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(02/14/11 2:18am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 7 seeded IU men’s golf team met its match against No. 4 seed Northwestern in the championship match. The defeat came after a decisive 6-0 sweep of No. 10 seed Wisconsin in the first round and two upsets of No. 2 seed Iowa and No. 3 seed Ohio State in the Big Ten Match Play Championship.The Hoosiers fell 4-2 to the Wildcats on Saturday to give Northwestern its second straight title.Through the first two rounds, the Hoosiers played strong, with every player contributing at least one point between the team’s two victories. Freshman David Mills, sophomores Brant Peaper and Corey Ziedonis and junior David Erdy all won their matches in the first two rounds, contributing eight of the Hoosiers’ 10 points and winning by a combined 35 holes.Yet Mills and Ziedonis were the only ones who could keep their winning ways going through the final two rounds, each earning one-up victories against Northwestern and providing the only two points the team won in the finals. Both players finished the tournament with 4-0 records.The Hoosiers needed every point they could get in the Ohio State match. IU tied the Buckeyes 3-3 after six rounds of golf, but the Hoosiers were able to pull out the win in a tiebreaker.However, IU failed to capitalize on two late-round surges by Erdy and Peaper in the championship match. Peaper led for most of his match against Nick Losole III until he pulled even with four holes remaining. Two birdies on 17 and 18 by Losole clinched the match for Northwestern, dropping Peaper’s tournament record to 2-2.Erdy, also 2-2 on the weekend, failed to capitalize on his late-round surge. He came within one stroke with one hole left to play after falling behind five holes with eight remaining.— Nathan Brown
(02/11/11 4:52am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team will travel back to Florida this weekend to compete in the Big Ten Match Play Championship at the PGA National Champions Course in Palm Beach, Fla. The Hoosiers began their spring with a decisive win against Ball State in the Big Red Shootout on Feb. 5.Though ranked in the top 33 in the nation by Golfstat.com, according to its Nov. 18 rankings, IU holds the seventh seed and will play No. 10 seed Wisconsin in its opening match Saturday. The winner will then move on to face No. 2 Iowa in the quarterfinals.
(02/11/11 4:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a three-month tournament layoff where a majority of practices occurred indoors, the IU women’s golf team is back in action this weekend in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.Purdue will be the host of the tournament, and will feature an 18-team field that will include seven ranked teams such as No. 1 Alabama and defending NCAA national champion Purdue.But the unranked IU team will look to improve upon its 5th-place finish in the Challenge at Onion Creek in Austin, Texas — the team’s last tournament of the fall and best finish of the season.“I think you’re going to see a much different team than what we had in the fall,” IU coach Clint Wallman said. “We’re going into a pretty loaded field (in Puerto Rico), but I expect us to play smart, be very efficient with our strokes and keep our attention on the intention.”— Nathan Brown
(02/07/11 2:27am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>More than 1,000 miles away from blustery Bloomington where snowflakes fell by the inches, the IU men’s golf team began its spring season Saturday by defeating Ball State in the Big Red Shootout at Grey Oaks Country Club in Naples, Fla.In the morning rounds, the Hoosiers failed to lose a single match.Junior Chase Wright and sophomores Brant Peaper, Corey Ziedonis and Kyle Perry won their morning matches, all claiming victories before the final hole. Wright and Peaper closed out their opponents with two holes left, but the surprise of the day, according to IU coach Mike Mayer, was the play of Ziedonis, who won his morning match after only 14 holes.“Corey had probably the best performance of any match we played all day,” Mayer said. “He was our shining star.”Co-captain Wright and the rest of the team members played strong behind him, matching their four morning wins with four in the afternoon. Wright followed up his win in the morning matches with a defeat of Ball State’s No. 1 player, senior Eric Steger, while they were without co-captain David Erdy, who was playing in an amateur event.“Chase was really strong for us. He just really was determined not to lose,” Mayer said. “That was a big thing to do without Erdy.”With the depth his team displayed Saturday, Mayer still has the burden of deciding which player will be the fifth man on the competing roster. But he stands assured of one thing.“Ball State is a good team, but we thumped them pretty good,” Mayer said. “We thumped them, we left no doubt on the golf course.”
(02/04/11 4:01am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team will travel to Fort Meyers, Fla., for its first
tournament of the spring in the Big Red Shootout against Ball State on
Saturday.
The team’s first taste of competitive golf was scheduled to be in the
Big Ten Match Play Championship in Palm Beach, Fla., from Feb. 11-12.
But on Jan. 10, coach Mike Mayer announced the Hoosiers would be
traveling to Fort Meyers for a tune-up match before they get into Big
Ten play.
Because of low temperatures and snow that covered the IU Golf Course,
the squad was forced to hit into nets indoors in the Gladstein
Fieldhouse.
“It’s been pretty tough because we’re hitting balls into a net, but me
and [David] Erdy know how good we can be,” junior Chase Wright said.
Erdy and Wright led IU in the fall, sitting atop the No. 1 and 2 spots
on the team, respectively. Freshman David Mills and sophomore Brant
Peaper round out the top four, and all four have been ranked in the top
200 collegiate golfers, according to Golfweek.com.
But the Hoosiers will be without Erdy this weekend because he is
scheduled to play in the Jones Cup, one of the top amateur golf events
in the country, Mayer said. In his absence, Mayer said he hopes to find
prospects for a “five guy” for their five-man competing roster.
“We’re ahead of the game, I think, in our guys one to four, and that’s
what fall and spring does for you,” Mayer said. “But we need someone to
step up and play five as well. We’re going to give some guys a chance to
prove that they want to be in that position.”
(01/27/11 3:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>They practice five days a week for two hours at a time.They shoot at a white net and practice their fundamentals in the gym.One of the Hoosier basketball teams? No, these are the practice conditions for the IU women’s golf team, which begins its season Feb. 13 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.Due to the winter weather that covered Bloomington with inches of snow during the previous weeks, the team has yet to practice outside since its last tournament in the fall.Despite the weather that has plagued large parts of the country, IU coach Clint Wallman said these harsh weather conditions won’t hold the team back in Puerto Rico.“The weather across the country has been pretty rugged, and I’m sure there are some teams out there playing a little or hitting balls,” Wallman said. “But for us, we can work on things that are really fundamental and very important like putting, grip, stance and posture. Fundamentals like putting are what is rustiest when you come out of winter, but it’s the fastest area where we can gain shots too.”In the span of four or five days during a tournament week, the team travels, plays a practice round and plays with three rounds of competition. The grind of the schedule has taken some getting used to for the team. In the fall, the Hoosiers often began the final day in second or third place but fell to fifth or sixth because of mistakes in the closing holes.“We’ve got to work on staying in it mentally,” junior Kristtini Cain said. “We’ve got to learn to push through wanting to be done on that last day. We have the capabilities, and we have a very strong team, but it’s just getting to the finish line and not quitting early.”By not letting the weather keep them out of their offseason rhythm, the team is striving to better prepare itself for the rigors of the five-day road trips.According to freshman Lindsay Gahm, months of practicing in Gladstein Fieldhouse have left the Hoosiers hungry for competition.“With playing in Puerto Rico, it makes it more exciting,” she said. “I’m pumped to go play, to get out of the cold weather. It’s a big tournament with Purdue; they won nationals and it’s their tournament, but I’m ready to go out and play.” Facing an in-state rival and exchanging the Midwest winter for the Puerto Rico sun have been the Hoosiers’ recipe to fuel their offseason motivation. But Gahm said that golfing outside the walls of the Gladstein Fieldhouse will not automatically translate into results. “Coach’s big quote, from Nike of course, is ‘Just Do It,’” Gahm said. “We always say we have a lot of potential to be good, but now in the spring season we have to do it instead of saying it.” And Wallman expects nothing less from his players. He said their team chemistry sets them apart from any other squad he’s ever coached, and this season he sees their progress reflected on the course.“I think you’re going to see a much different team than what we had in the fall,” Wallman said. “They’re more composed and aware of where they want to go and how they want to get there. We’re going into a pretty loaded field (in Puerto Rico), but I expect us to play smart, be very efficient with our strokes and keep our attention on the intention.”
(12/09/10 5:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After two blowout losses to the No. 7 Arizona State men’s hockey team Friday and Saturday, the IU club ice hockey team was able to fire back, seeming to grab its first win in almost two months Sunday in 9-5 game against the Sun Devils that was called due to a power outage.IU entered Tempe, Ariz., on Friday with a 10-game losing streak. The team lost by at least six goals three times during the streak, and it forfeited twice due to a suspension from play after failing to follow IU club sport tryout and practice protocol.The team began the first period Friday like a team with something to prove. Senior goalie Jason Burriss succeeded in not letting a single puck through the net against the strong Arizona State offense, but those 20 minutes would seem to be Burriss’ only shining moments in the 60-minute game. In a 10-minute stretch during the second period, Burriss gave up three goals, sending the Hoosiers into the third period down by three.The Hoosiers, however, would attempt to make a comeback. Junior Mark Huber would score the lone IU goal for the night, assisted by senior KC Madock and freshman Brian Bieschke. Burriss gave up two more goals in the closing minutes, and IU fell 5-1.Although IU suffered the loss at the hands of a top-ranked opponent — certainly not the first the club has faced this year — the defeat seemed to intimidate the squad going into its next game Saturday, as the 12-3 rout was the worst of the season.The first of these 12 goals came quickly. Just 14 seconds after the puck dropped, Burriss let the first of his 10 allowed goals hit the back of the net. IU sophomore Kyle Lewis, assisted by sophomores Nick Dobrez and Alex Santostefano for the Hoosiers, matched another Sun Devil goal, and the first period ended with IU at just a 2-1 deficit. But after breakdowns in the team schemes and bundles of turnovers, Burriss and IU allowed more goals — seven — in the second period alone than it had allowed in all but one game the entire season. Coach Jan Jas decided that he had seen enough after Burriss let yet another goal through to make the score 10-2 in the third period, and the coach substituted Ryan Israel midway through. Israel surrendered two more goals of the nine shots against him on goal. A late unassisted goal by senior Chris Benz rounded out the final score. Yet the series may be remembered for the finish the Hoosiers brought to the pair’s final game Sunday, which was brought to an early finish due to the lack of electricity.The teams battled through two-and-a-half periods of play when the lights in the Arizona State ice arena began to flicker on and off. Two short power surges, followed by a longer third, lasted for almost a half-hour, stopping play indefinitely.Up to that point, IU had found the offensive surge it was looking for, scoring nine goals in its shortened playing time despite giving up five themselves, four on Sun Devil power plays.Freshman Greg Rachke, junior Erik Skjodt and senior KC Madock each scored two goals to lead IU in its apparent 9-5 win against the Sun Devils. Sophomore Dakota Hooker led the team both in points and assists with four in each category.It does not appear that the game will be made up for the time lost due to the power outages and therefore will not have an official winner, though IU had a comfortable lead on the Sun Devils with just nine minutes to play.The team will wrap up the fall semester’s play this weekend as it plays two games against Midwest rival Kentucky on Friday and Saturday.
(12/03/10 5:24am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Being the third coach in four years in any sport at any school is certainly tough, especially one with a national championship runner-up title just three seasons ago.You know a lot is expected of you. And quick.And yet, after the IU club ice hockey team’s No. 23 ranking at the end of last season, the team decided it needed to go in a different direction. Tom Orr left as coach at the end of the season, and the team hired Jan Jas, an experienced coach and player who has competed around the globe.Jas, a native of Presov, Slovakia, learned to play hockey growing up, and as he got older and became swifter on his skates, he made the Slovak national U-16 and U-17 teams. Later, Jas moved to Canada to play junior hockey from 1995 to 1998 before his 11-year professional career both in the United States and Europe.Jas has played in several minor professional leagues in the U.S., such as the former East Coast Hockey League, the Central Hockey League, the United Hockey League and the International Hockey League. He was a member of the 1999-2000 Indianapolis Ice team that won the Central Hockey League championship, and he’s played for teams in six countries, including the U.S., Canada, Slovakia, Italy, Austria and Poland.And with all this experience, Jas said he feels that he was a great addition to the IU hockey coaching staff.“I can’t say anything about any of the other coaches that came before me,” Jas said. “But one thing I do bring to the table is experience. I’m trying to hand off the best experiences I’ve had from the best coaches I’ve had to the players I’ve got right now.”And he said he feels that his players are starting to catch on.Through a season filled with “ups and downs and several unexpected things that came our way,” Jas said he feels that, as individuals, his players’ skills have greatly improved during the few months he has worked with them.The problem, though, has been turning that improvement into wins.His team, ranked No. 27 by the American Collegiate Hockey Association, currently sits at 4-15, yet five of those losses have come by a single goal. Fourteen of the team’s games have been against opponents who either are currently ranked in the top-25 of the ACHA rankings or were when IU played them, and the team has only been able to win three of its contests against such squads.But Jas has not become discouraged from the close losses or even that the team has dropped 10 straight.“No matter who we play, whether they’re the No. 1 team in the country or not, all I want to see is the best effort from every guy I have in the lineup,” Jas said. “We’re getting better day to day, and I think we’re going to start beating some teams and begin to get recognized around the country.”Jas came into the season with numerous roadblocks as a first-year coach. He had to form a team out of a roster and recruits that he had no control over and said he has come to realize that his players are students too. Jas has had to learn to schedule around — and sometimes practice and play without — some of his best players because of their schedules in the other parts of their lives.“They’re student athletes, not just athletes, and that has been something I’ve had to get used to,” Jas said. “They have other interests, along with school work and studying, and then hockey comes in as well.”But Jas and his players got a much-needed break during Thanksgiving. While he was able to spend some time with his wife, his newborn child and his two dogs at his home in Noblesville, Ind., his players finally were able to get some time away from school and their athletic responsibilities.“I think it was a good mental break,” Jas said. “School, combined with getting slammed into the boards and the ice every day, can become grueling, and concentrating on both is hard to do.”But Jas and his players were all back in action at practice Tuesday, and later in the week, they’ll travel to Tempe, Ariz., to face the No. 8-ranked Arizona State team in three weekend games. And though Jas said he knows wins in any of these games will be tough to achieve, he knows wins aren’t everything.“It’s not always about wins and losses,” Jas said. “It’s really about helping our team get better and achieving success. I want to build a program that can attract players around the country and gradually become a better tradition here at IU.”
(11/22/10 5:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A mixture of high-flying pucks, high sticks and low blows failed to produce yet another win for the IU club ice hockey team, taking it to 4-15 and winless since a shootout win against then-No. 6 Illinois on Oct. 16.The team lost two games to Robert Morris (Ill.) this weekend, including an overtime thriller that ended when senior Daniel Abramson gave up his fourth goal of the day midway through the extra period, icing the team’s 10th straight loss of the season.After Friday’s 5-3 loss to the Eagles at Frank Southern Ice Arena, IU looked toward making changes to both its offensive and defensive strategies in hope of performing better the next day.“We tried changing up and refocusing our guys to certain roles,” coach Jan Jas said. “Our guys that were stronger offensively were assigned to strictly offensive positions in the first period, and we hoped that would get us a better chance to get off to a strong start.”And that they did. IU was the first to score when senior Chris Benz slid the puck past Eagle goalie Dan Venet in the 16th minute of the first period. Junior assistant captain Kyle Yarkie added another goal, assisted by sophomore Kyle Lewis, merely 42 seconds later. IU saw itself with a 2-0 lead, which lasted into the second period, even after Robert Morris had a goal taken away for a high stick penalty.But the No. 9 Eagles didn’t seem to panic, and what seemed to be a relaxed IU team in the second period, according to Jas, gave up three goals to the Eagles and relinquished the lead before the second period ended.“We looked too comfortable out there,” Jas said. “I think after we got ahead, we lost our focus, and that proved to be a big turn around in the game.”The team’s frustration seemed to boil over when, after play had been stopped for a reset, players from both teams began to shove back and forth in what turned into a nearly two-team fight at Robert Morris’s end of the ice. A group of players from both teams began to throw punches, and a one-on-one brawl was taken to the ice just steps behind the referees and out of their sight as they tried to break up the larger scuffle. In the end, five players from both teams were sent to the penalty box, including three from IU, and only minutes later, the Eagles used the momentum to take a 3-2 lead.The outlook seemed bleak as the Eagles kept control of the puck for most of the final period, and any shots that IU had on goal never hit the back of net. But Benz came through with his second goal of the afternoon, assisted by senior KC Madock, tying the game and eventually sending it to overtime.But Benz and the rest of the Hoosiers weren’t able to keep the momentum going, and midway through the extra period, Abramson failed to block what would be the final goal of the game, ending yet another game where they stayed close to a ranked opponent the entire 60 minutes but just couldn’t seem to pull out a win.“We really battled,” Jas said. “We got a point out of it, but unfortunately, that’s still not a win. We’ve got to remember how hard we worked just to make it to overtime, and hopefully that energy will equal a win next time.”The team takes a break this holiday weekend but the players will lace up their skates at No. 4 Arizona State on Dec. 3 and 4, hoping once again that they can grab an upset win against a highly ranked opponent.“We know this is our first year in Division I hockey,” Jas said. “We’ve just got to get back to work every day to get stronger and faster, and hopefully we’ll start winning more than we lose.”
(11/18/10 4:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After the end of its 10-day suspension from the IU Club Sports Federation for tryout and practice violations, the IU club ice hockey team traveled to Ames, Iowa for what would be the first team activity since two losses to Illinois. The players dusted off their skates, hit the ice preparing to shake off the rust of their 10-day layaway.“The guys were really anxious to get out again,” coach Jan Jas said. “We were excited to be able to get back to work and hopefully grab a few wins before the long Christmas break.”Yet, with the dust and the rust, the Hoosiers fell twice to an Iowa State team ranked No. 12 in the American Collegiate Hockey Association rankings. IU lost 7-1 Friday and 5-3 the following day.Friday, IU was able to stay within fighting distance of the Cyclones for the first period, ending the match down only 2-1. Senior KC Madock scored in the 12th minute following two quick Iowa State goals to start the game. The Cyclones took control as IU showed a lack of offensive power, and IU senior goalie Daniel Abramson allowed five more goals.Iowa State outshot IU 40-28 and had fewer men in the penalty box (6-4).“We really struggled in basic battles against Iowa State,” Jas said. “Our guys were able to keep their conditioning up on their own and were still in shape, but our rust on one-on-one battles and positioning really showed.”Though the Hoosiers did leave Iowa with another loss the following Saturday, their second performance showed more promise for a team struggling to pick up wins against top-ranked opponents week in and week out.The Cyclone offense continued to make Abramson work from the previous evening, putting 18 shots on goal within in the first period and capitalizing on two of them. This left IU at a 2-0 deficit after only one period. But IU would not let Iowa State dominate, and the team began to battle their way back as the second period began.Abramson gave up yet another goal in the fifth minute of the period, but Madock carried momentum from his goal in the previous night’s game and scored two more in the ninth and 12th minutes, respectively, leaving the Hoosiers only one goal behind with 20 minutes to play.However, Abramson gave up two more goals in the sixth and eighth minutes of the final period, and even though the Hoosiers added a late goal in the closing minutes, it proved futile against a solid Cyclone offense.With two weekend games against Robert Morris (Ill.) this weekend, the Hoosiers entered practice this week focusing on the fundamentals that caused them to come up short twice against the Cyclones.“We’ve been working hard on battle drills, putting the guys one-on-one with each other to try and get our positioning back,” Jas said. “We need to work on practicing with the right habits before this weekend, and I think we’ll be ready to go.”
(11/11/10 5:01am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU club ice hockey team was unable to make its trip to Fargo, N.D., for its two-game series against the North Dakota State men’s ice hockey team.This wasn’t because of inclement weather up north or because the Bison had to cancel the two matches. It was because the IU ice hockey team was suspended 10 days, starting Nov. 1, for failing to follow protocol set by IU’s Club Sports Federation in regard to its open tryouts and practices at the beginning of the season.On Oct. 20, the governing body for IU ice hockey was officially informed of the infraction and the team would be suspended from Nov. 1 through Nov. 11, including all team-oriented activities, such as practice and the two games against North Dakota State. The suspension was not the result of any misconduct by any of the players on the team but instead just a bureaucratic mishap, junior assistant captain and team treasurer Kyle Yarkie said.The team had no idea the penalty was coming previous to the notification from the CSF.“We felt blindsided by the suspension,” Yarkie said. “The program has never been subject to any disciplinary action until this point. The entire organization was very disappointed by the University’s decision, but we openly admitted our mistake and are ready to move on with the season.”Autumn Johnson, assistant director for club and intramural sports at IU, said the team and its executive board was very up front and honest about the infraction.“I actually learned about it from them,” Johnson said. “But once we did find out about it, we told them ‘You do know that there has to be disciplinary action that we have to take.’”The annual activation policy set by the CSF states that in order to begin every season, there has to be paperwork that every team affiliated with IU must fill out. Team members must attend officer workshops and training workshops. They also must have a coach and the number of safety officers required for their sport before they can have tryouts or practice.“And basically, the team just started their practices before all these requirements were met,” Johnson said.With the two forfeited losses because of the suspension, the team drops to 4-11 as they take on No. 13 Iowa State on Friday and Saturday in Ames, Iowa. Although the team will be coming off two losses to No. 12 Illinois two weekends ago, along with a 10-day layoff, it will get a chance to hit the ice Friday for a morning skate. The team members hope the time off will leave them with even more drive to knock off a ranked opponent.“It’s going to be hard to turn the switch back on after a 10-day break, but we’re ready to get back on the ice,” Yarkie said. “We would rather be on our regular schedule, but the team is more anxious to play than usual — that’ll give us some jump Friday night. "We’ve beaten good teams this year, but we were inconsistent through the first stretch. This weekend will be a turning point — a good chance to take two wins from a solid team in front of their fans.”
(11/04/10 4:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU club ice hockey team suffered what turned into a controversial, heated loss against No. 12 Illinois on Friday, scoring the first goal and then giving up three unanswered goals to end the game.IU entered the game having split a two-game set with Illinois two weekends ago, winning the latter in a 3-2 shutout. But Friday, IU couldn’t quite compete with Illinois’ late offensive surge.The Hoosiers were first on the scoreboard when sophomore Nick Dobrez scored in the fourth minute of the second period. And for a while, the Hoosiers seemed to have control of the game, with senior goalie Daniel Abramson blocking all the shots Illinois slapped his way. But five minutes later, Abramson finally let a goal scored by Illinois’ Mike Ursitti through, and the Hoosiers seemed to lose momentum.“I think we were better prepared, having already seen them before this season,” IU coach Jan Jas said. “But I’m really more concerned about us rather than them, and once we gave up one goal, we never recovered.”The Illini started the third period off quickly with a go-ahead goal by Sam Fatigato, and the controversy then began to unfold. The already hard-hitting game with the occasional high stick or tripping penalty became even more heated when an IU player landed on top of Illini goalie Angelo Sakellaropoulos while the Hoosiers had the puck. Before they could get a goal, officials blew the whistle to stop play while the medical staff attended to the goalie.He was brought off the ice and later diagnosed with a blown-out knee, Illinois coach Chad Cassel said. But a new goalie came on for the Illini, and they quickly struck back. And hard. Only minutes later an Illinois player fell on top of Abramson while the Illini had the puck, preventing the Hoosiers from properly protecting the goal. The puck got through, a shot by Fatigato, which was his second goal of the night. But the play didn’t stop there.Abramson, in an attempt to get up, tried to shove the Illinois player off of him, sparking an altercation. Those two and an additional IU player were shoving and throwing the occasional punch inside the net, which was up against the boards. The referees finally separated the three, and after minutes of deliberation and frequent shouting between the teams, the situation was settled, and the goal counted.“I don’t know about the rule,” Jas said. “The refs can’t do anything about it. Our goalie was just laying with a player that ended up on top of him.”And even though his players’ actions were in defense of their goalie and team, Jas said he didn’t see the actions that followed the Illini’s goal as warranted.“It’s definitely not positive, and it really only becomes a distraction for our team,” Jas said. “The only time I see where fighting could be necessary is if our goalie is really getting abused out there, but Illinois was just playing good, hard hockey.”And though it seemed that the Illini might have won easily, despite an early goal by IU, Jas still felt they had a good chance to knock off their ranked opponent the following day when the two played in Indianapolis.“We’ve got to come out and play 60 minutes of good, hard hockey,” Jas said. “We need to play till the last second of the game.”But the Hoosiers failed to grab a win in the series, losing 5-4 on Saturday, moving the team’s record to 4-9. They play again Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., both at North Dakota State.
(10/28/10 3:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With three wins against teams ranked in the top 25 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, the IU men’s club ice hockey team is off to a strong start, even though the club’s 4-7 record might say otherwise.The unranked Hoosiers have played eight of their first 11 games of the season against ranked opponents, including two games against the defending ACHA national champions, Lindenwood. In these eight games, the Hoosiers have managed to pull upset wins against No. 21 Western Michigan, No. 19 Westchester and No. 6 Illinois in a shootout win, along with a win against DePaul. The Hoosiers say they have started strong in hopes of matching their No. 23 ranking at the end of last season or even surpassing it.“We’ve made a lot of progress from last year,” senior Chris Benz said. “The win over Illinois opened the door for more wins against top-ranked opponents. We know we can be successful.”The 3-2 shootout win against Illinois on Oct. 16 avenged the Hoosiers’ previous losses to the Fighting Illini at the end of last season and from the previous night. It might have shown that they could compete with the nation’s best. The following weekend, IU lost twice to No. 1 Lindenwood, getting outscored by a combined 15-1.“We’ve got to work on putting all the things we do well sometimes together,” senior KC Madock said. “But until we do that for a full 60 minutes, it won’t matter.”New head coach Jan Jas is trying to do just that. During his first season as the Hoosiers’ head coach, Jas has focused on one simple message for his new players: hard work.“He’s challenged us to work as hard as we can and brought a lot of intensity and professionalism to our program,” junior Mack Shaughnessy said. “He tells us to work hard every moment of every game and every single practice.”And along with Jas being a first-year coach at IU, several of his players come from different schools and different hockey backgrounds, so the first few weeks have provided a learning curve for both himself and his team.“We’ve really had to focus on organization on the ice,” Jas said. “With me and all our new players, we need to all get on the same page, and with different backgrounds and coaches, that takes some time.”To improve on their organization and team chemistry, Jas has been stressing their one-on-one battles in practice and focusing on their defensive techniques, two areas where Jas said Lindenwood really outplayed the Hoosiers in both their games against the top-ranked opponent.“Lindenwood was really ready in every aspect,” Jas said. “They compete on a very high level and prepare on a very high level.”But sophomore Brian Bieschke said when it comes down to it, “we all practice the same amount of time, it’s just about who wants it more.”
(10/21/10 3:42am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When students first arrive at IU their freshmen year, they hear about how diverse the campus is; how many opportunities they have right at their feet; how they can individualize their own major or start their own club.Or change an already existing one.This year, the IU Sports Marketing Alliance instituted a name and logo change to begin a re-branding of the organization and a new committee structure to allow members to become more involved.This fall, the IUSMA began a new partnership with IU Athletics, helping the members get true hands-on experience with jobs they would do in a day-to-day sports marketing job.“It helps when they can put that on their resume,” President and junior Mike Cohen said. “This is a great opportunity for them to get experience with sales and game operations and gets them connected in case they want to pursue a career in college athletics.”When working with IU Athletics, the members participate in a Sales Academy where on Fridays members can come into the Assembly Hall Press Room and make sales calls to sell IU Athletics tickets. From these ticket sales, they get a commission in addition to real world experience. Working with IU Athletics has another side to it though. Even though the partnership was only started months ago, members of the IUSMA have already been working at IU volleyball games and running game operations.On a given night, they do anything from coming up with market plans, working the press table and reading the press release at half time.But, when it comes down to it, Cohen said the signature of the IUSMA is its networking trips, which allows select members of the group to travel to large cities across the US to meet with representatives from college and professional sports organizations as well as sports news representatives. Because the group is so diverse and from all edges of the country, Cohen said they try to spread their trips out across the U.S. so members can all get connections around where they live in case they’re interested in pursuing an internship or looking for a job close to their hometown. This year’s networking trips include visits to Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Los Angles and a recent trip to Cincinnati.In Cincinnati, the IUSMA managed meeting with a variety of Cincinnati sports officials, including the University of Cincinnati Deputy Director of Athletics, the Cincinnati Reds public relations manager and the Reds CEO Phillip J. Castellini. They toured the Cincinnati Bengals’ stadium and locker room and saw the inside of a production truck with a Fox Sports Ohio producer and IU graduate. The day was capped off with a trip back to Great American Ballpark to watch a Reds game.Senior Cade McDonald, a first-year member of the IUSMA, said the trip alone affirmed his decision of wanting to be in the sports public relations agency in the future. “In one day, I really got a feeling for what PR really is and saw what a day-to-day job in the business would be like, and it really helped to hear it straight from an actual professional,” he said.The IUSMA will sponsor more networking trips over winter break, where students will have further opportunities to network.“In this industry, it’s all about networking connections in sports, and this is a great way to find that,” Cohen said. “It’s a signature of our club. It gives them the most enjoyment, and they derive the most benefit from these networking trips.”And it’s these opportunities, senior Caleb Keller said, that set apart these IU sports marketing students from others across the country.“The sports industry is really all about knowing people,” Keller said. “You’ve got to be able to take all the experience you can. Dress up and shake hands with professionals and hear what they have to say. “Students here can get that experience now through the IUSMA, where others graduate and then have to learn afterwards.”
(10/07/10 3:06am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Waves crash and break against the shore of Lake Lemon on a peaceful, sunny afternoon. Three wakeboarders zip up and down, back and forth, a wake trailing behind them wherever they go.“We don’t like waves and wake here,” IU women’s rowing coach Steve Peterson said. “We’re a smooth water sport.”Yet the women paddle through, stroke by stroke, pushing through every tiny ripple in their path. “We really need to buckle down this year and focus more on the mental factor,” junior Alex Burkle said. “We’ve really stressed this year just to have a ‘no crap’ attitude and to get things done, and it’s nice to see for a change.” The women began their season strong in The Lemonhead Regatta on Lake Lemon in Bloomington on Sept. 25 against Louisville, a team that ended last spring ranked No. 24 in the nation.IU’s Varsity 8 tied Louisville’s Varsity 8 crew — a crew that individually ranks among the top 20 in the nation every season — with a time of 17:04 at the end of the three-mile style trial race across the lake.“We’ve really been working on confidence more than anything,” Peterson said. “And success, like our tie against Louisville, really opens people’s eyes. We’ve been a good program for the past few years, but now it’s time for us to take a big step forward.”Peterson, in his eighth year at IU and a former rowing coach at George Washington University, Rutgers and the University of Rhode Island, said he has been trying to build up the program for the past few years. He not only contacts coaches and follows high school race results, but also continues to search for his squad even after they get to IU.“Every year we send out mailings to all incoming freshman girls letting them know about our team and that we still have spots available for our novice team," Peterson said. "And even after that, the girls already on the team look out during the first week of school for anyone walking around who might look like they could help us."But in the end, Peterson and the rest of the women on the team aren’t looking for individuals; they’re looking for teams, crews of five and nine girls who can work together as one crew.“This sport is not about individuals," Peterson said. "We do lots of work to get every girl to be a leader. The captains are obvious leaders. The coxswains are the quarterbacks of the crew. The seniors are the oldest and most experienced. To single out any girl as an individual would go against the nature of the sport."Peterson and the team do work and meet together, almost year-round, to get stronger, build friendships and even help within the community.The women in have participated in activities such as the Buddy Walk, the Hoosier Hills canned food drive and the CHAMPS life skills program in years past. They also do community service together once a month.“With almost 50 girls, this is such a team sport, and we have to be able to rely on each other,” Burkle said. “Being together at practice and then at football games and for meals, it just helps you get to know your teammates and how they move.”Not to say that these women don’t spend enough time together at practice. During the season they practice twice a day — except for Wednesdays and Sundays — once at 5:45 in the morning for weight lifting or running and again at 3:45 p.m. for rowing.“It’s a training sport,” junior captain Cara Donley said. “In the offseason all we do is row and try to get in as many strokes as possible. We have a hard-working group and are doing all the work we need to be, we just need to do it the right way.”Even though it’s early in the season, the team still has their sights on championships as the end result.“Everything we do is to prepare to do well at the Big Ten and to qualify for the NCAA at the end of the season,” Peterson said.But, Peterson added, the team must build more than just strength if they want to win championships.“We’re building confidence,” sophomore captain Kathryn Laine said. “We haven’t been the most successful program in the past, but once we get our confidence and swagger, we’ll be flying.”
(09/27/10 3:47am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It didn’t matter that they donned hair ties, ponytails and sparkly red headbands. It didn’t matter that it was an exhibition game or that their first regular season game was more than four months away. These girls came ready to play. The IU women’s softball team opened its fall schedule Saturday with a double-header against IUPUI at the IU Softball Field. By the end of the day, the Hoosiers had a grand slam and a home run in one inning, a transfer debut performance and most importantly, the first two wins on their fall season record.With senior Sara Olson on the mound, the women started quickly in the first game, scoring two runs in the bottom of the second inning. But the Jaguars struck back in the top of the third with a solo home run by freshman Alicia Brewer, a graduate of Bloomington High School North. However, it would prove to be the only run either Olson or relief pitcher sophomore Jessica Dobson would need in the first game. Neither gave up another run, leading the Hoosiers to a 4-1 win. “It’s been a big thing for our whole pitching staff to not focus on the last at-bat whenever we give up a home run because it’s not important,” Olson said. “I just focus on the next pitch and the next at-bat, and I know my team has my back, my defense is there to back me up and my team can produce runs.”Olson grabbed the win while giving up four hits, only one earned run and three strikeouts and walks. Sophomore Samantha Heyman led the Hoosiers with two hits and two runs in the game one win.In the second game, Olson picked up right where she left off, only in the batter’s box. Olson knocked in four runs with a grand slam in the bottom of the first inning. Later in the frame, freshman Meaghan Murphy began her stint as a Hoosier with a two-run home run, giving the Hoosiers a 6-0 lead after one inning.And it would prove to be more than enough run support for senior Morgan Melloh, a transfer student from Fresno State Universtiy, who pitched the complete shortened five-inning game, only allowing one hit, striking out eight Jaguars in 16 batters faced and not allowing a single run in the 8-0 rout.“It was great to get out and play because every game counts out here,” Melloh said. “I felt a little nervous starting out. I wasn’t smooth and really just needed to relax out there. I think it was just the first-game jitters.”Even though the game didn’t go toward the team’s regular season record, IU coach Michelle Gardner said she saw it as a great chance to get out with competition and bring the team closer together.“It was great to get the team out there and start building our team chemistry because I think that’s a big thing, and we did it today just by being out here,” Gardner said. “These games don’t make a difference or go in the books, but they do matter to me.”
(11/19/09 1:47am)
Johnny Baker cut the tip of one of his pointer fingers off while doing stone work. He encased it in a glass keychain and is willing to sell it.
(11/19/09 1:47am)
An old, rusted printing press is out of work at Bakers Junction.
(11/19/09 1:47am)
Pictures hang crookedly inside the Bakers Junction haunted house.
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Fluorescent lights glow inside the children's area.