship unlike most father-son bonds. \nDan Karlander served on the club’s executive board as treasurer and spent the last two seasons as captain. He led the team in scoring the last two seasons.\nAl Karlander is responsible for coaching duties on the ice, including the role of choosing the players to dress on game day. Along with associate head coach Tom Orr, Al Karlander spends several hours behind the scenes working to develop IU hockey. \n“It’s really nice to have your dad around,” Dan Karlander said. “A lot of people go to college and the relationship with your parents distances. I almost have a professional relationship with my dad, because we both take a huge part in running this organization. It’s cool to see my dad in that regard.”\nAs coach, Al Karlander is forced to walk a fine line when making decisions about his son’s role on the team. \n“It can be tough coaching your son with concerns about showing favoritism or playing to his level and not the team’s level,” Al Karlander said. “But it’s an absolute joy and privilege to coach him. We’ve probably shared higher highs than most father-son relationships.\n“I tend to be harder on him than the other players. But I find that my expectations for him are not any greater than the expectations he has for himself.” \nOver winter break, Dan Karlander will travel with the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division II Select Team to Europe and play four exhibition games against professional European teams. The crowds will range in size from 3,000 to 5,000, something Dan Karlander rarely experiences in collegiate club hockey.\n“I’m really excited about it,” Dan Karlander said. “I never really thought I’d get a chance to do this. It’s a huge honor I was selected to do it.”\nHis whirlwind tour will include games, as well as some sightseeing, in Munich, Germany, Prague, Czech Republic and Innsbruck, Austria. \nIt’s little surprise that his dad will be making the trip with him. This time, however, he will just be a spectator.
(11/07/07 4:43am)
Freshman KC Madock and sophomore Chris Benz have known each other for a while.\nThey played hockey together in Chicago for two years. They are now roommates. \nAnd over the weekend, the two played crucial roles in IU’s two-game sweep of host Southern Illinois. IU (8-2-1) won convincingly Friday by a score of 6-3 and held on for a 4-3 victory Saturday.\nFriday night, Madock scored IU’s first hat trick of the season, with each goal coming off an assist from Benz. Madock’s first goal was IU’s fourth in the first period, as the team jumped on the Cougars (5-4). Junior forward Daniel Keeney and senior forwards Sam Adler and Dan Karlander each scored in the period.\nMadock provided the rest of the team’s scoring with a goal in the second period and another in the third to increase IU’s lead to 6-1. Two late Southern Illinois goals made the final score a little more respectable.\n“We were expecting a lighter opponent in Southern Illinois,” Madock said. “But they started playing well. They played a lot better in the second and third period. Their goalie stepped up and played well for the rest of the game and into the next game.”\nSouthern Illinois used the late momentum gained Friday to force a tougher game Saturday.\nWith a 2-2 tie going into the third period, Southern Illinois freshman forward Tim Dolan scored early in the third to give the Cougars their first lead of the weekend. \nAfter Benz scored a goal to tie the game with 10 minutes remaining, the teams played even for six minutes.\n With 3:15 remaining, sophomore forward Adam Logue dropped a pass between his legs to junior forward Adam Fishbein. Logue drew away both defenders, leaving Fishbein to convert an easy game-winning goal.\n“We were forcing it a lot,” Madock said. “It was because it was a closer game than we thought it should be. Southern Illinois played a lot better. I don’t really think it was a letdown for us from Friday.”\nThe teams traded goals in the first and second periods, with sophomore forward Joe Fornari and Madock scoring for IU. Madock’s second-period goal came on a give-and-go with Benz, and he finished the weekend with four goals on four Benz assists.\n“Friday night we were just clicking,” Benz said. “And Saturday was the same. We’re clicking better than anyone else on the team right now.” \nThe team has a bye week this week. They will rest up for the following two weekends, when they will play critical games against league rivals Ferris State and Grand Valley State, both Michigan schools.\n“Michigan guys are big, they’re tough, and they’re good,” Madock said. “They should be good series.”
(10/31/07 4:33am)
After the IU ice hockey team dismantled DePaul goalie Jason Glosniak with a six-goal offensive barrage Friday, Glosniak wanted to get even Saturday.\nIU continually fired shots in his direction – the team had a 52-18 advantage in shots on goal in the second game of the weekend doubleheader – but Glosniak allowed just one puck to get by him. IU freshman center Chris Benz’s lone third-period goal was too little too late, as the Blue Demons already tallied a three-goal lead.\nIU (6-2-1) split the series against DePaul, winning 6-4 Friday and losing 4-1 Saturday. The team played without two key offensive leaders, senior captain Dan Karlander and sophomore forward Joe Fornari, who were out because \nof injury.\nFriday night, senior defenseman Brad Kirchner and Benz helped replace the missing offense, especially in power play situations. IU converted on four of five power play opportunities, with two goals from Kirchner and a goal and an assist from Benz. Sophomore forward Adam Logue and junior forward Daniel Keeney also scored goals, as IU opened a 6-2 advantage by the end of the second period. \nWith the comfortable lead, the team got a little sloppy in the third period, committing several penalties and allowing two Blue Demon goals.\n “We played well together as a team without Karlander and Fornari,” Kirchner said. “Our young guys played well.”\nBut on Saturday, DePaul’s three goals in the first two periods and Glosniak’s stellar goalie play were too much to overcome. Benz’ third-period goal avoided the shutout, but not bragging rights within his family, as his brother Tim plays for DePaul.\n“We came up against a real hot goaltender,” head coach Al Karlander said. “A good goaltender stops 90 percent of the shots. If that had been the case, we’d have had five goals, which would have taken care of what we needed.”\nKirchner was somewhat disappointed in the team’s defensive play over the weekend, as IU allowed four goals \neach game.\n“We definitely need to play better team defense,” Kirchner said. “We need to give our goalies a better view of the puck, clearing guys out of the net. We left too many guys in front of the net.”\nStill, he said he thinks IU is better than DePaul.\n“I think we win nine out of 10 against those guys,” Kirchner said. “I think they got one on us this weekend.” \nThis weekend, IU travels to Southern Illinois (5-2-0) for a weekend doubleheader. Despite Southern Illinois’ Top 10 Central Region ranking in last season’s final American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II poll, IU swept the team last season with two easy \nhome wins. \nIU expects to have Fornari and Karlander back in the lineup for this weekend. \n“We still can’t take them lightly,” Kirchner said.
(10/24/07 3:11am)
The IU ice hockey team (5-1-1) had Davenport University on the ropes Friday night as the third period clock wound down.\nAfter freshman Wes Suskind scored with 2:21 remaining to give IU a 4-3 lead, it appeared the team would be adding another hard-fought victory to its season-opening five-game winning streak. \nThe momentum was short-lived, however, as the game ended in a tie. Still, the result was better than that of Saturday’s game, which ended in the Hoosiers’ first loss of the season.\nSophomore forward Joe Fornari was called for a two-minute minor charging penalty soon after Suskind’s goal. Davenport, last season’s American Collegiate Hockey Association second-place finisher, pulled its goalie to gain a two-man advantage.\nIn Davenport’s frenzied attempt to score, Dayne Gluting was able to squeeze a shot underneath IU freshman goalie Justin Lincoln’s legs with just 19 seconds remaining to force the tie. \nNeither team scored in overtime, leaving the score at a tie, 4-4, and ending IU’s winning streak. \n“The teams put so much effort in the regular periods that both teams were a little short on stamina by the end of the overtime,” associate head coach Tom Orr said. “It was really just a lot of people playing on heart doing the best they could. It was a standstill in overtime because the guys were just so tired. The scoreboard doesn’t indicate how well we played.”\nThe game went back and forth from the beginning, as both teams traded goals in the first and second periods. With a 2-2 tie going into the third, the teams again traded a pair of goals early in the third period. Senior forward Dan Karlander scored for IU with 15:15 remaining, but Davenport responded halfway through the last period, setting up the end-of-game heroics.\n“We thought we had it in the bag,” Suskind said. “Better luck next time, I guess.”\nIU took the ice the following afternoon in a rematch against Davenport. The hockey game competed for the fans’ attention with IU’s homecoming football game, already in progress. Most of the crowd would file out between periods to catch as much of the football game as possible on TV in the Frank Southern Ice Arena.\nInside the rink, Davenport used the momentum from the night before to jump out to a 3-0 first period lead. \nAfter replacing Lincoln – who was suffering from a minor knee injury – with sophomore backup goalie Sal Calace, IU played an even 2-2 game for the last two periods, and Davenport handed IU its first loss, 5-2. Senior defenseman Brad Kirchner and sophomore forward Chris Bartholomew scored IU’s two goals.\n“Both teams had played such a physical, tiring game Friday night,” Orr said. “It was just one of those things that (Davenport) got the first few breaks and put us in a hole.”\nThe team’s struggles got the best of junior forward Adam Fishbein, who got into a fight with Davenport’s Will Collar midway through the second period.\n“We weren’t playing well,” Fishbein said. “You got to do something to get the boys going. I thought we played substantially better afterwards. It’s part of hockey, it’s what you got to do sometimes.”\nIn accordance with league rules, Fishbein will be suspended for this Friday night’s game against DePaul. The team faces the Blue Demons twice at home over the weekend before playing the next six games on the road.
(10/17/07 3:30am)
The undefeated IU ice hockey team opens Greater Midwest Hockey League play with a two-game home stand this weekend against its toughest opponent to date, the Davenport University Panthers.\nAfter a 5-0 start, including a two-game sweep against Illinois’ Division II club team this past weekend, the team is ready for a test.\nDavenport finished second in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II nationals this past March, losing an overtime game to Michigan State in the finals. \nAlthough the Panthers started the season a modest 4-4, IU junior forward Adam Fishbein expects a tough opponent when the Hoosiers meet the Panthers on the ice Friday night at the Frank Southern Ice Arena.\n“This will be our toughest game all year within the league,” Fishbein said. “They are a very strong team, obviously, since they finished second in Nationals. They are a team we’ve been gunning for since the beginning of the season.”\nMore importantly, the GMHL games count toward qualifying for the end-of-season American Collegiate Hockey Association national tournament. After missing the tournament for the first time in 12 years last season, the team’s goal is to return to the tournament. \nSophomore forward Joe Fornari noted the importance of winning early as vital to fulfilling that goal.\n“The quicker you can get out front and pull away from teams (the better),” Fornari said. “You get the momentum rolling, and you just want to keep that momentum rolling to set the tone for the season.” \nFor IU to win, the team will need to continue to produce offensively as it has in pre-league play. During the Hoosiers’ current five-game winning streak, they have scored seven goals per game.\nThis offensive firepower was on display over the weekend against Illinois’ Division II team. IU got off to a strong start in the Friday and Saturday games, winning 8-1 and 10-3, respectively. \nThe Friday night game opened with goals from sophomore forward Mike Vaughn and senior forward Sam Adler. Fishbein added two first period goals in a row, and the stage was set for the rout. Vaughn added a second goal later in the game, and freshman Ryan Gidley and seniors Dan Karlander and Matt Henderson each scored a goal apiece.\nThe following day told the same story, as Vaughn scored the opening goal en route to a big win. Nine players put the puck in the net at least once.\nFornari, who led the team with two goals, thought the team accomplished what it set out to do.\n“We just played to come out hard and get on them early, which we did,” Fornari said. “Especially Saturday, we got off to a good start, we were able to pull ahead quick and take them out of the game really early.”
(10/10/07 4:19am)
The IU hockey team might have needed swimming trunks in case the ice melted during the home opener Saturday. \nDespite temperatures outside reaching 90 degrees, the Frank Southern Ice Arena was ready to host IU’s game against rival Kentucky. On a soft ice surface, IU (3-0) dominated the Kentucky Cool Cats, winning 6-2 and completing a weekend sweep against Kentucky.\nSophomore forward Adam Logue paced the team with two goals and one assist as IU’s offense took control. Junior forward Joe Fornari’s third period goal, the team’s final goal, typified the offensive precision during the game. \nFornari called for the puck, cut into the slot, received a nice pass from a teammate and put a one-timer into the back of the net before the Kentucky goalie could react.\nSophomore forward Mike Vaughn opened the game with a first period goal, and Kentucky responded quickly with a goal to knot the score at one apiece at the end of the period. IU scored the next four goals to put the match out of reach. \nSenior defenseman Brad Kirchner and junior forward Daniel Keeney each scored a goal in that stretch to add to Logue’s total.\nOn the defensive side, freshman goalie Justin Lincoln continued to impress coaches with his play. Lincoln has allowed just four goals in his first three games. \nAfter winning the starting spot in preseason, Lincoln is taking his successes in stride and credits his teammates for the wins.\n“It’s nice to be 3-0,” he said. “I don’t really know what else to say. The team played pretty well as a whole. I’m impressed the team’s really meshed for not having too many practices under our belt so far.”\nAssistant coach Tom Orr was also impressed with his team’s performance.\n“It was nice to get back to our home arena, where we always have a great deal of success,” Orr said. “We have an enthusiastic student base, and the players had a lot excitement for the first home game. Our offense really opened up and we had a lot of nice passes.”\nThe Saturday game was one of the first times the team played at its home rink. With the warm temperatures, the arena had been closed, and the team had been practicing in Indianapolis. IU opened its regular season with two road games.\nFriday night, IU traveled to Kentucky for a midnight game. Amidst a crazy crowd that included several rowdy fans, IU defeated the Cool Cats 4-2. \nFreshman K.C. Madock netted his first two collegiate goals to open the scoring. Vaughn and senior captain and forward Dan Karlander, the team’s leading scorer last season, added a goal apiece in the third period. \nKarlander’s goal was his first point of the season after he missed the opener against Dayton.\n“It was awesome to score that first goal,” Madock said. “The atmosphere was great – the midnight game, the fans were were yelling and screaming the whole time. It was one of the coolest places I’ve ever played.”\nFriday, IU opens a weekend homestand against Illinois, who lost twice to Kentucky already this season. Illinois will be IU’s final tune-up before Greater Midwest Hockey League play gets underway the following week.
(10/09/07 2:18am)
With national obesity rates expanding, what used to be labeled the “freshman 10” has evolved into the modern-day legend of the “freshman 15.”\nAccording to several recent studies, however, that myth doesn’t necessarily reflect true trends on college campuses.\nVarious research shows that freshmen tend to gain between four and nine pounds from high school graduation to the end of their first spring semester. Cornell University researchers estimated freshmen put on 4.2 pounds in their first 12 weeks on campus, according to a 2004 study published in the International Journal of Obesity.\nResearchers at Rutgers University, in a similar study, recorded the weight of 217 freshmen entering college. Of the 67 who agreed to be weighed at the end of spring semester, those who put on weight averaged an increase of seven pounds. However, several freshmen lost weight, leading the study to report only a three pound average weight increase.\nIU’s Residential Programs and Services dietitian Heidi Boruff said the average freshman’s weight gain is far less than 15 pounds. She said some weight gain might even be natural. \nBoruff said that while freshmen like to consider themselves full-grown adults, many are still growing. A small weight gain should be expected, she said. \nFor some, though, pizza and hamburgers at all-you-can-eat cafeterias can be too enticing. Boruff’s advice is simple: Follow the food guide pyramid.\n“Everything’s OK in moderation, but you need to remember that ‘in moderation,’” Boruff said. She also recommended limiting alcohol consumption.\nAt the other extreme, the “freshman negative 15” might be as worrisome for students as excessive weight gain, Boruff said. Anorexia and bulimia are growing concerns on campuses as students become overwhelmed by their studies and obsessed with their appearances.\n“We have a lot of students who come here and feel the pressure to be thin – women students mostly – so a lot of them will become (purgers) or they just won’t eat,” Boruff said.
(10/03/07 2:27am)
IU junior Daniel Keeney intercepted the puck in a shorthanded situation and had a breakaway to the goal in the first period of Indiana’s ice hockey season opener against Dayton. \nTripped by a Dayton defender, he was awarded a penalty shot. Keeney deked the goalie to the right and drilled the puck into the empty net. \nKeeney’s goal, the first goal in IU’s season opener, set the tone for the rest of the penalty-marred game as IU outdistanced the Flyers 7-2 Saturday in front of a hockey-loving crowd at the Hamilton Center Ice Arena in Columbus, Ind. \nAssistant coach Tom Orr, filling in for head coach Al Karlander, was impressed by his team’s ability to capitalize on penalty kills and special teams situations. \nWhen IU was down a player in penalty kill situations, experienced veterans stepped up. Following Feeney’s lead, junior Joe Fornari added another shorthanded goal later in the game to push the score to 3-0. Sophomores Adam Logue and Chris Bartholomew also contributed to killing Dayton’s power play opportunities. \n“It made for exciting hockey, but it wasn’t the standard type of hockey people are used to,” Orr said. “That being said, penalty kills were our strength on Saturday.”\nFreshman goalie and highly regarded recruit Justin Lincoln excelled in his first collegiate hockey game. He produced a shutout through two and a half periods until Dayton scored a shot with nine minutes left in the game.\n“It was nice to see a freshman goalie with that composure and confidence,” Orr said. “It looks like he will be able to help us down the stretch.”\nGoalie play will be critical to the team’s success this season since it lost two seniors to graduation and two sophomores who did not play this season for personal reasons.\nAnd Saturday, it wasn’t all offense for IU, despite the seven goals. The defense, led by seniors Tyson Schroder and Brad Kirchner controlled the puck and transitioned it to the forwards.\n“We played pretty well, considering we were in penalty kills most of the game,” Schroder said. “It was tough with all the new people, because they are harder to read, but overall, everyone really stepped up.”\nFornari added a third period goal to lead the team with two goals for the game. Logue also scored in the third and assisted on two scores. Other scorers were Mike Vaughn, Adam Fishbein and Matt Henderson.\nFriday, IU opens a home-and-home series against Kentucky. After playing in Lexington, the team opens its home schedule at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Frank Southern Ice Arena.\n“Kentucky games are really fun,” Schroder said. “The place in Lexington is absolutely crazy. It’s hard to hear yourself think. Hopefully there will be the same strong home advantage on Saturday in Bloomington.”
(09/28/07 4:33am)
Despite a 15-9-4 record last season, the IU ice hockey team failed to qualify for the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II national tournament, ending a streak of 12 straight appearances in that tournament.\nFor senior team captain and returning scoring leader Dan Karlander, all that means is the team has more to prove this season. His goal isn’t just to return to nationals, but to win it.\n“Our goal every year is to get to the national championship and win it,” he said. “Last year was the first year in awhile we fell short in getting to nationals, but we have high hopes this year of doing well at nationals.”\nThe team begins its quest for postseason aspirations at 3 p.m. Saturday against the University of Dayton at the Hamilton Center Ice Arena in Columbus, Ind. \nThe game, played at the neutral site, is used to support the area youth hockey leagues. \nFor IU, the game serves as a warm-up to next weekend’s home-and-home series against rival Kentucky. \nThe team will play Kentucky at midnight on Friday in Lexington, Ky., and then travel back to Bloomington for their home opener at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Frank Southern Ice Arena at Bloomington South High School. \nLast season, IU tied Kentucky in both games of a season-opening home-and-home series. Players felt if they had a few games under their belt, they could have won both times. Even just one game may help.\n“Last year we played Kentucky after a handful of practices,” Karlander said. \nThat’s why the team purposefully scheduled the game against Dayton this year, he said. \nThe team hopes the extra preparation will help them against Kentucky. \n“Kentucky is always one of our biggest games, biggest rivals. We’re just an hour or so away, so we’re pretty excited for it,” sophomore forward Adam Logue said. \nKarlander said the team is focusing hard on its first few games. \n“We need to make sure we’re ready,” he said. “We can’t overlook either of these teams. They are both in our region. Beating these teams is big, and not just for our record, because when it comes to the end of the season and (the ACHA) is looking back, making rankings they can say, ‘Who did you beat in your region and why should you be ranked ahead of certain teams?’”\nThe veteran IU club, coached by Karlander’s father, former NHL player Al Karlander, is loaded on offense as it returns its top two scoring lines for this season. The six forwards notched over half the team’s points last season. \nThe first line features sophomores Logue and Chris Bartholomew and junior Daniel Keeney. The next line is comprised of the top two scorers from last season, Karlander and junior Joe Fornari, as well as sophomore Mike Vaughn . \nSenior defenseman Brad Kirchner said the team is ready to play. \n “I’m pretty excited about our team,” he said. “We’re hard-nosed, tough team, and exciting to watch.”
